Di Irak utara dan barat, petempur Al-Qaeda melancarkan perjuangan mereka melawan pemerintah dukungan AS, sementara di bagian tengah dan selatan milisi Syiah berjuang mencapai kemenangan dan kekuasaan atas sumber minyak.
In western and northern Iraq, Al-Qaeda militants pursue their brutal insurgency against the US-backed government, while in the south and centre Shiite militias jostle for supremacy and control of oil resources.