Violence Almost Disappears In Iraq In March 2024

There was barely any violence from the insurgency or pro-Iran groups in March 2024. The Islamic State is disappearing and a ceasefire holds against the United States.

 

In March there were only 2 security incidents reported in Iraq.

 

On February 27 a group of Islamic State members was caught by the security forces attempting to infiltrate into Iraq from Syria in the Qaim district of western Anbar. That led to a short gun battle. IS has most of its men and material in Syria and relies upon them being smuggled into Iraq to maintain itself.

 

1 incident in a month by the insurgency is the lowest amount of violence ever recorded in Iraq. The previous low was 2 incidents in October 2023.

 

For the first three weeks of February there were no attacks by IS. A similar spate of inactivity occurred in October 2023 when there were also three weeks of no incidents. That was followed by two weeks in November with no activity. From December to January it appeared the militants were trying to make a little revival with several weeks of 4 incidents each but that then fell off showing that the organization continues its slow death in the country.

 

There was one reported drone strike on Israel by pro-Iran groups on February 5. After that those factions went silent thanks to a ceasefire brokered by Iran and Prime Minister Sudani. Tehran was afraid it would be attacked after its allies killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. Sudani also wanted to give negotiations a chance to get the Americans to depart Iraq. So far that agreement has held. This highlights the fact that these groups don’t really care about Palestinians or the Gaza War and are following their own agendas.

 

Groups associated with Iran began attacks in October with 15 in response to the Gaza War. There were 29 attacks in November, 26 in December and 28 in January before the halt in February.

 

Security Incidents In Iraq By Province

Province	Feb 1-7	Feb 8-14	Feb 15-21	Feb 22-29	Totals
Anbar	-	-	-	1	1
Israel	1 Pro-Iran	-	-	-	1 Pro-Iran
TOTAL	1 Pro-Iran	-	-	1	2/1 Pro-Iran

 

Casualties In Iraq By Province

Province

Feb 1-7

Feb 8-14

Feb 15-21

Feb 22-29

Totals

 

Security In Iraq 2022-23

Week	Security Incidents (Total/By IS)	Dead (Total/By IS)	Wounded (Total/By IS)
JAN 2022	87/41 Pro-Iran	33	59
FEB	42/14 Pro-Iran	10	29
MAR	46/12/1 Pro-Iran	19	21
APR	111/22 Pro-Iran	34	103
MAY	73/13 Pro-Iran	41	51
JUN	40/14 Pro-Iran	7	33
JUL	43/6 Pro-Iran	33	54
AUG	57/7/1 Pro-Iran	24	54
SEP	41/1/3 M	9	64
OCT	28/2/3 M	17	45
NOV	23	10	28
DEC	33/1 Pro-Iran	42	38
JAN 2023	29/4 Pro-Iran	12	15
Feb 1-7	6/2 Pro-Iran	1	5
Feb 8-14	1	-	2
Feb 15-21	4	4	8
Feb 22-28	9/1 Pro-Iran	7	3
FEB	20/3 Pro-Iran	12	18
Mar 1-7	3	10	4
Mar 8-14	2	2	1
Mar 15-21	2	1	3
Mar 22-28	1	2	-
Mar 29-31	1	3	-
MAR	9	18	8
Apr 1-7	5	1	7
Apr 8-14	4	-	1
Apr 15-21	5	3	-
Apr 22-28	2	1	-
Apr 29-30	1	1	-
APR	16	6	8
May 1-7	2	1	1
May 8-14	6	4	3
May 15-21	3	2	6
May 22-28	3	1	3
May 29-31	2	-	3
MAY	15	8	14
Jun 1-7	-	-	-
Jun 8-14	4	7	4
Jun 15-21	2	1	2
Jun 22-28	4	2	4
Jun 29-30	-	-	-
JUN	10	10	10
Jul 1-7	1	-	-
Jul 8-14	3	2	1
Jul 15-21	2	-	1
Jul 22-28	2	-	2
Jul 29-31	3/2 Pro-Iran	-	-
JUL	11/2 Pro-Iran	2	4
Aug 1-7	4	-	4
Aug 8-14	2	1	3
Aug 15-21	2	-	5
Aug 22-28	2	-	2
Aug 29-31	3/1 Pro-Iran	1	9
AUG	13/1 Pro-Iran	2	23
Sep 1-7	1	-	1
Sep 8-14	1	1	-
Sep 15-21	2	-	4
Sep 22-28	1	1	1
Sep 29-30	-	-	-
SEP	5	2	6
Oct 1-7	-	-	-
Oct 8-14	-	-	-
Oct 15-21	7 Pro-Iran	-	-
Oct 22-28	7/5 Pro-Iran	-	8
Oct 29-31	3 Pro-Iran	-	-
OCT	17/15 Pro-Iran	-	8
Nov 1-7	11/9	4	2
Nov 8-14	12/10	-	3
Nov 15-21	6 Pro-Iran	-	8 Amer
Nov 22-28	4 Pro-Iran	-	-
Nov 29-30	2	11	16
NOV	35/29 Pro-Iran	15	29
Dec 1-7	10/8 Pro-Iran	1	9
Dec 8-14	8/6 Pro-Iran	-	2
Dec 15-21	6/2 Pro-Iran	1	2
Dec 22-28	7/6 Pro-Iran	-	3 US
Dec 29-31	4 Pro-Iran
DEC	35/26 Pro-Iran	2K	16W
Jan 1-7	10/6 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian	5	9
Jan 8-14	7/3 Pro-Iran	3	3
Jan 15-21	10/6 Pro-Iran	6	6
Jan 22-28	11/10 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jan 29-31	3 Pro-Ira	-	-
JAN	42/28 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian	14	20
Feb 1-7	1 Pro-Iran	-	-
Feb 8-14	-	-	-
Feb 15-21	-	-	-
Feb 22-29	1	-	-
FEB	2/1 Pro-Iran	-	-

 

SOURCES

 

Buratha News, "The Islamic Resistance attacked a target in the city of Eilat with drones," 2/5/24

 

NINA, "The Popular Mobilization Forces repel an attack by ISIS on the Iraqi-Syrian border," 2/27/24