Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the president of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2003.
An Iraqi insurgency began shortly after the 2003 American invasion deposed longtime leader Saddam Hussein. It is considered to have lasted until the end of the Iraq War and U.S. withdrawal in 2011. It was followed by a renewed insurgency.
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq was completed and the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled in May 2003,an Iraqi insurgency began that would last until the United States left in 2011. The 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency lasted until early 2006,when it escalated from an insurgency to a Sunni-Shia civil war,which became the most violent phase of the Iraq War.
The Iraqi Islamic Party is the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq as well as the most prominent member of the Iraqi Accord Front political coalition. It was part of the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and is part of the current government of Haider al-Abadi since 2014. Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti succeeded Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi as the party's secretary-general on 24 May 2009,who was succeeded in July 2011 by Ayad al-Samarrai.
The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni political coalition created on October 26,2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Party to contest the December 2005 general election. As a large section of Iraq's Sunnis are composed by the populous Kurds,situated in northern Iraq and locally autonomous,the party's members are mostly Arab,and as such,its political efforts have largely been focused on protecting this community's interests as opposed to Iraq's non-Sunni population. In the 2005 election,its platform called for ending the US occupation of Iraq,revision of the new Iraqi constitution,repeal of the de-Ba'athification laws that had cost many Sunnis their government jobs and the restoration of the Iraqi Army,which was dissolved after the US overthrow of Saddam Hussein and which had a Sunni dominated officer corps. Despite this,the party has maintained that it is non-secular,even though the Ba'ath Party contained many prominent Sunnis.
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki,also known as Jawad al-Maliki,is an Iraqi politician and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007. He served as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and as Vice President from 2014 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2018.
Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country,from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council of Representatives,the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.
The Sons of Iraq or al-Sahwah were a coalition in the Al Anbar province in Iraq between Sunni tribal leaders as well as former Ba'athist Iraqi military officers that united in 2005 to maintain stability in their communities. A moderate group,they were initially sponsored by General Petraeus and the US military.
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 7 March 2010. The elections decided the 325 members of the Council of Representatives who would elect the prime minister and president. The elections resulted in a partial victory for the Iraqi National Movement,led by former Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi,which won 91 seats,making it the largest alliance in the Council. The State of Law Coalition,led by incumbent Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki,was the second largest grouping with 89 seats.
The Anbar campaign consisted of fighting between the United States military,together with Iraqi security forces,and Sunni insurgents in the western Iraqi governorate of Al Anbar. The Iraq War lasted from 2003 to 2011,but the majority of the fighting and counterinsurgency campaign in Anbar took place between April 2004 and September 2007. Although the fighting initially featured heavy urban warfare primarily between insurgents and U.S. Marines,insurgents in later years focused on ambushing the American and Iraqi security forces with improvised explosive devices (IEDs),large scale attacks on combat outposts,and car bombings. Almost 9,000 Iraqis and 1,335 Americans were killed in the campaign,many in the Euphrates River Valley and the Sunni Triangle around the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
On 22 December 2011,a series of coordinated attacks occurred in Baghdad,Iraq,killing 69 people. This was the first major attack following U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
The Iraqi insurgency was an insurgency that began in late 2011 after the end of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq,resulting in violent conflict with the central government,as well as low-level sectarian violence among Iraq's religious groups.
Eifan Saadoun Al Issawi was an Iraqi politician who was killed in a suicide bombing attack on 15 January 2013.
The 2012–2013 Iraqi protests started on 21 December 2012 following a raid on the home of Sunni Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi and the arrest of 10 of his bodyguards. Beginning in Fallujah,the protests afterwards spread throughout Sunni Arab parts of Iraq. The protests centered on the issue of the alleged sectarianism of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Pro-Maliki protests also took place throughout central and southern Iraq,where there is a Shia Arab majority. In April 2013,sectarian violence escalated after the 2013 Hawija clashes. The protests continued throughout 2013,and in December Maliki used security forces to forcefully close down the main protest camp in Ramadi,leaving at least ten gunmen and three policemen dead in the process.
The Al Anbar governorate election of 2013 was held on 20 June 2013 alongside elections for Nineveh.
Beginning in December 2012,Sunnis in Iraq protested against the Maliki government. On 28 December 2013,a Sunni MP named Ahmed al-Alwani was arrested in a raid on his home in Ramadi. Alwani was a prominent supporter of the anti-government protests. This incident led to violence in Al Anbar Governorate between the Iraqi Army and a loose alliance of tribal militias and other groups fighting alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The departure of US troops from Iraq in 2011 ended the period of occupation that had begun with the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The time since U.S. withdrawal has been marked by a renewed Iraqi insurgency and by a spillover of the Syrian civil war into Iraq. By 2013,the insurgency escalated into a renewed war,the central government of Iraq being opposed by ISIL and various factions,primarily radical Sunni forces during the early phase of the conflict. The war ended in 2017 with an Iraqi government and allied victory,however ISIL continues a low-intensity insurgency in remote parts of the country.
The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Iraq.
The following lists events the happened in 2013 in Iraq.
The fall of Fallujah was a battle in the city of Fallujah in western Iraq that took place from late 2013 to early 2014,in which Islamic State (IS) and other Sunni insurgents captured the city of Fallujah. It was one of the first Iraqi cities to fall out of the control of the Iraqi Government,and resulted in the Anbar campaign.
