Sources: Reuters
Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg announces an increase in NATO personnel in Iraq from 500 to around 4,000 amid a surge in ISIL activity in the country. The training mission will also be expanded to more areas beyond Baghdad and include more Iraqi security institutions, according to Stoltenberg. 2021-02-18
The Obama Administration and Bush Administration had failed to publicly disclose up to thousands of lethal airstrikes the U.S. made in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria against ISIL, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban via U.S. Army helicopters and drones. 2017-02-5
France conducts airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq from the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle". 2016-09-30
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
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fire mortars containing an unidentified chemical agent killing one and injuring 600 in Taza Khurmatu, Iraq. 2016-03-12
Around 20 people, including civilians and Islamic State militants, are killed in airstrikes on Mosul in northern Iraq. 2015-12-21
The Islamic State reportedly seizes control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi after the retreat of government forces. 2015-05-17
ISIS burns more than 8,000 rare books and manuscripts in Mosul, Iraq. 2015-02-22
The Kurdish region’s military forces, the Peshmerga Ministry, states that over 700 Iraqi Kurds have died fighting ISIL forces since June. 2014-12-10
A hospital in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar says that 29 suspected ISIL fighters were killed in airstrikes last night. 2014-10-7