Cika wannan jumla: A ranar 4 ga Fabrairun 2013, Wathiq al-Batat na kungiyar 'yan ta'adda ta Shi'a Hezbollah a Iraki, ya sanar da kafa rundunar Mukhtar don yakar al-Qaeda da Free Iraqi Army. A watan Agusta 2014, kungiyar ta zama ba ta da amfani, bayan
wani babban hari da ISIL a arewacin Iraki, tare da aiki a kan su yanar tsayawa.