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This article contains the timeline of events for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS), also self-proclaimed as the Islamic State (IS), from its establishment in April 2013 to the present.

For earlier events see Islamic State of Iraq § Timeline.

2013 events[edit]

  • On 8 April 2013, having expanded into Syria, the group Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) adopted the name Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.[1][2][3]
  • Starting in April 2013, ISIL made rapid military gains in northern Syria, where according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, it was "the strongest group".[4]
  • 11 May: Two car bombs exploded in the town of Reyhanlı in Hatay Province, Turkey. At least 51 were killed and 140 injured.[5] The attack was the deadliest single act of terrorism ever to take place on Turkish soil.[6] Along with the Syrian intelligence service, ISIL was suspected of carrying out the attack.[7]
  • In July, the Free Syrian Army's battalion chief Kamal Hamami—better known by his nom de guerre Abu Bassir Al-Jeblawi—was killed by ISIL's Coast region emir in Latakia's rural northern highlands. Al-Jeblawi was travelling to visit the Al-Izz Bin Abdulsalam Brigade operating in the region when ISIL members refused his passage.[8]
  • On 22 July, ISIL organised a mass break-out of its members being held in Iraq's prison in Taji and Abu Ghraib prison, freeing more than 500 prisoners, many of them veterans of the Iraqi insurgency (2003–11)[9][10] or senior commanders of ISIL.[11][12] ISIL described the operation as involving 12 car bombs, numerous suicide bombers and mortar and rocket fire.[11][12] It was described as the culmination of a one-year campaign which was launched by ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.[13]
  • In early August the Menagh Air Base was captured by forces including ISIL.[14]
  • In September, members of ISIL killed the Ahrar ash-Sham commander Abu Obeida Al-Binnishi, after he had intervened to protect a Malaysian Islamic charity; ISIL had mistaken its Malaysian flag for that of the United States.[15][16]
  • Also in September, ISIL overran the town of Azaz, taking it from an FSA-affiliated rebel brigade.[17] ISIL had attempted to kidnap a German doctor working in Azaz.[18] In November 2013, Today's Zaman, a newspaper in Turkey, reported that Turkish authorities had detailed information on ISIL's plans to carry out suicide bombings in Turkey.[19]
  • From 30 September, several Turkish media websites reported that ISIL had accepted responsibility for the 11 May attack and had threatened further attacks on Turkey.[20][21][22][23]
  • In December, there were reports of fighting between ISIL and the Sunni, Salafist rebel group, Ahrar ash-Sham, in the town of Maskanah, Aleppo.[24]
  • In December, ISIL began an offensive in Al Anbar province in Iraq, changing the insurgency there into a regional war.[citation needed]

2014 events[edit]

Index: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

January 2014[edit]

  • 3 January: ISIL proclaimed itself as an Islamic state in Fallujah.[25] After prolonged tensions, the newly formed Army of Mujahedeen, the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic Front launched offensives against ISIL in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Idlib. These groups, proclaiming a "second revolution", attacked ISIL in many village areas, attacking up to 80% of those in Idlib and 65% in Aleppo.[26]
  • 4 January: Fallujah was captured by ISIL after several days of fighting which left more than 100 dead.[27][28] ISIL claimed responsibility for the car-bomb attack on 2 January that killed four people and wounded dozens in the Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, a town that acts as headquarters to Hezbollah.[29][30]
  • 6 January: Syrian rebels managed to expel ISIL from the city of Ar-Raqqah, ISIL's largest stronghold and the capital of the Ar-Raqqah province.[31]
  • 8 January: Islamists of several Syrian rebel brigades expelled most ISIL forces from the city of Aleppo.[32] However, ISIL reinforcements from Deir ez-Zor province managed to retake several neighbourhood of the city of Ar-Raqqah.[33] By this date ISIL had captured Al-Karmah, Hīt, Khaldiyah, Haditha and Al Qaim and several smaller towns in Anbar province, while fighting raged in Ramadi and Abu Ghraib.[34][35][36][37][38] By mid-January ISIL fighters had retaken the entire city of Ar-Raqqah, while rebels expelled ISIL from the city of Aleppo and the villages west of it.[citation needed]
  • 13 January: Fallujah Dam was taken by pro-government tribes. In the previous week ISIL militants had used the dam to flood area around the city with the waters of the Euphrates which also caused the lowering of water levels in the southern provinces.[39]
  • 16 January: The Iraqi Army and allied Sunni tribes recaptured Saqlawiyah from ISIL.[40]
  • 22 January: Over 50 ISIL militants were killed by Iraqi Air Force strikes in Anbar province.[41]
  • 25 January: ISIL announced the creation of its new Lebanese arm, pledging to fight the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.[42]
  • 29 January: Turkish aircraft near the border fired on an ISIL convoy inside Aleppo province in Syria, killing 11 ISIL fighters and one ISIL emir.[43][44]
  • 30 January: ISIL fired on border patrol soldiers in Turkey. The Turkish Army retaliated with Panter howitzers and destroyed the ISIL convoy.[45][46][47] Iraqi forces and their tribal allies recaptured Albu Farraj and Al-Nasaf near Ramadi.[48]
  • In late January, Haji Bakr, ISIL's then second-in-command, was reported to have been assassinated by Syrian militants. Haji Bakr had previously been head of al-Qaeda's military council and a former military officer in Saddam Hussain's army.[49] They were unaware that they had killed the strategic head of the group calling itself "Islamic State".[50]

February 2014[edit]

  • 3 February: al-Qaeda's general command broke off its links with ISIL, reportedly to concentrate the Islamist effort on unseating President Bashar al-Assad.[51]
  • By mid-February, al-Nusra Front had joined the battle in support of rebel forces, and expelled ISIL forces from the Deir ez-Zor province in Syria.[52]
  • 19 February: An ISIL leader, Abd Khaliq Mahedi, surrendered to the Chairman of Sons of Iraq Council, due to disagreement with other ISIL leaders on the killing of Iraqi soldiers and bombing of civilian houses.[53]
  • 23 February: ISIL carried out a suicide attack in Aleppo, killing a commander of Ahrar ash-Sham and six other members of the group.[citation needed]
  • 28 February: The pro-government Sunni tribal Sheikh and councilman, Fleih al-Osman, and six of his men were killed by a suicide bomber in Haditha.[54]

March 2014[edit]

  • By March, ISIL forces had fully retreated from Syria's Idlib province after battles against the Syrian rebels.[55][56]
  • 4 March: ISIL retreated from the Turkey border town of Azaz and nearby villages, choosing instead to consolidate around Ar-Raqqah, in anticipation of an escalation of fighting with al-Nusra.[57]
  • 8 March: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of openly funding ISIL.[58][59]
  • 15 March: The number of internally displaced persons in Anbar province, especially from Fallujah and Ramadi, reached 300,000. The number of people recorded killed by this date was 336, with 1,562 more wounded.[60]
  • 16 March: Iraqi Security Forces recaptured Ramadi and parts of Fallujah.[61]
  • 20 March: In Niğde city in Turkey, three ethnic Albanian[62] members of ISIL[63] opened fire while hijacking a truck, killing one police officer and one gendarmerie officer and wounding five people.[64][65] Shortly after their arrest, Polis Özel Harekat teams launched a series of operations against ISIL in İstanbul. Two Azerbaijanis were arrested.[66]

April 2014[edit]

  • 27 April: Iraqi helicopters reportedly destroyed an ISIL convoy inside Syria. This may be the first time that Iraqi forces have struck outside their country since the Gulf War.[67]

May 2014[edit]

  • 1 May: ISIL carried out a total of seven public killings in the city of Ar-Raqqah in northern Syria.[68] Pictures that emerged from the city show how ISIL had been carrying out public crucifixions in areas under its control.[69] In most of these crucifixions, the victims were shot first and their bodies were then displayed,[70] but there were also reports of crucifixions preceding the victims being shot or decapitated.[71]
  • 9–18 May: The Iraqi Army retook 16 villages and towns around Fallujah.[72]

June 2014[edit]

