 Nyorai mberi kwechikamu chino - Kuratidzira kweIraq kwa2012-2013 kwakatanga musi wa21 Zvita 2012 zvichitevera kurwiswa kwakaitwa imba yemuSunni Gurukota rezvemari Rafi al-Issawi nekusungwa kwevarindi vake gumi. Kutanga muFallujah, kuratidzira kwacho pashure pakwo kwakapararira kumativi ose echiSunni echiArabhu eIraq. Kuratidzira kwacho kwakanga kwakanangana nenyaya yainzi yaitsigira zvechitendero cheMutungamiri wehurumende Nouri al-Maliki. Zviratidziro zvinotsigira Maliki zvakaitikawo pakati nepakati uye kumaodzanyemba kweIraq, uko kune maShia maArabu akawanda. Muna Kubvumbi 2013, mhirizhonga yemapoka yakawedzera mushure mekurwisana kweHawwija muna 2013. Kuratidzira kwakaenderera mberi mugore ra2013, uye muna Zvita Maliki akashandisa masimba ekuchengetedza kuvhara musasa mukuru wekuratidzira muRamadi, achiuraya mazana evapanduki vehurumende mukuita uku. Mapoka echiSunni, akadai seArmy of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order, akabata zvombo achipindura, uye akabatana neGeneral Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries GMCIR, boka revapanduki raiumbwa nevaimbova veBaathist, kuti vaite mushandirapamwe wechiuto kurwisa hurumende yeIraq. Hurumende yeIslam yeIraq neLevant ISIL yaizokura gare gare kubva mukurwa kwevagari vemo uku, ichipfuurira kupinda muhondo yakazara. 