Militancy reaches four Iraqi provinces

But this case did not last for long in a country known with its many wars and conflicts over the last three decades, where Sunni militants regained their influence over vast areas in the areas adjacent to the Syrian border , which in turn is witnessing a civil war for more than three years.

Salahuddin , Anbar , Nineveh and Dial provinces which is predominantly of Sunni have became scene of violence , bombings and car bomb attacks .

The previous provinces are linked in borders with three countries, namely Syria , Jordan and Iran and have witnessed some of the fiercest violence since last year, which increased the number of victims and injured to the highest toll within five years .

Several militant groups are active in those provinces , most notably the the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant organization, known as Daash and Naqshbandi men led by Izzat al-Duri , deputy of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein .

Another tribal group has been formed recently as the " Military Council in Anbar, " that is also fighting alongside militants after Sunnis anger have that increased against government led by the Shiite majority .

Sunnis say that the government and their leaders are targeting them unfairly through anti-terrorism laws and De-Baathifications procedures in addition to the lack of balance in state institutions .

The population in those provinces has found themselves under bombings and Islamist militants control in addition to the lack of confidence of many members of the security forces after the news talked about its dependence on Shiite militia that practice executions against the population.

But the basic dilemma of the population remains in insurgents who follow the approach of al-Qaeda and trying to impose a hard-line teachings of the Islamic law on the society as they are now targeting all who stand against them so it reached burning wheat farms , demolishing schools and blowing up homes .

Officials in Diyala have said that armed groups resort to tactics like guerrilla warfare after their inability to penetrate the security measures and the loss of many of their strongholds in hot spots .

The director of Saadia sub-district ,Ahmed al-Zarkoshi told ”Shafaq News " that " armed groups resorted during the current year to blow up houses belonging to the security forces , government officials and party figures after its inability to appear publicly and confront the security forces directly”.

Daash militants blew up nearly 30 houses in Saadia town as Zarkoshi says.

Anbar province is topping the security landscape in Iraq since late last year when Daash militants and others from clans had launched widespread attacks which took control of towns and major cities in the province , including Ramadi and Fallujah.

Later, Iraqi authorities said that they have drove the militants from all populated areas with the exception of Fallujah, which is encircled by the army and being bombed by aviation , artillery and ongoing war in their surroundings that caused thousands of casualties among civilians and driven hundreds of thousands of others to be displaced .

According to a government official in Anbar “ after the gunmen tried different types of attacks , bombings , assassinations and armed attacks in various forms today they have began collective bombing “.

She explains that " gunmen bombed ten homes and linked them with a wire upon the arrival of the army and police , they blew all of them as they had blown up 500 houses in Ramadi only ."

What made the events worse is that when militants burned wheat farms in several provinces of the country as in Diyala , Salahuddin and Babel .

It seems that Islamic militants are trying to show themselves as the strongest and that they can do what they want in order to make people succumb to them and to show the government's inability to protect them .