Combatants of the Iraq War

Peshmerga Iraqi Kurdistan Multi-National Force – Iraq (04-11) Fedayeen Saddam (2003 only) The Return (al-Awda) (03-11) General Command of the Armed Forces, Resistance and Liberation in Iraq (03-11) Popular Army (03-11) New Return (03-11) Patriotic Front (03-11) Political Media Organ of the Ba'ath Party (03-11) Popular Resistance for the Liberation of Iraq (03-11) Al-Abud Network (03-11) Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (06-11) Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation (07-11) Mahdi Army (03-08) Abu Deraa's militia (03-08) Badr Organization (03-11) Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (03-11) Sheibani Network (03-11) Soldiers of Heaven (03-11) Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (06-11) Promised Day Brigades (08-11) Kata'ib Hezbollah (03-11) Popular Mobilization Forces Hezbollah Iran Al-Qaeda Jabhat Ansar al-Din The Multinational Force in Iraq is a military command led by the United States fighting the Iraq War against Iraqi insurgents.

By fall 2003 these insurgent groups began using typical guerrilla tactics: ambushes, bombings, kidnappings, sniper attacks and the use of IEDs.

Other actions include mortars and suicide attacks, explosively formed penetrators, small arms fire, anti-aircraft missiles (SA-7, SA-14, SA-16) and RPGs.

[9][10] Insurgent groups such as the al-Abud Network have also attempted to constitute their own chemical weapons programs, trying to weaponise traditional mortar rounds with ricin and mustard toxin.

[11] There is evidence that some guerrilla groups are organised on a large scale, most likely by the Fedayeen Saddam, Ba'ath loyalists, religious radicals and nationalist Iraqis that are angered by the occupation.

This violent break between Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and the rival Badr Organization of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, seen in the fighting in the town of Amarah on October 20, 2006, would severely complicate the efforts of Iraqi and US officials to quell the soaring violence.