Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 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 kama Sinjar da wasu garuruwa da dama a cikin hare-haren watan Agustan 2014.
, amma an dakatar da su ta hanyar hare-haren Sinjar da aka kaddamar a watan Disambar 2014 da sojojin Kurdawa Peshmerga da YPG suka kaddamar. Yaƙin ya ƙare tare da nasarar gwamnati a watan Disamba na 2017.