Anbar Tribal Council

Anbar Tribal Council
Founding leaderAli Hatem al-Suleiman
Dates active2013–2015
IdeologySunni Islamism
Anbar regionalism
Arab-Islamic nationalism
Anti-Shia sentiment

The Anbar Tribal Council (Arabic: مجلس عشائر الأنبار), also called the Tribal Revolutionaries (ثوار العشائر), was an armed group and an alliance of Iraqi Sunni Arab tribes formed in December 2013 in Al-Anbar Governorate during the Iraq war.

History

The group was formed in December 2013, at the beginning of the Anbar campaign against the Shia government of Nouri al-Maliki.[1][2] On January 4, 2014, the group fully seized Fallujah and parts of Ramadi.[3][4][5]

While most other Sunni groups aimed to overthrow the Iraqi government, the Anbar Tribal Council was focused on capturing Anbar and establishing their own region without Iraqi government interference.[6]

The group fought in the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, and its founder and leader Ali Hatem al-Suleiman claimed that the Islamic State only constituted 5–7% of the anti-government forces. He also claimed that his group was able to defeat the Islamic State were the Maliki government to withdraw government forces from north and north-central Iraq.[7] However, he also claimed that his group would not fight the Islamic State until Maliki was out of office and Sunnis were given their rights.[8]

The group dissolved in early 2015, after the Battle of Ramadi, in which the Islamic State captured all of its land and destroyed its manpower. Ali Hatem al-Suleiman fled to the autonomous Kurdistan Region.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "RFI : Irak: avec l'assaut sur Fallouja, le risque de l'amalgame". RFI. January 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hélène Sallon (23 June 2014). "Le Monde : Nouri Al-Maliki en sursis à la tête de l'Irak". Le Monde.
  3. ↑ AFP (4 January 2014). "L'Irak en ordre de bataille pour reprendre Fallouja". Libération.
  4. ↑ "Des insurgés sunnites repoussent l'armée irakienne en Anbar". zonebourse.com. January 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Offensive de l'armée irakienne dans la province d'Anbar". L'Obs.
  6. ↑ Sowell, Kirk H. (15 January 2014). "Maliki's Anbar Blunder". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 5 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  7. ↑ Koplowitz, Howard (16 June 2014). "Iraq Crisis Update: ISIS Seizes Tal Afar Amid Conflicting Reports Of Clashes Near Baghdad [MAP]". International Business Times.
  8. ↑ Brown, Matt (16 June 2014). "Execution images underline Iraq's deepening crisis". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ↑ Malkasian, Illusions of Victory, p. 182.
  10. ↑ Shelly Kittleson, Iraqi militia power plays bring back outcast Sunni leader, Al-Monitor, 9 mai 2022.
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