 Complete the following phrase:  The 20122013 Iraqi protests started on 21 December 2012 following a raid on the home of Sunni Fice Minister Rafi al-Issawi and the arrest of 10 of his bodyguards. Beginning in Fallujah, the protests afterwards spread throughout Sunni Arab parts of Iraq. The protests centered on the issue of the alleged sectarianism of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Pro-Maliki protests also took place throughout central and southern Iraq, where there is a Shia Arab majority. In April 2013, sectarian violence escalated after the 2013 Hawija clashes. The protests continued throughout 2013, and in December Maliki used security forces to forcefully close down the main protest camp in Ramadi, killing hundreds of civilian protesters in the process. Sunni groups, such as the Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order, took up arms in response, and joined forces with the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries GMCIR, a militant group made up of former Baathists, to conduct a military campaign against the Iraqi government. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL would later grow out of this civil conflict, escalating into a 