Insurgencies Currently Ongoing - Dissident Irish Republican Campaign, Insurgency in Northeast India, Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002-Present), Insurgen (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Dissident Irish Republican campaign, Insurgency in Northeast India, Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002-present), Insurgency in the North Caucasus, Iraqi insurgency, Iraqi insurgency (post U.S. withdrawal), Islamic insurgency in the Philippines, Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, South Yemen insurgency, Taliban insurgency. Excerpt: The Iraqi insurgency refers to an ongoing warfare in mainly central Iraq, which began after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and lasted throughout the ensuing Iraq War. The first phase of insurgency began shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and prior to the establishment of the new Iraqi government. From around 2004 to May 2007, the insurgency primarily targeted Coalition armies, while latterly, Iraqi security forces, seen as collaborators with the coalition also became targeted. With the full scale eruption of the civil war in February 2006, many militant attacks in American-controlled central Iraq had directed the Iraqi police and military forces of the Iraqi government. The attacks had continued during the transitional reconstruction of Iraq, as the Iraqi government tried to establish itself. Despite the fact that civil war violence decreased in late 2008, the insurgency kept going on since and until the United States withdrawal in 2011. Since the American withdrawal in December 2011, a renewed wave of sectarian and anti-government insurgency has swept Iraq, causing nearly 1,000 mortal casualties by March 2012. The insurgents in Iraq have been composed of a diverse mix of militias, foreign fighters, all-Iraqi units or mixtures opposing the American-led Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) and the post-2003 Iraqi government. During the height of the Iraq War in 2006 to 2008, the fighting was appearing both as armed conflict against the American-led military...