Kammala wannan magana: Ƙungiyar Islama ta Iraki da Levant sun mamaye Iraki a 2013<unk>14 kuma sun kama mafi yawan Al Anbar Governorate, ciki har da biranen Fallujah, Al Qaim, Abu Ghraib da (a watan Mayu 2015) Ramadi, suna barin su a cikin 90% na Anbar. Tikrit, Mosul da kuma mafi yawan lardin Nineveh, tare da sassan lardunan Salahuddin, Kirkuk da Diyala, dakarun 'yan tawaye sun kwace su a cikin hare-haren Yuni 2014. ISIL ta kuma kwace Sinjar da wasu garuruwa a yankin.
A watan Agusta na shekarar 2014 ne aka fara kai hare-hare, amma an dakatar da su ta hanyar kai hare-haren Sinjar da sojojin Kurdawa Peshmerga da YPG suka kaddamar a watan Disamba na 2014. Yaƙin ya ƙare tare da nasarar gwamnati a watan Disamba na 2017.