  • In early June, ISIL was reported to have seized control of most of Mosul, the second most populous city in Iraq, a large part of the surrounding Nineveh province, and the city of Fallujah.[73] ISIL also took control of Tikrit, the administrative centre of the Salah ad Din Governorate,[74] with the ultimate goal of capturing Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.[75] ISIL was believed to have only 2,000–3,000 fighters up until the Mosul campaign, but during that campaign, it became evident that this number was a gross underestimate.[76]
  • Also in June, there were reports that a number of Sunni groups in Iraq that were opposed to the predominantly Shia government had joined ISIL, thus bolstering the group's numbers.[77][not in citation given][78] However, the Kurds—who are mostly Sunnis—were unwilling to be drawn into the conflict, and there were clashes in the area between ISIL and the Kurdish Peshmerga.[79][80]
  • 5 June: ISIL militants stormed the city of Samarra, Iraq, before being ousted by airstrikes mounted by the Iraqi military. According to army officials, 12 policemen, 80 ISIL militants and several civilians were killed.[81] The Commander of the Nagshabandiya Movement, Khalil al-Hayeeti, was killed in a clash with government forces in Anbar province.[82] Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, the chief of the general military council for the Iraqi provinces of the Islamic state, was killed is Mosul by the Iraqi security forces.[83]
  • 6 June: ISIL militants carried out multiple attacks in the city of Mosul, Iraq.[84][85]
  • 7 June: ISIL militants took over the University of Anbar in Ramadi, Iraq, killed guards and held 1,300 students hostage, before being ousted by the Iraqi military.[86][87]
  • 8 June: An ISIL bombing in Jalula killed 18 members of the Kurdish security forces.[88] ISIL forces captured Hawija, Zab, Riyadh, Abbasi, Rashad and Yankaja near Kirkuk.[89]
  • 9 June: Mosul fell to ISIL control. The militants seized control of government offices, the airport, and police stations.[90] Militants also looted the Central Bank in Mosul, reportedly absconding with US$429 million.[91] More than 500,000 people fled Mosul to escape ISIL, including 400 Christian families, nearly the entire Christian element of the population of Mosul.[92][93] Mosul is a strategic city as it is at a crossroad between Syria and Iraq, and poses the threat of ISIL seizing control of oil production.[76] At the same time, hundreds of Christian families fled from the Nineva Plains in face of the ISIL advance.[92] 15 captured Iraqi soldiers were killed while captive by ISIL near Kirkuk.[94]
  • 10 June: ISIL killed 670 Shia inmates of Badush prison in Mosul.[95][96] The 4th-century Mar Behnam Monastery was seized by ISIL, which forced its monks to leave without taking anything with them.[97] Sixty UN staff were evacuated from Baghdad to Jordan.[98]
  • 11 June: ISIL seized the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul, and kidnapped the head of the diplomatic mission and several staff members. Baiji, Iraq was captured by ISIL forces, except for its surrounded oil refinery.[99][100] Tikrit also fell to ISIL, which attacked Samarra as well, without succeeding in conquering it.[101][102][103] 46 Indian nurses were stranded in Tikrit[104] (they were released and flown back to India at the beginning of July[105])
  • 12 June: ISIL captured ten towns in Saladin Province and routed an Iraqi Border Patrol battalion heading towards Sinjar with 60 trucks.[106] Some of the 4,000–11,000 cadets and soldiers who had been ordered to leave Camp Speicher base were captured by ISIL; of these 1,095–1,700 were killed over the next three days.[107] Human Rights Watch issued a statement about the growing threat to civilians in Iraq.[108] Twelve imams were killed in Mosul for refusing to swear loyalty to ISIL.[109] The imam of the Grand Mosque of Mosul, Muhammad al-Mansuri, was killed for the same reason.[110][111] ISIL laid siege to the town of Amirli, where 13,000 Turkmen civilians were trapped.[92]
  • 13 June: ISIL captured two towns in Diyala Province and several villages around the Hamrin Mountains.[112][113] Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed alarm at reports that ISIL fighters "have been actively seeking out and killing soldiers, police and civilians, whom they perceive as being associated with the government".[114] Kurdish Peshmerga forces occupied the city of Kirkuk, abandoned by the retreating Iraqi Army in face of the ISIL offensive.[115] Kurdish forces also secured Jalula after it had been abandoned by Iraqi Army.[116]
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on 23 June 2014
  • 14 June: The Iraqi Army recaptured the town of Al-Mutasim near Samarra.[117][118] The bodies of 128 Iraqi soldiers and policemen who had been killed in the battle of Mosul were retrieved.[119]
  • 15 June: ISIL militants captured the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, in the province of Nineveh, and its air base—18 ISIL militants, ten civilians and presumably a heavy number of defenders were killed—and also two villages in Adhaim.[106][120][121][122][123] The Iraqi Air Force claimed to have killed 278 ISIL militants in airstrikes.[124] Iraqi Army retook the town of Ishaqi, where the burned bodies of 12 policemen were found.[125]
  • 16 June: ISIL ambushed a convoy of Shia militia and killed 28–29 Shia volunteers near Samarra.[126] ISIL also captured Saqlawiyah and shot down a helicopter.[127] Iraqi police killed 44 Sunni prisoners before retreating from Baqubah.[128]
  • 17 June: The Iraqi Army recaptured the lost districts of Baqubah.[129] Syrian rebels captured the Al-Qa'im border crossing from Iraqi forces.[130] The bodies of 18 Iraqi soldiers, killed while captive, were found near Samarra.[131]
  • 18 June: ISIL captured three villages in Salaheddin province; 20 civilians were killed during the fighting.[132]
  • 19 June: ISIL captured the Al Muthanna Chemical Weapons Facility near Lake Tharthar.[133]
  • 21 June: After the agreed desertion of 400 Iraqi soldiers, ISIL captured Iraq’s largest oil refinery in Baiji.[134][135][136] Thousands of Shia militia members from all over Iraq rallied in a show of strength.[137] Clashes between ISIL and allied Sunni militants left 17 dead in Hawija.[138]
  • 22 June: One day after seizing the border crossing at Al-Qaim, a town in a province which borders Syria,[139] ISIL forces captured the towns of Rawa, Ana, Huseiba and Rutba.[140][141] An entire Iraqi Security Forces brigade was reportedly destroyed in the battles raging in the area.[142] Two more border crossings, one with Syria—Al-Waleed—and one with Jordan—Turaibil,— were taken by ISIL. During the fighting 21 leaders of Iraqi towns in the area were killed.[143]
  • 23 June: ISIL captured Tal Afar airport.[144] Iraqi forces recaptured the Al-Waleed border crossing.[145]
  • 24 June: The Syrian Air Force bombed ISIL positions in Iraq for the first time. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stated: "There was no coordination involved, but we welcome this action. We welcome any Syrian strike against ISIS because this group targets both Iraq and Syria."[146] Iraqi forces recaptured from ISIL the Turaibil border crossing.[145]
  • 25 June: Al-Nusra Front's branch in the Syrian town of al-Bukamal pledged loyalty to ISIL, thus bringing months of fighting between the two groups to a close.[147][148] Syrian airstrikes and missile launches killed 50 and wounded 132 in Al Rutba.[149]
  • 25 June: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that Iraq had purchased used Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia and Belarus to battle ISIL militants, after delays in the delivery of F-16 fighters purchased from the US.[150] "[If] we had air cover, we would have averted what happened", he said.[151][152]
  • 26 June: Iraq launched its first counterattack against ISIL, an airborne assault to seize back control of Tikrit University.[153] ISIL captured the town of Mansouriyat al-Jabal with its four natural gas fields.[154]
  • 27 June: The Iraqi Army reconquered Al-Alam and Mansouriyat al-Jabal.[155]
  • 28 June: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Obama administration had requested US$500 million from Congress to use in the training and arming of "moderate" Syrian rebels fighting against the Syrian government, in order to counter the growing threat posed by ISIL in Syria and Iraq.[156]
  • 29 June: ISIL announced the establishment of a new caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was appointed its caliph, and the group formally changed its name to the "Islamic State".[157]
  • 30 June: Iraqi army recaptured the town of Mukayshifah, killing 40 ISIL members and capturing 13.[158] Iraqi Army attempts to recapture Tikrit were repelled by ISIL, which lost 215 men according to Iraqi government sources.[citation needed]
  • According to the UN, during the month of June at least 1,531 civilians and 886 members of the security forces were killed in Iraq—excluding Anbar province—and 1,763 civilians and 524 were wounded; this was the highest number of casualties in Iraq since May 2007.[159][160][161][162]

July 2014[edit]

