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The Islamic State captures a range of cities inhabited primarily by Assyrian-Chaldean Christians in Northern Iraq, notably Bakhdida, Bartella, Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Karamlish and Tel Isqof; thousands flee, while many Yazidis are caught in the newly-captured city of Sinjar.
2014-08-7

The Islamic State seizes the Yazidi-dominated town of Sinjar.
2014-08-3

Forty-six Indian nurses held hostage by the ISIS for almost a month in Tikrit, Iraq, arrive at Cochin airport, Kochi, India.
2014-07-5

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is renamed The Islamic State, with a caliphate being proclaimed and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named caliph.
2014-06-29

The Iraqi Army expels militants from the centre of the city of Tikrit amongst heavy fighting.
2014-06-28

American human rights group Human Rights Watch claims that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executed at least 160 captives earlier this month in Tikrit.
2014-06-27

The Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki confirms that the Syrian Air Force bombed Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant positions in Iraq earlier in the week.
2014-06-26

Insurgents capture the town of Mansouriyat al-Jabal, containing four natural gas fields, which is about 110km northeast of Baghdad.
2014-06-26

A terrorist attack on a news complex in Tikrit, Iraq kills 5 people.
2013-12-23

A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least nine people. Three people are killed in a separate shooting in Baghdad.
2013-04-1