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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.
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.
8 August: The US asserted that the systematic destruction of the Yazidi people by the Islamic State was genocide. [135] The US military launched indefinite airstrikes targeting Islamic State fighters, equipment and installations, with humanitarian aid support from the UK and France, in order to protect civilians in northern Iraq.
The war resulted in the forced resignation of al-Maliki in 2014, as well as an airstrike campaign by the United States and a dozen other countries in support of the Iraqi military, [49] participation of American and Canadian troops (predominantly special forces) in ground combat operations, [50] [51] a $3.5 billion U.S.-led program to rearm the ...
This is the Military intervention against ISIL ground order of battle, which lists the American forces and allies aerial assets that have taken part in the Military intervention against ISIL between June 2014 and the present day.
The U.S. and Iraq on Friday announced an agreement to end the anti-ISIS coalition military presence in Iraq that over the next two years, a move that could lead to a reduction of the 2,500 ...
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.
In his account of a 2003 combat deployment in Iraq, Soft Spots, Marine Sgt. Clint Van Winkle writes of such an incident: A car carrying two Iraqi men approached a Marine unit and a Marine opened fire, putting two bullet holes in the windshield and leaving the driver mortally wounded and his passenger torn open but alive, blood-drenched and ...