Prophet Yunus Mosque before being destroyed.
  • 2 July: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the new "Islamic State" (ISIL), said that Muslims should unite to capture "Rome" in order to "own the world".[163][164] He called on Muslims around the world to unite behind him as their leader.[165]
  • 3 July: ISIL captured Syria's largest oilfield, the al-Omar oilfield, from al-Nusra Front, which put up no resistance to the attack.[166] The Iraqi Army recaptured the town of Awja near Tikrit.[167]
  • 7 July: ISIL abducted 11 civilians from the village of Samra near Tikrit for allegedly providing information to the Iraqi Army.[92]
  • 8 July: A candidate in the April general election and a judge of the Misdemeanour Court were abducted by ISIL in Ninewa.[92]
  • 9 July: ISIL kidnapped at least 60 former Iraqi Army officers in areas around Mosul.[92]
  • 11–12 July: ISIL members killed about 700 Turkmen civilians in the village of Beshir.[96][168]
  • 13 July: The bodies of 12 men, presumably killed while captive, were found in Tawakkul village northeast of Baquba.[92]
  • 16 July: Forty-two captured Iraqi soldiers were killed by ISIL in Awenat, south of Tikrit.[92]
  • 15 July: A new attempt by the Iraqi Army to recapture Tikrit was repelled; 52 Iraqi soldiers and 40 ISIL members were killed in the fighting.[169]
  • 17 July: Syria's Shaer gas field in Homs Governorate was seized by ISIL. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), at least 90 National Defence Force guards defending the field were killed, as were 21 ISIL fighters.[170] The SOHR later put the death toll from the fighting and the killing of prisoners at 270 soldiers, militiamen and staff, and at least 40 ISIL fighters.[171]
  • 19 July: ISIL claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing which killed 33 people and left more than 50 wounded. The explosion occurred in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district, which is the site of a major Shia shrine.[172]
  • 22 July: the Sunni Imam Abdul Rahman al-Jobouri was killed in Baquba for having denounced ISIL.[92][173]
  • 24 July: ISIL blew up the Mosque and tomb of the Prophet Yunus (Jonah) in Mosul,[174] with no reported casualties.[175] Residents in the area said that ISIL had erased a piece of Iraqi heritage.[176] Jonah's tomb was also an important holy site in Jewish heritage.[177]
  • 25 July: ISIL captures a Syrian 17th Division base near Raqqa and beheads several captured soldiers, whose heads are displayed in Raqqa.[178] 32 jihadists and 42 Syrian Army members were overall killed on this day in clashes between ISIL and Syrian Army in Hasakeh, Raqqa and Aleppo provinces.[179] The remains of 18 Iraqi policemen, presumably killed while captive, were found in Abbasiyah, south of Tikrit.[92]
  • 26 July: ISIL blew up the Nabi Shiyt (Prophet Seth) shrine in Mosul. Sami al-Massoudi, deputy head of the Shia endowment agency which oversees holy sites, confirmed the destruction and added that ISIL had taken artefacts from the shrine.[180] Syrian Army recaptured the Shaer gas field from ISIL.[181]
  • 27 July: about 40 bodies, presumably of Iraqi soldiers killed while captive, were found in a ditch near Jumela village.[92] ISIL abducted 20 young students and a Sufi Muslim leader in al-Muhamadiya Mosque in Mosul.[92]
  • 28 July: To mark the Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Fitr, which ends the period of Ramadan, ISIL released a video showing graphic scenes of a large scale killing of captives.[182][183]
  • 29–30 July: 43 Shabak families were abducted by ISIL in villages near Mosul.[92]
  • The UN reported that of the 1,737 fatal casualties of the Iraq conflict during July, 1,186 were civilians and 551 security forces members.[184] A further 1,511 civilians and 467 security forces members were wounded.[185] The figures did not include Anbar province.
US President Obama delivers an update on the situation and US position on Iraq, authorising airstrikes against ISIL and humanitarian aid for religious minorities trapped on a mountain.[186]

August 2014[edit]

  • 1 August: The Indonesian National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT (id)) declared ISIL a terrorist organisation.[187]
  • 2 August: The Iraqi Army confirmed that 37 loyalist fighters had died during combat with ISIL south of Baghdad and in Mosul. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) claimed that "hundreds" of ISIL militiamen had died in the action.[188]
  • 2 August: ISIL and its al-Nusra Front allies invaded Lebanon in and around the town of Arsal, sparking a five-day battle with the Lebanese Army, which pushed ISIL near to the border with Syria. Over a 100 fighters were killed and scores of civilians were killed or wounded.
  • 3 August: ISIL fighters occupied the Iraqi city of Zumar and an oilfield in the north of Iraq, after a battle against Kurdish forces.[189] Also the Yazidi city of Sinjar was captured, prompting a massacre of its inhabitants. More than 12 Yazidi children died of hunger, dehydration and heat on Jabar Sinjar.[92] Ten Yazidi families fleeing from al-Qahtaniya area were attacked by ISIL, which killed the men and abducted women and children.[92] 70 to 90 Yazidi men were shot by ISIL members in Qiniyeh village.[92] 450–500 abducted Yazidi women and girls were taken to Tal Afar; hundreds more to Si Basha Khidri and then Ba'aj.[92]
  • 4 August: ISIL attacked Jabal Sinjar, killed 30 Yazidi men and abducted a number of women.[92] Two Yazidi children and some elderly or people with disabilities died on Jabal Sinjar.[92] 60 more Yazidi men were killed in the village of Hardan, and their wives and daughters abducted.[92] Other Yazidi women were abducted in other villages in the area.[92] Yazidi community leaders stated that at lest 200 Yazidi had been killed in Sinjar and 60–70 near Ramadi Jabal.[92]
  • 5 August: An ISIL offensive in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq had forced 30,000–50,000 Yazidis to flee into the mountains. They had been threatened with death if they refused conversion to Islam. A UN representative said that "a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Sinjar."[190] (See Persecution of Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.) The number of Yazidi children who died of hunger and dehydratation on Jabal Sinjar reached 40.[92]
  • 6 August: ISIL captured the town of Tal Keif. Between 3 and 6 August more than 50 Yazidi were killed near Dhola village, 100 in Khana Sor village, 250-300 in Hardan area, more than 200 between Adnaniya and Jazeera, dozens near al-Shimal village and on the road from Matu village to Jabal Sinjar, and more than 200 children had died from thirst, starvation and heat while fleeing to Jabal Sinjar; about 500 Yazidi women and children were abducted from Ba’aj and more than 200 from Tal Banat.[92] Many of them were sold as sex slaves.[92] More than 80,000 people, mostly Yazidi, fled Sinjar district.[92]
  • 7 August: ISIL took control of the town of Qaraqosh in the Iraqi province of Nineveh, which forced its large (50,000) Christian population to flee.[191] Also the towns of Bartella, Tel Keppe, Karemlash and Makhmour fell to the ISIL on the same day.[192][193] ISIL killed in Sinjar about 100 captive Shia Turkmen displaced from Tal Afar.[92] A total of 200,000 Christian Assyrians fled from these cities and from villages in the Nineva plains.[194]
  • 7 August: US President Obama authorised targeted airstrikes in Iraq against ISIL, along with airdrops of aid.[195] The UK offered the US assistance with surveillance and refuelling, and planned humanitarian airdrops to Iraqi refugees.[196]
  • 8 August: The US asserted that the systematic destruction of the Yazidi people by ISIL was genocide.[197] The US military launched indefinite airstrikes targeting ISIL, with humanitarian aid support from the UK and France, in order to protect civilians in northern Iraq.[198][199][200] ISIL had advanced to within 30 km of Erbil in northern Iraq.[201][202] The UK is also considering joining the US in airstrikes.[203]
  • 10 August: The Battle for Tabqa Air base, the last bastion for Syrian military forces in the Raqqah province, began.[204] France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iraq's Kurds must be equipped to fight against ISIL and indicated that France would consider providing arms aid.[205] ISIL militants buried an unknown number of Yazidi women and children alive, in an attack that killed 500 people, in what has been described as ongoing genocide in northern Iraq.[206][207] Kurdish forces retook the towns of Makhmour and al-Gweir.[208]
  • 11 August: The Arab League accused ISIL of committing crimes against humanity.[209][210] The UK decided not to join the US in airstrikes and instead stepped up its humanitarian aid to refugees.[211] The commander of the Sahwa militia in Hawija was abducted by ISIL.[92]
  • 12 August: The parents of kidnapped American journalist James Foley received an email from his captors. The US announced that it would not extend its airstrikes against ISIL to areas outside northern Iraq, emphasising that the objective of the airstrikes was to protect US diplomats in Erbil.[212] The US and the UK airdropped 60,000 litres of water and 75,000 meals for stranded refugees. The Vatican called on religious leaders of all denominations, particularly Muslim leaders, to unite and condemn the IS for what it described as "heinous crimes" and the use of religion to justify them.[213] An Iraqi helicopter involved in the rescue of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar crashed near Sinjar, killing Major General Majid Ahmed Saadi and injuring 20 people, including Yazidi Member of Parliament Vian Dakhil and a New York times reporter.[214][215]
  • 13 August: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that ISIL had seized control of six villages near the Turkish border in the northern province of Aleppo in Syria.[216]
    More than 10,000 Kurds in Hanover protest against the terror of ISIL in Iraq, 16 August 2014
  • 14 August: Kurdish Peshmerga forces and U.S. air strike broke the ISIL siege on Mount Sinjar, thus allowing tens of thousands of Yazidi refugees trapped there to escape.[217] Nouri al-Maliki resigned from his position of Prime Minister of Iraq.[218]
  • 15 August: The United Nations Security Council issued a resolution which condemned "the terrorist acts of ISIL and its violent extremist ideology, and its continued ... systematic abuses ... of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law".[219] The entire male population of the Yazidi village of Khocho, up to 400 men, were shot by ISIL, and up to 1000 women and children were abducted.[92] Up to 200 Yazidi men were reportledy killed for refusing conversion in Tal Afar prison.[92] The bodies of 12 men abducted by ISIL were found in Tikrit.[92]
  • 16 August: ISIL killed 80 Yazidis.[220] The EU agreed to supply Kurdish forces with arms,[221] and US military forces continued to attack ISIL in the area around Iraq's crucial Mosul Dam.[222]
  • 17 August: The SOHR reported that ISIL had killed 700 members of the Syrian al-Shaitat tribe, mostly civilians, after clashes over the control of two oilfields in the region.[223] The Syrian Air Force launched 26 airstrikes on Ar-Raqqah city and around al-Tabqa, killing at least 31 ISIL fighters and 8 civilians and wounding dozens of ISIL fighters and 10 civilians[224] Including the strikes launched in Deir ez-Zor area, the air strikes were overall 40.[204] Peshmerga troops, aided by the US air campaign, began an offensive to take back the Mosul Dam from ISIL, amid fears that the destruction of the dam might unleash a 65-foot wave of water that would engulf the city of Mosul and flood Baghdad.[225][226]
  • 18 August: The Syrian Air Force launched another 20 airstrikes against ISIL positions in Raqqa, cutting off water supply to the city.[227] Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, said that the international community would be justified in stopping Islamist militants in Iraq. He also said that it should not be up to a single nation to decide how to intervene in the conflict.[228]
  • 19 August: According to the SOHR, ISIL now has an army of more than 50,000 fighters in Syria.[229] American journalist James Foley was beheaded by ISIL on video tape.[230] After three days of fighting, Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi Army forces, helped by American air strikes, recaptured the Mosul Dam.[231] An attempt by the Iraqi Army to recapture Tikrit was repelled by the ISIL forces.[232]
  • 20 August: President Obama denounced the "brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL."[233]
  • 21 August: The US military admitted that a covert rescue attempt involving US Special Operations forces had been made to rescue James Foley and other Americans held captive in Syria by ISIL. The ensuing gunfight resulted in one US soldier being injured. The rescue was unsuccessful, as the captives were not in the location targeted. This was the first known engagement by US ground forces with suspected ISIL militants. The US Defense Secretary warned that ISIL were tremendously well-funded, adding, "They have no standard of decency, of responsible human behaviour", and that they were an imminent threat to the US.[234]
  • 22 August: The US is considering airstrikes on ISIL in Syria, which would draw US military forces directly into the Syrian Civil War, as President Obama develops a long-term strategy to defeat ISIL.[235] As a reprisal for a car bombing which killed three militiamen, members of the Shi'ite al-Zarkoshi militia killed 73 Sunni civilians in the Musab bin Umair mosque.
  • 24 August: ISIL forces captured Tabqa air base after two weeks of siege and fighting.[236][237] A Syrian Mig-21 was destroyed.[238] Overall, 346 ISIL fighters and 200-365 Syrian soldiers were killed in the battle for Tabqa, while 150d Syrian soldiers were reportedly captured and 700 managed to retreat.[citation needed][239][240][241] A Sheikh and a tribal leader were abducted by ISIL in Khuthrniya village in Iraq.[92]
  • 24–25 August: 14 elderly Yazidi men were killed by ISIL in the Sheikh Mand Shrine, and the Jidala village Yazidi shrine was blown up.[92]
  • 26 August: ISIL carried out a suicide attack in Baghdad killing 15 people and injuring 37 others.[242]
  • 27 August: ISIL captured more than 20 soldiers in the farmlands of Tabqa,[citation needed] while 27 soldiers and 8 ISIL fighters were killed in fighting at the Athraya checkpoint in eastern Hama countryside.[243] 160-250 Syrian soldiers captured at Tabqa air base were killed by ISIL between 27 and 28 August.[239]
  • 28 August: ISIL beheaded a Lebanese Army sergeant whom they had kidnapped, Ali al-Sayyed.[244] The group also beheaded a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter in response to Kurdistan's alliance with the United States.[245] A Syrian air strike destroyed ISIL headquarters and killed six ISIL military leaders in the city of Mohasan.[239][citation needed] Another air strike killed or wounded dozens of ISIL militants near Baath Dam.[246]
  • 29 August: UK Prime Minister David Cameron raised the UK's terror level to "severe" and committed to fight radical Islam "at home and abroad".[247]
  • 31 August: Iraqi military forces supported by Shia militias and American airstrikes broke the two-month siege of the northern Iraqi town of Amerli by ISIL militants.[248] 25 ISIL members were killed in the fight and 15 captured, while Iraqi losses were 16 killed, 6 killed while captive and 39 wounded.[249][250][251] 19 captive Sunnis were killed by ISIL in Saadiya for refusing to swear allegiance.[92] At the end of August the bodies of six truck drivers abducted by ISIL on 10 June and of at least 15 Iraqi soldiers captured and killed between 13 and 20 June were found in Suleiman Bek.[92] German Federal Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen announced that Germany will send weapons to arm 4,000 Peshmerga fighters in Iraq fighting ISIL.[252] The delivery will include 16,000 assault rifles, 40 machine guns, 240 rocket-propelled grenades, 500 MILAN anti-tank missiles with 30 launchers and 10,000 hand grenades, with a total value of around 70 million euros. In order to prevent an excessive accumulation of arms, the Bundeswehr seconded six liaison officers to Erbil.[253]
  • The U.N. stated that at least 1,265 civilians and 155 members of the security forces were killed in Iraq during August, without counting the casualties in Anbar province and northern Iraq under ISIL control; 1,370 more people were wounded and 600,000 displaced.[254][255]
  • By the end of the month, more than 5,000 Yazidi civilians had been killed and 5,000 to 7,000 abducted by ISIL, according to the United Nations.[256]

