There were a number of groups in Iraq opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein.
They can be roughly divided into three groups:
Shi'a groups in the southKurds in the north, organizing in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991Arab opposition groups suppressed in BaghdadGroups include:
the umbrella group Iraqi National CongressThree Kurdish factions:Kurdistan Democratic PartyPatriotic Union of KurdistanKurdistan Islamic Movementthe monarchist group Iraqi Constitutional Monarchythe Iraqi National Accordthe Iran-supported Iraqi Shi'a groups Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and Islamic Dawa Partythe pro-Syrian faction of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Partythe Iraqi Communist Party
