Iraqi insurgency (2017–present)

Iraqi insurgency (2017–present)
	Part of the Iraqi conflict and war against the Islamic State
	; The ISOF, which played the biggest role in curbing IS, in a military parade
Date	9 December 2017 – present; (8 years, 3 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Location	Mountainous regions of Kirkuk, Salahaddin, Diyala, and Nineveh.
Status	Ongoing as a hit-and-run campaign
Belligerents
Iraq Iraqi Federal Police; Iraqi Armed Forces Special Operations Forces (SOF); Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF); ; Islamic Resistance in Iraq; Sunni Tribal Mobilization; ; Kurdistan Region Peshmerga; ; Supported by:; Iran Rojava (cross-border cooperation since May 2018); CJTF-OIR; United States; United Kingdom; France;	Islamic State; White Flags (2017–2018)
Commanders and leaders
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani; (Commander-in-chief); Abdel Emir Yarallah; (Chief of the General Staff); Abdul Amir al-Shammari; (Minister of Interior); Thabit Al Abassi; (Minister of Defence); Karim Abboud al-Tamimi; (Counter Terrorism Service); Falih Alfayyadh; Qais Khazali; Hadi al-Amiri; Nechirvan Barzani; Sirwan Barzani; Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa; Emmanuel Macron; Theresa May; Boris Johnson; Liz Truss; Rishi Sunak; Keir Starmer; Joe Biden; Donald Trump; Lt. Gen. Paul LaCamera Former Haider al-Abadi ; Adil Abdul-Mahdi ; Mustafa Al-Kadhimi ; Qasim al-Araji ; Yassin al-Yasiri ; Othman al-Ghanmi ; Erfan al-Hiyali ; Najah al-Shammari ; Juma Inad ; Talib Shaghati ; Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi; Masoud Barzani ; Killed: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis † (Popular Mobilization Forces commander, killed in American Airstrike); Lt. Col. Zaid Jassim Al-Shammari (Commander of 3rd Infantry Regiment) ; Abu Sadiq al-Khashkhashi † (commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces's 9th brigade) ; Maj. Gen. Ali Khalifa † (commander of the PMF) ; Lt. Col. Haidar Adel Mohammad (Senior Iraqi Army Commander) † ; Col. Yasser al-Jourani ;	Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Leader of IS); Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari (Spokesmen) ; Hiwa Chor; Assi al-Qawali (POW) Killed: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi † (Former IS leader, killed in Syria); Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † (killed in Syria); Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † (killed in Syria); Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi †; Abu Ahmad al-Alwani † (killed in Iraq); Abu Yasser al-Issawi † (Former deputy leader of IS); Abu Hamza al-Qurashi † (Killed in Syria); Abu Fatima al-Jaheishi †; Zulfi Hoxha †; Bajro Ikanović †; Abu Obeida Baghdad (POW) ; Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al-Ithawi (Chief of IS in Iraq) †; Omar Jawad al-Mashhadani † (Chief IS suicide attack organiser in Baghdad); Muthanna Shataran al-Marawi † (IS military commander in charge of the Al-Rutba region; Osama al-Mulla † (IS's deputy security chief); 'Hawi the Great' † (High ranking IS Emir); Mullah Ismail Susayi (POW); Rahel Mohammad Rostam †; Abdulrahman Rahim Qader †;
Units involved
Iraq Iraqi Armed Forces Iraqi Army; Iraqi Special Operations Forces; Iraqi Air Force; Popular Mobilization Forces Badr Organization; 21st Brigade; Liwa Ali al-Akbar; ; ; Iraqi Federal Police; Islamic Resistance in Iraq Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq; Kata'ib Hezbollah; ; Sunni Tribal Mobilization; ; Kurdistan Region Peshmerga; ;	Islamic State Military of the Islamic State; ; Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
Strength
Iraq:; 530,000 personnel (including paramilitary forces)	Islamic State (ISIS): estimated that around 2,500 ISIS fighters remain active in Syria and Iraq
Casualties and losses
2,361 killed (Iraqi government claim); 12 killed, 2 HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters crashed 1 killed 3 killed	6,266 killed (Iraqi government claim)

The Iraqi insurgency is an ongoing low-intensity insurgency that began in 2017 after the Islamic State (IS) lost its territorial control in the War in Iraq, during which IS and allied White Flags fought the Iraqi military (largely backed by the United States, United Kingdom and other countries conducting airstrikes against IS) and allied paramilitary forces (largely backed by Iran).