Iraqi conflict

Iraqi conflict
	Part of the war on terror
	; Present military situation in Iraq: Controlled by the federal government Controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government Controlled by the Turkish Armed Forces
Date	High-intensity hostilities:; 20 March 2003 – 9 December 2017; (14 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 5 days); Low-intensity hostilities:; 9 December 2017 – present ; (8 years, 3 months and 6 days) List of conflicts 2003–2011: Iraq War 2003: American-led invasion; 2003–2011: Occupation of Iraq; 2003–2011: Iraqi insurgency 2003–2006 phase; 2006–2008 civil war; 2007–2011: American withdrawal; ; ; 2011–2013: Iraqi insurgency 2012–2013 protests; ; 2013–2017: Renewed full-scale war in Iraq 2014–2021: American-led intervention; ; 2017–present: Islamic State insurgency ;
Location	Iraq
Result	Ongoing: Saddam Hussein is overthrown; Territorial defeat of Islamic State; The Constitution of Iraq recognition of Kurdistan Region;
Belligerents
2003–11:; United States; United Kingdom; Kurdistan Region; Republic of Iraq (after invasion, as CPA until 2004); MNF–I	2003–11:; Ba'athist IraqMain Sunni insurgents:; Al-Qaeda in Iraq; Islamic Army in Iraq; Islamic State of Iraq; Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order; Hamas of Iraq; Mujahideen Army; 1920 Revolution Brigades; Jamaat Ansar al-SunnaMain Shia insurgents:; Mahdi Army; Promised Day Brigade
2013–present:; Iraq; Kurdistan Region United States (since 2014) Iran (since 2014); Popular Mobilization Forces (since 2014) Sunni Tribal Mobilization (since 2015)	2013–present:; Islamic StateMain Sunni insurgents (2013–2015):; Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order(2013–); Hamas of Iraq; Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance; 1920 Revolution Brigades; Anbar Tribal Council
Commanders and leaders
George W. Bush; Barack Obama; Joe Biden; Donald Trump; Donald Rumsfeld; Robert Gates; Leon Panetta; Chuck Hagel; Ash Carter #; Jim Mattis; Mark Esper; Lloyd Austin; Pete Hegseth; Nouri al-Maliki; Haider al-Abadi; Adil Abdul-Mahdi; Mustafa Al-Kadhimi; Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani; Massoud Barzani Ali Khamenei X; Falih Al-Fayyadh	Saddam Hussein ; Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri #; Sheikh Abdullah Mustafa al-Naqshbandi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi X; Abu Ayyub al-Masri †; Abu Omar al-Baghdadi †; Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi X; Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi †; Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi †; Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi †; Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-QurashiMuqtada al-Sadr
Casualties and losses
	275,000–306,000 killed; 1 million IDPs, including approximately 109,000 in 21 camps in the Kurdistan Region by December 2024.

The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, followed by a series of conflicts including the protracted Iraq War (2003–2011), the Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013), the War in Iraq (2013–2017), and most recently, the small-scale Islamic State insurgency in 4 provinces located in Northern Iraq since 2017.

In the ensuing 2003–2011 Iraq War, the Multi-National Force (MNF–I) led by the United States helped to establish a Shia-dominated federal government, which was soon opposed by an Iraqi insurgency. Insurgent groups mostly fought the new government and MNF-I, but also each other, mostly along sectarian lines between Shias and Sunnis. In 2011, the MNF–I withdrew from Iraq, leading to renewed sectarian violence and enabling the emergence of the Islamic State (IS). The renewed war drew an American-led intervention in 2014. The most recent war in the country came to a close in 2017 as the Iraqi government and its allies largely defeated the IS, which was followed by a low-level IS insurgency in certain rural northern parts of the country.