[9] Sadiyah was used as winter pasture by the Kurdish Kalhor and Sanjâbi tribes who would pay pasturage dues to the Ottomans.

[10] As part of the revolt of 1920, Sadiyah fell on 14 August 1920 largely due to the work of the Kurdish Dilo tribe.

[7] Peshmerga was deployed to the town in 2011 after request from the federal government in Baghdad to counter the attacks on the local Kurds.

[18] The dire security after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, forced more Kurds to leave the town.

[19][7] In the early hours of 13 June, ISIS seized Sadiyah, after Iraqi security forces had abandoned their posts.