The Iraqi Armed Forces launch an offensive to recapture the last ISIL stronghold in Iraq, Rawa. 2017-11-11
According to security sources, dozens of people are killed in an overnight attack in Tikrit by suspected ISIL militants. 31 bodies were taken to a hospital, according to a local doctor, while more continued to be found by morning. 2017-04-5
Four bombs kill two people and injured another seven in Sha'ab, a neighbourhood of Baghdad. 2016-12-1
The ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, south of Mosul, is recaptured by the Iraqi Army after heavy fighting with ISIL militants. 2016-11-13
ISIL recaptures the western Iraqi town of Ar-Rutbah, which it previously withdrew from in May. 2016-10-24
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant bans burqas in northern Iraq after a series of fatal attacks on its members by veiled women. 2016-09-6
Iraqi Armed Forces announce the complete recapture of the city of Ramadi in western Iraq's Anbar Province from the Islamic State, along with the reopening of the Ramadi-Baghdad road. 2016-02-9