Offstream
news

Polish defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announces the withdrawal of his forces from Iraq, stationed there as part of the CJTF–OIR joint task force against the Islamic State, citing the regional threat from Iran.
2026-03-20

The Iraqi Air Force carries out airstrikes on Islamic State hideouts near Hatra in northern Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, using F-16 fighter jets, killing four militants and destroying logistical facilities.
2026-02-6

Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel. The woman's captor is believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
2024-10-3

Iraq announces the execution by hanging of three members of the Islamic State for the 2016 Karrada bombing which killed hundreds of people.
2023-08-28

A report to the UN Security Council finds that the Islamic State still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, posing a serious threat to the region despite the imposition of economic sanctions.
2023-08-14

Two soldiers are killed and three others are injured during an ambush by Islamic State gunmen in Kirkuk, Iraq.
2022-12-21

Islamic State carries out a pair of attacks in the Iraqi Diyala and Kirkuk Governorates, killing twelve civilians and injuring another six.
2022-05-23

An Iraqi airstrike kills seven Islamic State members in Hatra District, Nineveh Governorate.
2022-02-8

Islamic State militants attack a village in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, killing 11 people and injuring several others.
2021-10-26

Iraq receives Ghazwan al-Zawbaee, the alleged mastermind of the ISIL suicide truck bombing that killed 340 people in Karrada, Baghdad, in 2016, which was the deadliest single-bomb attack in Iraq. Al-Zawbaee was arrested two days prior through a joint operation in a neighboring country.
2021-10-18