Flashcards: Rebel groups in Iraq

The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê‎) is a left-wing organization based in Turkey and Iraq.

The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية‎‎ Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) (commonly referred to as al-Qaeda in Iraq) was a militant Islamist group that aimed to establish an Islamic state in Sunni, Arab-majority areas of Iraq during the Iraq War.

Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة التوحيد والجهاد‎‎, Organization of Monotheism and Jihad) was a militant Jihadist group led by the Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (TQJBR) ("Organization of Jihad's Base in Mesopotamia", Arabic: تنظيم قاعدة الجهاد في بلاد الرافدين‎‎), also referred to as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, was an Iraqi Sunni Islamic Jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda.

The Badr Organization (Arabic: منظمة بدر‎‎), previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps, is an Iraqi political party headed by Hadi Al-Amiri.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK; Central Kurdish: یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان‎, translit. Yekêtiy Niştîmaniy Kurdistan; Kurmanji: یه‌کیتیا نیشتمانی یا کوردستانێ, or: Yekîtiya Nîştimanî ya Kurdistanê; is a social democratic Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR), or the Political Council of Iraqi Resistance, is an Iraqi insurgent political coalition of six major Sunni militant groups operating inside Iraq.

The Kurdistan Conservative Party is led by Zaid Surchi.

Kurdistan Islamic Group (Kurdish: کۆمه‌لی ئیسلامیی کوردستان / عێراق‎ Komelî Îslamî Kurdistan / 'Êraq; Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية الكردستانیة / العراق‎‎ al-Jumāʿa al-islāmiya al-Kurdistaniya - al-ʿIrāq) is an Islamist movement in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Kurdish: بزووتنةوي ئيسلامي لة كوردستان, or: Bizûtinewey Îslamî le Kurdistan) is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars" (Yaketi Mamostayani Ayni Islami).

Fedayeen Saddam (فدائيي صدام) was a paramilitary organization loyal to the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.

The Hezbollah Movement in Iraq (Arabic: حركة حزب الله في العراق‎‎) is a Shi'a Islamist, Iraqi political party that is part of the United Iraqi Alliance coalition.

Hamas in Iraq (Arabic: حماس العراق Ḥamās al-‘Irāq) is a Sunni militia group based in Iraq, which split from the 1920 Revolution Brigade on 18 March 2007.

Jeish Muhammad (Arabic: جيش محمد الفاتح‎‎ Jaish Muḥammad al-fātiḥ, translation: Army of Muhammad the Conqueror; JM) is an Iraqi militant group that is both politically and religiously motivated.