September 2014[edit]

  • 1 September: The Iraqi Army recaptured the town of Suleiman Bek and killed 23 Chechen ISIL militants.[257][258] The German government's Cabinet decision to arm the Kurdish Peshmerga was ratified in the Bundestag by a "vast majority" of votes, after an emotional debate.[259] The Yazidi villages of Kotan, Hareko and Kharag Shafrsky were set on fire by ISIL.[92]
  • 2 September: ISIL released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.[260][261] Kurdish Peshmerga recaptured from ISIL the town of Zumar. A hundred relatives of the cadets and soldiers killed at Camp Speicher in June broke into the Iraqi Parliament to ask for explanations.[262]
  • 4 September: A member of ISIL issued a threat to President Vladimir Putin, vowing to oust him over his support of Bashar al-Assad's government.[263][264] An ISIL self-appointed court sentenced to death and then ordered the killing of 14 men.[92] Sheik Maisar Farman el-Waka, a candidate of the April general election was killed in public by ISIL in al-Houd village along with his two brothers.[92] Another candidate of the parliamentary elections, Zaina Nouri Mullah Abdallah el-Ansi, was killed in Mosul.[265]
  • 5 September: The German Bundeswehr dispatched the first of a series of cargo planes to Iraq, loaded with helmets, vests, radios, and infrared night-vision rifle scopes. After a stopover in Baghdad for inspection, the aircraft will deliver the equipment to the Kurdish fighters.[266] Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, has been to the Iraqi city of Amirli, to work with the United States in pushing back ISIL.[267][268][269]
  • 7 September: the governor of Anbar province, Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi, was seriously wounded by mortar fire in the newly retaken town of Barwana.[270][271][272] ISIL killed 40 people in Mosul after trial by a self-appointed court.[92] About 40 men were abducted from Tal Ali village for having burned ISIL flags after ISIL retreat from the village. The men were released some days later, after having been tortured.[92]
  • 8 September: ISIL carried out a double suicide attack in a town north of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 70 others.[273] An ISIL attack against the town of Duloeliyah killed at least 20 civilians and wounded 120 more.[92] Nouri Al-Maliki was succeeded by Haider Al-Abadi as Prime Minister of Iraq.
  • 9 September: Peshmerga fighters discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 14 civilians, presumably Yazidis.[92] Another Imam was killed in Mosul for refusing to declare his fealty to ISIL.[92]
  • 10 September: President Obama announced a new rollback policy and coalition in the Middle East after ISIL beheaded two American journalists and seized control of large portions of Syria and Iraq.[274]
  • 13 September: UK humanitarian aid worker David Cawthorne Haines, whose life had been threatened by Mohammed Emwazi in the Steven Sotloff video, was purportedly beheaded in a video.[275]
  • 14 September: A number of Algerian commanders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb broke allegiance with al-Qaeda, swore loyalty to ISIL and created the group Jund al-Khilafah.
  • 15 September: The Battle of Suq al Ghazi ended with a US–Iraqi win.[276]
  • 17 September: ISIL launched a major offensive to capture the YPG-controlled city of Kobani/Ayn al-Arab.[277][278]
  • 18 September: The Australian Federal Police, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Queensland Police and New South Wales Police launched the largest counterterrorism operation in Australian history. The targets were ISIL-linked networks thought to be planning to launch mass-casualty attacks in populated areas. Fifteen people were arrested in the raids with one being charged with terrorism offenses.[279][280]
  • 19 September: Four French air strikes had hit the town of Zumar, killing dozens of militants. Those were the first air strikes conducted by French Air Force in Irak.[281]
  • 20 September: The hostages from the Turkish consulate in Mosul who had been captured on 11 June 2014 were released.[282]
  • 21 September: ISIL forces overran the Iraqi military base of Saqlawiyah and captured the towns of Saqlawiyah and Sicher;[283] 155–370 or more Iraqi soldiers were killed in the attack, with 68–400 being captured.[284]
  • 21 September: Official spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani released a speech encouraging Muslims around the world to kill non-Muslims.[285][286][287]
  • 22 September: Two weeks after her abduction, Iraqi human rights activist Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was publicly executed by ISIL.[288]
  • 22 September: Iraqi media stated that 300 Iraqi soldiers were killed by an ISIL chlorine gas attack in Saqlawiyah.[289][290][291]
  • 23 September: Aerial operations began over Syria. Cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs struck ISIL targets in Syria,[292] and military aircraft from Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates participated in the airstrikes against ISIL.[293] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated that about 400 ISIL fighters died in the airstrikes.[294] Nasr Al-Fahd, representing ISIL, issued a fatwa which was translated by Walid Shoebat. Shoebat claims the fatwa included murdering millions of Americans and Western Europeans.[295][296]
  • 24 September: Jund al-Khilafah, an Algerian group affiliated to ISIL, beheaded French tourist Hervé Goudel, who had been kidnapped on 21 September, as a reprisal for French intervention against ISIL.[297] A group of influential Muslim scholars publish an Open Letter to Baghdadi claiming al-Baghdadi's interpretation of the Quran is illegitimate.[298][299][300]
  • 29 September: ISIL released a third video showing journalist John Cantlie. As in previous videos, Cantlie appears alone, wearing an orange prison uniform. The scripted video criticises US president Barack Obama's strategy of using airstrikes to defeat ISIL.[301]
  • 30 September: Kurdish Peshmerga forces recaptured the town and border crossing of Rabia.[302]
  • 30 September: RAF jets launch first successful strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, destroying heavy weapon position and an armed pick-up truck.[303]
  • According to the UN, at least 1,119 people (854 civilians and 265 members of the security forces) died from "acts of violence" in Iraq during September, excluding those who died in Anbar province and those who succumbed to "secondary effects" such as lack of food, water and medical care; 1,946 were wounded, 1,604 of them civilians.[304][305][306]

