Islamic State Shows Some Activity In Iraq In Sep 2025

 

The Islamic State showed a little bit of life in Iraq in September 2025. After just 1 incident in August there were 3 in September. One was an old explosive and another was a bomb going off which meant there were only 2 actual attacks during the month. That is about all the insurgency is capable of as it has collapsed.

Islamic State Makes A Rare Appearance In Iraq In August

 

The Islamic State has largely disappeared from Iraq. In August it made a rare appearance.

Pro-Iran Groups Escalate Attacks Upon Kurds In July 2025

 

Iraq’s pro-Iran Resistance escalated its campaign against the Kurds in July with two dozen incidents. The Islamic State also made a rare appearance during the month.

2nd Month In A Row With No Islamic State Attacks In Iraq

May was the second month when there was no attacks by the Islamic State. This is another sign that the insurgency is over in Iraq.

Security In Iraq May 8-14, 2025

After a long hiatus there were two incidents involving the Islamic State in May.

March 2025 Only 1 Insurgent Incident In Iraq

The Islamic State continued its slow death in Iraq in March 2025. There was only one incident during the month by the militants.

Security In Iraq Mar 1-7, 2025

There was another incident by the Islamic State in Iraq during the 1^st week of March.

Review Fawaz Gerges, ISIS, A History, Princeton University Press, 2016

Gerges, Fawaz, ISIS, A History, Princeton University Press, 2016

 

The fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014 led to a wave of books attempting to explain the rise of the extremist group. ISIS, A History by London School of Economics International Relatives Professor Fawas Gerges is one of the better ones. He looks at four main factors to explain the emergence of ISIS: The fragmentation of the Iraqi state after the 2003 U.S. invasion, how ISIS grew out of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Syrian Civil War and the 2011 Arab Spring. His thesis is that the organization created a revolutionary Salafi-Jihadist movement that played upon themes of Sunni victimization and which was opposed to the Shiite and Alawite dominated governments in Iraq and Syria.

Security In Iraq Feb 15-21, 2025

The Islamic State was dormant in Iraq for three months. Then in February there has been two weeks of activity by the insurgents.

Security In Iraq Feb 8-14, 2025

The Islamic State returned to Iraq during the second week of February. This was the first time the group had been active in the country for three months.

U.S. Army in The Iraq War Volume 2 Chapter 14 From New Dawn To Zero August 2010-December 2011

The 14^th chapter in the U.S. Army’s second volume on the Iraq war covers the American withdrawal from the country in 2011. Iraq was still facing major problems with its security forces, militias, the insurgency and the struggle for political power. The Obama administration thought it could keep a stay behind force in the nation to help with stability but failed to do so.

No Islamic State Attacks In Iraq In Jan 2025

 

The Insurgency for all intense and purposes has died in Iraq. At the start of the year there were no attacks by the Islamic State in the country.

Security In Iraq Jan 15-21, 2025

The Islamic State remains dormant in Iraq during the new year. Some old ordinance exploded leading to casualties and there was a clash with the security forces during a security sweep in January.

Review Of Security In Iraq 2024

2024 saw the further decline of the Islamic State into obscurity in Iraq while the pro-Iran Iraqi Islamic Resistance launched a campaign against Israel for its war in Gaza but stopped operations in December due to foreign pressure.

Dec Sees Insurgent Violence In Iraq But No Actual Attacks By The Islamic State

There were several violent incidents in Iraq involving the Islamic State during December but none of them were actual attacks by the organization.

Security In Iraq Dec 22-28, 2024

There were two IED explosions in Iraq during the last full week of December but both were old ordinance that civilians stumbled upon.

Security In Iraq Dec 15-21, 2024

There was no political violence in Iraq for another week in December.

Security In Iraq Dec 8-14, 2024

There was only one violent incident in Iraq during the second week of December.

Security In Iraq Dec 1-7, 2024

Iraq experienced one of those rare weeks at the start of December when there was no violence by either the insurgency or the Iraqi Resistance.

Security In Iraq Nov 22-28, 2024

During the fourth week of November the Islamic State once again disappeared from Iraq while incidents by the Islamic Resistance also fell off.