Sources: Reuters
The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences nineteen Russian women, six Azerbaijani women, and four Tajikistani women to life in prison for membership to ISIL. 2018-04-29
Iraqi security services announce the arrests of 20 suspected Islamic State militants in raids in Nineveh. 2018-04-7
Attacks targeting a Shi'ite Muslim gathering, a police check-point, and the family of an anti-Islamic State Sunni paramilitary leader, kill at least 55 people in Iraq. 2016-10-15
Islamic State militants attack two gas facilities northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, killing at least five people and wounding six policemen. Three assailants detonated their explosive vests and a fourth was killed in clash with security forces. 2016-07-31
The United States announces it will be sending 560 more United States Armed Forces soldiers to Iraq to help fight against ISIL. 2016-07-11
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
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captures the border crossing at Al Waleed (al-Tanf in Syria), the last remaining border crossing between Syria and Iraq controlled by the Government of Syria. ISIL reportedly advances to within 40 km of Baghdad after their victory in Ramadi. 2015-05-22
The Islamic State reportedly seizes control of the Iraqi city of Ramadi after the retreat of government forces. 2015-05-17
In Iraq, ISIL destroys the ancient city of Hatra following the destruction of Nimrud. 2015-03-7