October 2014[edit]

  • 1 October: The town of Taza Kharmatho was retaken by Peshmerga and Iraqi Army forces, but remained uninhabitable, due to the booby traps that had been left by ISIL.[307]
  • 2 October: The Turkish Parliament voted 298:98 to authorise anti-ISIL operations, following concerns over ISIL advances close to Turkey's borders. Turkey will allow foreign anti-ISIL military operations to be launched from within its borders and gave authorisation for Turkey's military to be sent into Syria.[308]
  • 3 October: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia would contribute eight F/A-18F Super Hornets to aid the war effort against Islamic extremists in Iraq. The aircraft join a KC-30A Tanker and an E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft already deployed.[309]
  • 3 October: ISIL released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning and threatened American aid worker Peter Kassig.[310]
  • 4 October: ISIL captured the Iraqi city of Kabisa.[311] Two bombs killed seven people and wounded 18 in the towns of Tarmiyah and Husseiniya.[311] An Iraqi officer and seven soldiers were killed in two ambushes in Diyala province in Iraq.[311]
  • 5 October: A joint ISIL–al-Nusra invasion of Lebanon was beaten back by Hezbollah.[312] 800 ISIL militants in Libya partially take over the Libyan town of Derna.[313]
  • 7 October: The House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada voted 157:134 to authorise the Royal Canadian Air Force to conduct airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq.[314]
  • 8 October: Terrorists claiming to be "Islamic State in Gaza" took responsibility for an explosion in the French Cultural Centre in Gaza City.[315][316] However, a group by the same name denied responsibility for the blast.[316] The blast did not result in casualties. The incident was downplayed by Hamas as being a generator malfunction.[317]
  • 10 October: Spanish Defence Minister Pedro Morenés announces that Spain will send 300 troops to Iraq in non-combat roles.[318]
  • 11 October: Car bombings killed at least 38 people in Baghdad.[319] Additionally, ISIL dispatched 10,000 fighters from Syria and Mosul to take over Baghdad.[320][321] Also, Iraqi Army forces and Anbar tribesmen threatened to abandon their weapons if the US does not send in ground troops to halt ISIL's advance.[322]
  • 12 October: Two improvised explosive devices killed General Ahmad Sadak al Dulaymi, chief of police of the Al Anbar province, and three others.[323]
  • 13 October: US planes launched 21 strikes against ISIL forces, near the besieged town of Kobanî in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey.[324]
    A U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over Iraq before conducting an airstrike, 4 October 2014. The aircraft are supporting operations against ISIL
    Also, ISIL fighters made it within 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) of the Baghdad Airport.[325]
  • 14 October: ISIL forces captured the Iraqi city of Hīt, after the 300-strong Iraqi Army garrison abandoned its local base, and about 180,000 civilians fled the area.[326][327] Five Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leaders in Pakistan swore loyalty to ISIL, after fundamentalists in Egypt and Libya had done the same several days earlier.[328] A suicide car bombing killed 25 people in Baghdad, including Iraqi Parliament member and deputy leader of the Badr Organisation Ahmed al-Khafaji; three others were killed by a roadside bomb.[329] Reports spread about the formation of small Syrian groups which target and kill ISIL members in ISIL-controlled territory.[330]
  • Between 7 and 14 October 42 people were killed in Turkey in clashes between Kurdish fighters and ISIL supporters, 12 of them in Diyarbakir.[331]
  • 15 October: The US anti-ISIL operation was named "Operation Inherent Resolve".[332] The US launched 18 airstrikes against ISIL in Kobani.[333][334] Forty-six captives were killed by ISIL in Mosul.[335]
  • 16 October: By this date, ISIL had been driven out of most of Kobani.[336] Four car bombings killed 36 people and wounded 98 in Baghdad[337] Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti announced that Italy would send 280 soldiers to train Kurdish fighters, along with two Predator drones and a KC-767 refuelling plane.[338]
  • 17 October: Iraqi Army troops and police stormed an ISIL camp in Jaberiya, killing 60 ISIL militants; other senior ISIL figures were killed in another attack near Ramadi[339] Three MiG-21 or MiG-23 fighters were being flown by ISIL militants who were undergoing training by former Iraqi Ba'ath officers at Al Jarrah air base.[340] Yemen leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula urged all jihadists to join ISIL in the fight against Western "crusaders".[341][342]
  • 17–18 October: The US launched 25 airstrikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.[333][343]
  • 18 October: Car bombings killed 30 people in Baghdad.[344][345]
  • 19 October: A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 28 others outside a Shia mosque in Baghdad.[346][347]
  • 20 October: Airstrikes killed 60 ISIL militants in the Anbar province in Iraq.[333][348] Suicide bombers and car bombings killed 43 people and wounded 85 others in Baghdad and Karbala.[349][350] After preventing Kurdish reinforcements from reaching Kobani for weeks, Turkey finally agreed to let Peshmerga reinforcements pass through Turkish territory. The US Air Force started dropping weapons and supplies to the Kurds comprising the resistance in the town.[351] ISIL members wounded and tried to kidnap Abu Nissa, the leader of the rebel group Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa, in the Turkish town of Urfa[352][353] The remaining 2,000 Yazidis in the Sinjar area—mainly volunteer fighters but also hundreds of civilians—were forced by ISIL to retreat to the Sinjar mountains.[354]
  • 21 October: A series of bombings killed at least 30 people and wounded 57 others in Baghdad, while mortar shells fell inside the Green Zone.[355] A suicide attack killed 15 Peshmerga fighters and wounded 20 near Mosul Dam.[356] According to the SOHR, 40 fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, including an emir, joined ISIL.[357] It was also reported that the US had accidentally airdropped weapons to ISIL.[358][359]
  • 22 October: Car bombings killed 37 people and wounded 66 in Baghdad.[360] Syrian Air Force claimed that it destroyed two fighter jets previously captured by ISIL at Jarrah air base.[361] An American volunteering with the YPG claimed that ISIL have used chemical weapons during the siege of Kobani, providing photos.[362]
  • 23 October: ISIL militants recapture a hill to the west of Kobani.[363] The village of Zauiyat albu Nimr and the surrounding area, in Anbar province, was captured by ISIL after weeks of fighting with the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe; 60 people were captured.[364][365] Al-Sheikh Khayri, a Yazidi commander, was killed in the fighting on Mount Sinjar.[366] Abu Qahtan, an ISIL commander, was killed in fights with Kurdish Peshmerga near Mosul Dam.[367] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that 464 ISIL militants, 57 Al-Nusra militants and 32 civilians had been killed in U.S. air strikes since September.[368][369] Also, ISIL fighters made it within 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) of the Baghdad Airport.[325]
  • 24 October: ISIL fighters take control of air-drop zone outside Kobani.[370] Iraqi officials confirm that ISIL militants have targeted Iraqi troops with chemical weapons.[371][372] Evidence from Kobani suggests ISIL used chemical weapons against defenders.[373]
  • 25 October: The Iraqi Army retakes the town of Jurf al-Sakhar (67 Iraqi soldiers and pro-government militias and 300 ISIL militants were killed in the battle, according to Iraqi sources[374]), while Peshmerga forces retake the town of Zumar, and ten surrounding villages, killing 81 ISIL militants.[375][376][377] The U.S. Air Force launched 22 air strikes between 24 and 25 October.[378] Nidal Malik Hasan, the killer of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, requested "to be made a citizen of the Islamic State".[379] Six Lebanese soldiers, two civilians and an at least nine militants were killed in clashes with ISIL-linked Sunni militants in the city of Tripoli, which also led to the arrest of 20 suspects.[380][381][382][383] A suicide bomber killed 8 Shiite militiamen and wounded 17 in the Iraqi town of Taji.[384]
  • 26 October: during the Siege of Kobani, ISIL failed for the fourth time to capture the border gate with Turkey[385] in the northern al-Jomrok neighbourhood.[386] The Iraqi army retook four villages in the Himreen mountains.[387][388] Two bombs killed five people and wounded 15 in Baghdad.[389][390]
  • 27 October: ISIL car bombings killed 27 Iraqi soldiers and Shia militamen and wounded 60 in Jurf al-Sakhar, and killed 15 civilians and wounded 23 in Baghdad.[391][392][393][394] The U.S. Air Force launched 11 more air strikes in Iraq and Syria.[395] The Lebanese Army took the last positions held by ISIL militants in Tripoli, after 11 Lebanese soldiers, eight civilians and 22 militants were killed in three days of battle; 162 militants were captured.[396] ISIL released another video with British hostage John Cantlie, in which he claimed that the city of Kobani was mostly under ISIL control, with only a few pockets of Kurdish resistance remaining. He also claimed that the Battle of Kobani was "largely over", and that ISIL forces were mostly mopping up in the city. The captions in the video, displaying the Turkish flags at the border, claimed that it was filmed by one of the four ISIL drones. However, the video has been deemed to be ISIL propaganda, especially since analysts claim that it was filmed about a week earlier. Additionally, 200 Iraqi Kurdish forces will soon arrive in Kobani as reinforcements, via the Syrian-Turkish border.[397]
  • 29 October: Australian ISIL leader and recruiter Mohammad Ali Baryalei was confirmed to have been killed.[398] Fifty Free Syrian Army and 150 Kurdish Peshmerga reinforcements reached Kobani.[399][400] The US launched 14 air strikes in Iraq and Syria between 28 and 29 October.[401] Two-hundred and twenty members of the Albu Nimr tribe were killed while captive by ISIL, 70 in Hīt and 150 in Ramadi.[402][403][404][405] ISIL forces captured three gas wells east of Palmyra in Homs province, and killed 30 Syrian Army soldiers in an attack on the Shaer gas field.[181][406][407] A suicide bomber killed five policemen and wounded 18 civilians in Youssifiyah near Baghdad.[408] ISIL released the last 25 of a group of 150 Kurdish children previously kidnapped from Kobani.[409] The Iraqi Army retook six villages near Baiji.[410]
  • 30 October: ISIL captured the Shaer gas field near Homs, Syria.[411][412] Norway announced that it would send 120 soldiers to Iraq to help train the Iraqi Army to fight ISIL.[413]
  • 31 October: The UN stated that overall 15,000 foreign fighters had joined ISIL in Iraq and Syria.[414][415][416][417] While battle raged in Baiji between ISIL and the Iraqi Army and Shia militia, bombings killed 15 people and wounded 34 in and near Baghdad.[418][419][420] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was proclaimed caliph of the "Islamic Caliphate of Derna" established by jihadists in Derna, Libya.[421]
  • The UN reported that at least 1,273 Iraqis—856 civilians and 417 members of the security forces—were killed "by violence" during October (379 civilians in Baghdad alone) and that 2,010 were wounded, not counting the casualties in Anbar province and other ISIL-held areas.[306]

