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The Iraqi Army announces it is in full control of the Iraqi Turkmen city of Tal Afar in the Nineveh Governorate, after eight days of clashes with ISIL militants inside the city.
2017-08-27

ISIL militants reportedly blow up the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi famously proclaimed the creation of a caliphate in 2014. ISIL blames a U.S. airstrike.
2017-06-21

Two Iraqi Army pilots are killed when their Mi-24 helicopter is shot down by ISIS over the city of Mosul.
2017-04-6

The Iraqi Army retakes Mosul Museum as well as the main government building in Mosul.
2017-03-7

The Iraqi Army announces the liberation of the eastern part of Mosul following the collapse of ISIL defenses.
2017-01-18

The ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, south of Mosul, is recaptured by the Iraqi Army after heavy fighting with ISIL militants.
2016-11-13

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of the Battle of Mosul, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, to retake ISIL-held Mosul, the self-declared caliphate's capital in Iraq.
2016-10-17

The U.S. military investigates yesterday's Islamic State rocket strike near the Qayyarah Airfield West to ascertain if a chemical agent was used.
2016-09-21

According to The Pentagon, two senior ISIL leaders have been killed by a United States-led coalition airstrike in Mosul.
2016-07-2

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford makes a proposal to President Barack Obama to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, so as to help the Iraqi Army with advisors closer to the front lines and to recapture Mosul, which fell to ISIL in June 2014.
2016-03-26