Sources: Reuters
Security forces kill at least four leaders from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Samarra District, Iraq. 2020-09-11
A U.S. federal judge blocks until June 20 the release in Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled territory of a dual-nationality Saudi-American citizen alleged to have joined ISIL. The man, who is now held for nine months in Iraq, was planned to be released by the U.S. military – with a new cell phone, some food and water and $4,210 in cash, but with no identification – as soon as tomorrow. 2018-06-8
The U.S. Department of Justice announces it intends to appeal yesterday's ruling that an unnamed detained ISIL suspect in the custody of U.S. troops in Iraq cannot be transferred to an unnamed foreign nation. The man has dual U.S.-Saudi Arabian citizenship. 2018-04-20
ISIL claims responsibility as a response to take back launching of its stronghold Mosul by the Iraqi forces. 2016-10-15
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
A senior Iraqi intelligence official, who is also a Syrian activist leader, says Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant commander Omar al-Shishani (Omar the Chechen, real name Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili) died of wounds suffered in a March 4 U.S. airstrike near the Syrian town of Al-Shaddadah. The U.S. State Department offered up to $5 million for information on his whereabouts. Amaq news agency, which supports ISIL, says Shishani is neither dead nor hurt. 2016-03-15
Around 20 people, including civilians and Islamic State militants, are killed in airstrikes on Mosul in northern Iraq. 2015-12-21
Russia says it would consider extending its air-strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria to Iraq if it receives such a request from the Iraqi government. Iraqi President, Fuad Masum has recently said he would welcome this assistance. 2015-10-6
France says it has carried out its first air-strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant within Syria, destroying a training camp in the east of the country. Previously, France had only carried out air-strikes in Iraq with consent of the Iraqi government. 2015-09-27
Iraqi helicopters destroy a convoy of ISIL fuel tankers inside Syrian territory. 2014-04-27