November 2014[edit]

  • 1 November: ISIL killed 50–67 more displaced members of the Albu Nimr tribe, in the village of Ras al-Maa.[422] Thirty-five bodies of members of the same tribe were found in another mass grave.[423][424] News spread that ISIL had started killing former police and army officers in areas under its control—especially Mosul—in order to prevent possible uprisings.[425][426] Among those killed were Colonels Mohammed Hassan and Issa Osman.[425] Suicide bombers and car bombings killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens in the Baghdad area.[427][428] Ten US airstrikes were launched in Syria and Iraq.[333][429]
  • 2 November: ISIL killed 50–75 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Ras al-Maa and Haditha and 17 were kidnapped.[430][431][432] Overall, 322 members of the Albu Nimr tribe had been killed by 2 November.[431] Car bombings killed 44 Shia pilgrims and wounded 75 in Baghdad.[433][434] Also, in response to the US-led airstrikes, representatives from Ahrar ash-Sham attended a meeting with the al-Nusra Front, the Khorasan Group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and Jund al-Aqsa, which sought to unite several hard-line groups against the US-led Coalition and other moderate Syrian Rebel groups.[435]
  • 3 November: ISIL claimed to have captured the Jahar gas field in Homs province, Syria.[436][437] After ransoms had been paid, 234 Yazidis kidnapped in August were released.[438] Canadian planes launched their first airstrikes against ISIL near Fallujah.[333][439][440] US planes launched 14 airstrikes on 2–3 November.[333][441] ISIL killed 36 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Ras al-Maa.[442][443]
  • 4 November: ISIL released 93 Syrian Kurds kidnapped in February.[444]
  • 5 November: A leader of the Albu Nimr tribe stated that 540 of its members had been killed by ISIL.[445][446] US allies conducted 23 airstrikes between 3 and 5 November in Iraq and Syria.[447] The Syrian Army and militia recaptured the Jhar and Mahr gas fields near Homs from ISIL.[448]
  • 7 November: Car bombings in Baiji, killed eight servicemen and policemen—among them Faisal Malek—and wounded 15.[449] The US decided to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq, increasing the number of US troops stationed there to 3,000.[450] Also, a US airstrike killed 20 ISIL militants near Mosul, including Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, The ISIS's Military Chief, who was replaced by Abu Suleiman al-Naser. Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, Top ISIS commander in Iraq, was wrongly reporty killed at that time.[451] Rumours spread that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been killed or seriously wounded in the attack.[452][453]
  • 8 November: Twenty-seven ISIL fighters were poisoned by Syrian rebels who had infiltrated as cooks into the Fath El-Shahel camp; twelve were killed.[454] Six car bombings killed 40 people and wounded 90 in Baghdad and Ramadi.[455]
  • 9 November: The Syrian Air Force bombed the ISIL-held town of Al-Bab in Aleppo province, killing 21 and wounding over 100.[456]
  • 10 November: Seventy more members of the Albu Nimr tribe were killed by ISIL near Hit.[457] The main Egyptian terrorist group operating in Sinai Ansar Beit al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to ISIL.[458] RAF drones were launched in their first airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq.[333][459]
  • 11 November: A car bombing killed eight people and wounded 13 in Baiji, which had been largely recaptured by the Iraqi Army; more car bombings killed nine people and wounded 24 in and near Baghdad.[460]
  • 12 November: Kurdish forces in Kobanî cut off a road used as a supply route by ISIL. The road connects Kobanî with Ar-Raqqah. The Kurdish forces managed to cut off the supply route from Ar-Raqqah after capturing parts of the strategic Mistanour Hill.[461] Idris Nassan, a local official in Kobanî, claimed that ISIL's control over the town had been reduced to less than 20 percent.[462][463]
  • 14 November: The Iraqi Army retook the city of Baiji from ISIL.[464] Car bombings killed 17 people and wounded 57 in Baghdad.[464]
  • 14 November: Clashes between the Filipino army and Islamist militants with links to the Islamic State and al-Qaida. Five soldiers and nine gunmen with the Abu Sayyaf extremist group were killed in the gun battle that broke out in Sulu province's mountainous Talipao town. A further 26 soldiers and 30 militants were wounded.[465]
  • 16 November: ISIL released a video showing a beheaded American hostage, Peter Kassig, and the beheading of 15 Syrian Army prisoners.[466] Kurdish fighters captured six buildings from Islamic State militants besieging the Syrian town of Kobani, and seized a large haul of their weapons and ammunition.[467]
  • 19 November: Radwan Taleb al-Hamdoun, ISIS Governor of Mosul, was reportedly killed in Mosul. His car was hit by an air strike killing him and his driver.[468]
  • 21 November: ISIL disrupts cellular phone calls in Mosul. ISIL fears informants are passing information to Iraqi forces.[469]
  • 22 November: A German father fighting at Mount Sinjar asks for more US airstrikes in the region between Sinjar and Dahuk, so that he and his family can go back to their lands and "live in peace".[470]
  • 23 November: Iraqi and Peshmerga forces began a campaign to retake the towns of Jalawla and Saadiya in the Diyala Governorate, with a senior official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party declaring the liberation of both towns.[471] A Kurdish commander declared all of Jalawla to be under the control of Peshmerga forces. Several casualties were sustained when planted bombs left behind by ISIL exploded. Dozens of soldiers were wounded in the fighting.[472] Ammar Hikmat, deputy governor of Saladin Province, announced an attack by Iraqi forces on ISIL on the Baghdad-Samarra road.[473] Iraqi TV reported the road successfully opened.[474]
  • 25 November: The Syrian Arab Air Force launched a series of airstrikes on Ar-Raqqah, killing at least 60 people.[333][475] A monitor for the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported at least 63 deaths, over half of which were civilian.[476] The SOHR also reported the stoning to death of two young men by ISIL, for alleged homosexuality. The killings occurred in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, one in Mayadin and the other in Deir ez-Zor.[477]
  • 29 November: ISIL launched a counter-attack in Kobanî, by detonating four suicide cars and explosive belts, following clashes between the two conflicting parties in the town. According to the SOHR, eight YPG fighters and 17 ISIL fighters were killed in the clashes.[478] According to the German news outlet 'Der Spiegel', ISIL fighters also attacked YPG positions near the border gate from Turkish soil.[479] According to the SOHR, YPG fighters crossed the Turkish border and attacked ISIL positions on Turkish soil, before pulling back to Syria. Soon afterwards, the Turkish Army regained control of the border crossing and silos area.[480]

