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Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, an Islamic State commander for whom the U.S. Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information for, is killed during a joint United States–Iraq operation in Al Anbar Governorate. Ahmad Hamed Zwein, an Islamic State deputy commander in Iraq, is also killed in the operation.
2024-09-13

At least 15 Islamic State militants are killed and seven U.S. troops are injured in a joint United States–Iraq raid on Islamic State camps in Anbar Desert, Iraq.
2024-08-30

The United States Central Command says that a ballistic missile attack by Iranian-backed militias on Al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, has injured several U.S. troops and at least one Iraqi soldier.
2024-01-20

Two men from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on a hunting trip in Iraq are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb planted by Islamic State insurgents in Al Anbar Governorate.
2023-12-26

Two rockets land inside Al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, which houses American troops, no casualties are reported.
2023-10-24

A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter crashes near Al-Qa'im in Iraq's western Al Anbar Governorate, killing all seven people on board.
2018-03-15

An Iraqi airstrike near Al Qaim, Anbar province, Iraq, kills Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be ISIL's second-in-command.
2017-04-1

Iraqi security forces free a large number of prisoners from an underground ISIL-operated jail in the city of Hīt. Malallah al-Obeidi, a local official in the Al Anbar Governorate, put the number of freed prisoners at around 1,500, saying most of them were civilians.
2016-04-2

Iraq's military reports bombing a convoy possibly carrying Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The group was headed to a meeting in the western Al Anbar Governorate, close to the Syrian border. Eight senior ISIS figures were killed, but al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them according to Iraqi officials.
2015-10-11

Fierce clashes in Iraq's Anbar province as Islamic State captures three villages near the provincial capital Ramadi.
2015-04-15