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US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Part of the War against the Islamic State (Operation Inherent Resolve), the War in Iraq (2013–2017), Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present), and the War on terror: An American F/A-18C Hornet aboard USS George H.W. Bush prior to the launch of operations over Iraq in 2014.
In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launched an offensive in Northern Iraq and pushed into Kurdish held areas of the Nineveh Governorate, capturing the city of Sinjar, among others. Some 50,000 Yazidis fled to and remained in the Sinjar Mountains, located to the city's north. [11]
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the United States military's operational name for the international war against the Islamic State (IS or ISIL), [100] including both a campaign in Iraq and a campaign in Syria, with a closely related campaign in Libya.
The Hīt shooting occurred on 30 October 2014 when insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed at least 75 members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Hīt, a town in Al Anbar Governorate. Earlier in October, the Fall of Hīt to ISIL had cut off the road leading to nearby Haditha. [1]
Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq [1] 1st Infantry Division [2] 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division (January – September 2015). [3] 2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment [2] 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division [2] 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (September 2015 – June 2016). [3]
November 7 – United States President Barack Obama orders 1,500 more troops into Iraq. November 8 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is critically wounded during a US airstrike at al-Qa'im . November 11 – A suicide bomber kills eight people in the centre of Baiji.
US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Siege of Amirli; Anbar campaign (2013–2014) B. Fall of Baiji; Battle of Baiji (2014–2015) D. Dhuluiya offensive; F.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, [1] informally known as the Iraq Resolution, is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No. 107-243, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's Iraq government in what would be known as ...