December 2014[edit]

  • 2 December: According to reports, Saja al-Dulaimi, one of al-Bagdadi's wives—or a former wife—and his daughter were arrested in Lebanon and held for questioning.[481]
  • 6 December: The Libyan Army begins a ground assault of the ISIL-occupied city of Derna, Libya, and army units moved within a few kilometres of Derna, retaking control of villages and roads leading to the city.[482]
  • 10 December: Man charged on accounts of homosexuality then thrown off a building in northern Iraq by the Islamic state, then he was stoned to death by a crowd.[483][484]
  • 12 December: F-16 jets from Morocco join the Counter-DAESH Coalition effort, hitting ISIL targets near Baghdad and other unidentified areas.[485]
  • 13 December: ISIL advanced within 32 km of the city of Ramadi in the Al Anbar Governorate, west of Baghdad. The city of Hīt is currently confirmed to be under ISIL control.[486]
  • 14 December: During the early morning hours of 14 December, U.S. ground forces allegedly clashed with ISIL alongside the Iraqi Army and Tribal Forces near Ein al-Asad base, west of Anbar, in an attempt to repel them from the base where about 100 U.S. advisers are stationed, when ISIL attempted to overrun the base. According to a field commander of the Iraqi Army in Anbar province, "the U.S. force equipped with light and medium weapons, supported by F-18, was able to inflict casualties against fighters of ISIL organisation, and forced them to retreat from the al-Dolab area, which lies 10 kilometres from Ain al-Assad base."[487][488][489][490][491] This is said to be the first encounter between the United States and ISIL, in four years. However, this claim has been called "false" by The Pentagon.[492][493]
  • 16 December: India bans support for ISIL, but some officials fear that the ban may impact the fate of 39 Indian construction workers who were captured by ISIL in Iraq.[494]
  • 17 December: Peshmerga forces launched the Sinjar offensive from Zumar and managed to break the Siege of Mount Sinjar, recapture more than 700 square kilometres of territory,[495] close in on Tal Afar, clear areas north of Mount Sinjar,[496] and pushed into the city of Sinjar.[497] The offensive is ongoing as of 17 December
  • 18 December: Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali alias Haji Mutazz, the deputy in Irak of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, was wrongly reported dead at that time by a senior U.S. military official. Abd al Basit, Military emir in Iraq, is also allegedly reported dead.[498][499]
  • 18 December: Three rebel groups near the Golan Heights region, which had previously been aided by the United States, switched sides and pledged loyalty to ISIL.[500]
  • 19 December: US General James Terry announced that the number of U.S. airstrikes to date on ISIL had increased to 1,361.[501]
  • 20 December: ISIS ‘military police’ executed 100 foreign fighters who attempted to quit and flee from the insurgents’ de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria as frustration among militants has been growing.[502]
  • 21 December: The Sinjar offensive ends in a decisive Kurdish victory, and the city of Sinjar is momentarily liberated, as ISIL forces retreated to Tell Afar and Mosul.[503]
  • 22 December: Kurdish forces claim that ISIL control of Kobanî was reduced to 30%.[504]
  • 23 December: U.S. conducts 10 air strikes in Syria and Iraq.[505] The air strikes destroy oil combining equipment and kill some unknown number of fighters.
  • 24 December: SOHR reported that ISIL shot down an Anti-ISIL Coalition warplane near Ar-Raqqah, and ISIL supporters claimed on social media, with photos, to have captured the Jordanian pilot.[506] The US said the plane crashed, but was not shot down. Also, an ISIL suicide bombing in Madin killed 15 pro-government Sunni fighters and 7 Iraqi soldiers, and wounded 55.[507]
  • 25 December: Iraqi police reported that the newly appointed ISIL governor of Mosul was killed in a Counter-ISIL Coalition airstrike. Hassan Saeed Al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Taluut, had been in office less than 25 days, replacing another man killed earlier in December 2014. It was also revealed that US planned to retake Mosul in January 2015.[508]
  • 27 December: The U.S. and other Coalition nations conducted 23 airstrikes against ISIL.[333][509] The airstrikes destroyed ISIL vehicles, buildings, and fighting positions, and hit a large ISIL unit.

2015 events[edit]

Index: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September.

January 2015[edit]

  • 4 January: ISIL troops attacked Saudi Arabia again, near the border city of Arar, Saudi Arabia, killing four Saudi border guards. Four ISIL militants were also killed in the clashes.[510][511]
  • 5 January: In Kobanî, Kurdish YPG units captured the governmental and security district and the al-Refia, al-Sena’a, al-Tharura, and al-Banat schools. YPG also advanced in the Mishtanour neighbourhood south of the town. According to SOHR, the YPG now controls at least 80% of Kobanî. At least 14 ISIL militants were killed in the clashes.[512]
  • 6 January: A female suicide bomber detonated her vest at a police station in Istanbul's central Sultanahmet district, the perperator was identified as Diana Ramazova, a Chechen-Russian citizen from Dagestan. Turkish police are currently investigating Ramazova's possible links to al-Qaeda or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Further investigation revealed that suspect had photos with insurgents from ISIS[513][514]
  • 10 January: Suicide bombing in the Tripoli café in Lebanon kills 9 and wounds 30. It is initially attributed to ISIL militants,[515] though other reports claim that only the al-Nusra Front is responsible.[516]
  • 12 January: ISIL battles for the town of Gwer, which was re-taken by Iraqi forces in August 2014. ISIL kills 30 Kurds in the conflict, despite US-led Coalition airstrikes.[517] ISIL kidnaped 21 Christians in Tripoli, Libya.[518][519]
  • 13 January: Someone claiming to represent ISIS hacked U.S. Military's Twitter account and threatened vengeance on American soldiers for the US's intervention against ISIS, and inserted a video that warned ISIS about a U.S Military attack.[520][additional citation needed] ISIL affiliate group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, claimed to have kidnapped and killed an Egyptian police officer, Ayman al-Desouky.[521]
  • 14 January: Christopher Lee Cornell, an alleged ISIL sympathiser, was arrested for plotting to bomb the US Capitol.[522]
  • 17 January: Fighting broke out in the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah between Syrian government forces and Kurdish militia, namely the People's Protection Units (YPG). The two sides, having previously coexisted and having focused on other enemies, clashed when government forces took control of buildings understood to be demilitarised, according to the SOHR.[523]
  • 18 January: Israel arrests 7 Arabs who admitted being ISIL members. The allegation was that they were caught just before executing an attack and were practising on animals how to behead people.[524]
  • 19 January: A Canadian special forces commander said that Canadian snipers "neutralized" ISIL militants in Iraq, after "advisers" operating at the front lines of the conflict came under fire.[525] Also, in Kobanî, YPG fighters fully recaptured the Mistanour Hill south of Kobanî, killing 11 ISIL militants. By recapturing this hill, the YPG controlled the ISIL supply routes to Aleppo and Ar-Raqqah. By that time, ISIL control ofKobanî was reduced to 15%.[526] Additionally, Syrian government loyalists and Kurdish fighters in Al-Hasakah reached a cease-fire, although sporadic clashes continued.[527]
  • 20 January: ISIL threatens to kill two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto Jogo, a journalist, and Haruna Yukawa, a military company operator, unless a ransom of 200 million USD is paid.[528] Also, the SOHR reported that al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIL, had been wounded in an airstrike in Al-Qa'im, an Iraqi border town held by ISIL, and as a result, withdrew to Syria.[333][529][530]
  • 21 January: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters began a planned operation to liberate Mosul, liberating multiple villages neighbouring Mosul, and disrupting essential ISIL supply routes between Mosul, Tel Afar, and Syria. Also, U.S. airstrikes were conducted to assist the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters prior to and during the liberation operation.[333] An estimated 200 ISIL fighters were killed on the first day of the clashes.[531][532] The Peshmerga also positioned themselves on three fronts near Mosul. U.S. airstrikes near the Iraqi towns of Sinjar, Kirkuk, and Ramadi destroyed ISIL heavy weaponry and killed an unknown number of fighters.[333][533]
  • 23 January: Kurdish forces reported firing 20 Grad missiles into Mosul, upon receiving intelligence that ISIL militants were gathering to meet near the city's Zuhour neighbourhood. Firing from about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Mosul, Captain Shivan Ahmed said that the rockets hit their targets. ISIL claimed that the rockets also hit civilians.[534]
  • 24 January: The Lebanese Army repelled another joint ISIL-al-Nusra incursion near Arsal, leading to the deaths of 5 Lebanese soldiers.[535]
  • 25 January: ISIL published a video declaring the execution of Haruna Yukawa,[536] and have revised their demands. They no longer seek the $200 million USD ransom; instead, they demand the release of Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi in exchange for Kenji Goto and Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian fighter pilot.[537][538] Also, the village of Mamid was recaptured by YPG and FSA fighters. ISIL lost 12 militants and a vehicle in the clashes.[539] On the same day, YPG fighters cut the ISIL supply route to Kobanî, forcing ISIL into retreat.[540] By that time, ISIL control of Kobanî was reduced to 10%. However, ISIL dispatched an additional 140 fighters, most of them under the age of 18, to help retake the city of Kobanî.[541][542]
  • 25 January: 392 Special Action Force (SAF - a unit of the Philippine National Police) commandos have been engaged to hunt Malaysian bomb-maker and Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli bin Hir, known as Marwan, and Filipino bomb maker Abdul Basit Usman. Both of them 2 most wanted terrorists protected by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)a Muslim insurgent group which pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2014. One of the SAF teams raided the hut where they believed Marwan was located and succeeded to kill him. The commandos were retreating from the assault on their targets when they came under fire from members of the BIFF. In maneuvering away from the BIFF assault, they strayed into territory controlled by the MILF (another Muslims insurgent group which signed peace agreement with Philippinas Government) several kilometers away, and a "misencounter" ensued,[543] resulting in the death of 44 Police troopers killed in action and 16 wounded.[544] At least 18 MILF fighters were killed and 5 BIFF fighters.[545][better source needed]
  • 26 January: The YPG, with some assistance from US airstrikes, forced remaining ISIL forces in the city of Kobanî to retreat, and the YPG managed to enter the eastern outlying areas,[333][542][546][547] thus fully recapturing the city of Kobanî.[548] However, ISIL resistance persists in the eastern outskirts of Kobanî, and the surrounding Kobanî region remains under ISIL occupation.[549]
  • 27 January: Suspected ISIL terrorists in Libya killed eight people, after storming the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli and detonating a car bomb.[550][551] Also, YPG fighters recaptured the Helnej village southeast of Kobanî, and they also besieged ISIL forces in the southern countryside of the city.[552] The next day, YPG and FSA fighters recaptured Kolama village, Seran mall, and Noroz hall.[553] Later on 27 January, YPG fighters drove out the remaining ISIL forces in the southeastern corner of the City of Kobanî, thus securing 100% control of the city.[554]
  • 29 January: An ISIL militant claimed that ISIL has smuggled 4,000 militants into the European Union under the guise of civilian refugees. ISIL claimed that the fighters were planning retaliatory attacks.[555]
  • 31 January: ISIL claims to have beheaded Japanese hostage journalist Kenji Goto, the second ISIL execution of a Japanese person.[536][556][557][558]

