United Jihad Factions Council

The United Jihad Factions Council is a confederation of Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups, including the Islamic Army and Hamas of Iraq, that now cooperate with the U.S. Army and the Iraqi Army.

The group fought alongside coalition forces during the Battle of Baqubah.^[1]

References

Anderson, John Ward (20 June 2007). "Dozens of Insurgents Killed in Iraq Offensive"; Washington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2007.

Militias
and others

Shia Islamic militias	Mahdi Army Abu Deraa's Mahdi Army faction Badr Organization Sheibani Network Soldiers of Heaven Special Groups (Iraq) Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Promised Day Brigade Kata'ib Hezbollah

Sunni Islamic militias	Awakening groups 1920 Revolution Brigade Jaish al-Rashideen Islamic Army in Iraq Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance Hamas of Iraq

Kurdish militias	Peshmerga Kurdistan Workers' Party Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Party of Free Life of Kurdistan

Turkmen militias	Iraqi Turkmen Front 16Brigade 52nd Brigade 92nd Brigade Brigade of Imam Hussein Sayyid al-Shuhada Bashir Regiment

Christian militias	Qaraqosh Protection Committee Nineveh Plain Protection Units Dwekh Nawsha Syriac Military Council Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam

Yazidi militias	Sinjar Alliance: Sinjar Resistance Units, Êzîdxan Protection Force, Êzîdxan Women's Units

Nationalist Salafis	Mujahideen Army Mujahideen Battalions of the Salafi Group of Iraq Islamic Salafist Boy Scout Battalions Mohammad's Army

Salafi Jihadists	Ansar al-Islam Black Banner Organization Abu Theeb's group Jaish Abi Baker's group Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Mujahideen Shura Council Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad Wakefulness and Holy War

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