Jalawla (Arabic: جلولاء‎‎, also known as Gulala, or mistranslated as Jalula) is a town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq. It is located on the Diyala River 8 km north of As-Sadiyah. In 2013 it had an estimated population of some 80,000 people. According to a tribal elder, the town is approximately 80% Sunni Arab, 10% Feyli Kurd and 10% Sunni Turkmen. From August to November 2014 the city was mostly under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and local Arab tribes which seized the town from the Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) in Kurdistan Regional Government in August 2014.