 U.S. Marines had stayed behind to provide the Iraqi Army with additional perimeter security until a time TBD.On 16 April 2009, a suicide-bomber dressed as an Iraqi 1st Lieutenant detonated a bomb among a group of Iraqi soldiers at a canteen.As of 2015, Habbaniya serves as a base for Shia militias, the Iraqi army and its American trainers, in their ongoing campaign against ISIS.