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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.
Operation Inherent Resolve: 2014 – present: 10.6 years (10 years, 7 months) 9: Northwest Indian War: 1785 – 1795: 10 years: 10: Iraq War: 2003 – 2011 [15] [16 ...
Combined Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant (CSOJTF-Levant) was initially known as Special Operations Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (SOJTF-OIR), formed in 2015 as a joint special operations task force that is regarded as spearheading CJTF-OIR's campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. [39]
The operation resulted in his death when he tried to engage U.S. forces in combat and the capture of his wife Umm Sayyaf. The operation also led to the freeing of a Yazidi woman who was held as a slave. About a dozen ISIL fighters were also killed in the raid, two U.S. officials said.
15 October: The US anti-ISIL operation was named "Operation Inherent Resolve". [299] The US launched 18 airstrikes against ISIL in Kobani. [300] [301] Forty-six captives were killed by ISIL in Mosul. [302] 16 October: By this date, ISIL had been driven out of most of Kobani. [303]
On 15 June 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama ordered United States forces to be dispatched in response to the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) of the Islamic State (IS), as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. At the invitation of the Iraqi government, American troops went to assess Iraqi forces and the threat posed by ISIL. [111] [112]
Tristen Wright, 28, of Palm Bay, Fla., was assigned to the 27th Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron and was deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, Cannon reported. The ...
In March 2020, the U.S.-led coalition, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR), began transferring control over a number of military installations back to Iraqi security forces, citing developments in the multi-year mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). By 4 April 2020, four bases had ...