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A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter crashes near Al-Qa'im in Iraq's western Al Anbar Governorate, killing all seven people on board.
2018-03-15

The Iraqi Armed Forces enter the town of Al-Qa'im, close to the border with Syria. Al-Qa'im is one of the last towns in Iraq still held by ISIL.
2017-11-3

Denmark's government announces it will be withdrawing its seven F-16 fighter jets from military operations against ISIL in Iraq and Syria from mid-December.
2016-12-2

France conducts airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq from the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle".
2016-09-30

The United States Air Force deploys B-52 bombers to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to join operations against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. This is the first time they have been stationed in the Middle East since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
2016-04-9

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

France's Air Force carries out its first cruise-missile strikes targeting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant installations in Iraq, including “a training center and logistical depot,” according to the French defence ministry.
2015-12-15

France announces that it will deploy its aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" to the eastern Mediterranean to boost its efforts against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq and Syria.
2015-11-5

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

Fierce clashes in Iraq's Anbar province as Islamic State captures three villages near the provincial capital Ramadi.
2015-04-15