February 2015[edit]

  • 3 February: ISIL released a video of Jordanian hostage Muath al-Kasasbeh being burned to death while locked in a cage.[559] Protests occurred in Jordan with some Jordanians demanding revenge on ISIL.[560][561] Also, ISIL launched another incursion into Arsal, Lebanon, from their base in the countryside near the Syrian border to the west of Flitah, making it the deadliest ISIL incursion into Lebanon since their incursion into Arsal in August 2014.[562]
  • 4 February: Jordan executed two of its Al-Qaeda in Iraq prisoners, in retaliation against ISIL's burning of the Jordanian pilot. Sajida al-Rishawi, the Al-Qaeda in Iraq failed suicide bomber that ISIL wanted released in the proposed prisoner swap, was one of the executed terrorists.[563][564] Jordanian TV also stated that Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kaseasbeh was believed to have been executed by ISIL as early as 3 January 2015. Jordan's King Abdullah II vowed a "relentless war" against ISIL on its own territory, for killing Al-Kaseasbeh.[560] Syrian Kurds fighting ISIL forces near Kobanî stated that they faced "no resistance" due to the fact that ISIL kept "withdrawing its fighters" whenever the Kurds entered another village.[565] Later on 4 February, Jordan began launching airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq, in retaliation for ISIL's killing of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh. The airstrikes killed 55 ISIL militants in Mosul, including a senior ISIL commander known as the "Prince of Nineveh".[566]
  • 5 February: Jordanian F-16s continued an elevated airstrike campaign against ISIL, targeting militants near the de facto ISIL capital of Ar-Raqqah, Syria.[567][568]
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry, with U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells, meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan, Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, and advisers in Washington, D.C., 3 February 2015.
  • 6 February: A continued round of Coalition airstrikes at Ar-Raqqah killed over 30 ISIL militants.[569]
  • 7 February: ISIL claimed that American female hostage Kayla Mueller was killed in the Jordanian airstrike on Ar-Raqqah on 5 February. However, some experts believe that she may have been killed before the date of the video's release, in order for ISIL to try to drive a wedge between the US and Jordan by blaming her death on the Jordanian airstrikes.[570][571][572]
  • 8 February: ISIL reportedly took over the town of Nofaliya in Libya, after a convoy of 40 heavily armed vehicles arrived from Sirte and ordered Nofaliya's residents to "repent" and pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The fighters appointed Ali Al-Qarqaa as the ISIL emir of the town.[573][574]
  • 9 February: US airstrikes targeted ISIL strongholds in and around the town of Hawija, a mixed Kurdish-Arab city to the west of Kirkuk, which has been under ISIL control since June 2014.[575]
  • 10 February: President Obama confirmed the death of U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller by ISIL.[570][576][577][578]
  • 12 February: ISIL fighters seized most of the town of Khan al Baghdadi, with some reports indicating 90%, which is located 85 km northwest of Ramadi. It was also reported that ISIL had launched a direct attack on the Al Asad Airbase, where nearly 300 US soldiers are stationed.[579][580]
  • 14 February: The Libyan parliament confirmed the deaths of 21 kidnapped Egyptian Coptic Christian workers in Libya, after the ISIL English language publication Dabiq had released photos claiming their execution.[581]
  • 16 February: Egypt retaliated against ISIL for the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by bombing ISIL camps, training sites, and weapons storage depots in neighbouring Libya.[582] 50 ISIL militants in Derna were killed by the initial airstrikes.[583]
  • 17 February: It was revealed that ISIL had launched another major assault on Erbil, coming within 45 kilometres (28 mi) of the city.[584]
  • 20 February: Pierre Choulet, known as "Abou-Talha al-Faransi" (the Frenchman) who left France for Syria in October 2013, blew up himself in suicide bombing during an attack on a military base in Iraq.[585]
  • 21 February: Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church canonised 21 Coptic Christians murdered by ISIL. He announced they will be commemorated on the 8th Amshir of the Coptic calendar, or 15 February of the Gregorian calendar as Holy Martyrs and Saints.[586] Syrian Kurds launched an offensive to retake ISIL-held territories in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, specifically in the Tell Hamis area, with support from US airstrikes. At least 20 villages were liberated, and 12 militants were killed in the clashes.[587]
  • 23 February: ISIL stormed the central library of Mosul, destroying about 100,000 books, manuscripts, and newspapers.[588] ISIL abducted 150 Assyrian Christians from villages near Tal Tamr (Tell Tamer) in northeastern Syria, after launching a large offensive in the region.[589][590][591] It was reported that ISIL had burned around 8,000 rare books and manuscripts after destroying the Library of Mosul in Iraq.[592]
  • 25 February: Experts believe that three missing British schoolgirls who had gone to Turkey had travelled to Syria and joined ISIL.[593][594]
  • 26 February: The total number of Assyrian Christians abducted by ISIL from villages in northeastern Syria from 23–25 February rose to at least 220, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitoring group based in Britain.[595][596] Media report about the mass destruction of historical artefacts in the Mosul Museum by ISIL is released, including statues of Lamassu. Jihadi John is identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a 27-year-old Kuwaiti-born British man from a middle-class family who grew up in West London, and graduated from the University of Westminster with a computer programming degree.[597][598]
  • 27 February: The Kurdish Democratic Union Party and Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Kurdish fighters, aided by Coalition airstrikes, had recaptured the town of Tal Hamis, as well as most of the villages in the region that had once been occupied by ISIL.[333][599] At least 175 ISIL militants and 30 YPG fighters were killed in the clashes.[599]

March 2015[edit]

  • 1 March: YPG fighters, aided by US airstrikes, drove ISIL militants out of Tell Brak, reducing the ISIL occupation in the eastern Jazira Canton to the villages between Tell Brak and Tal Hamis.[600]
  • 2 March: The Iraqi government launched a massive military operation to recapture Tikrit,[601] with 30,000 Iraqi soldiers, backed by aircraft, besieging the city on three fronts.[602]
  • 5 March: It was reported that ISIL had destroyed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud and its archaeological site, claiming that the city and its extensive collection of related antiquities were blasphemous.[603]
  • 6 March: It was reported that many ISIL foreign fighters and top leaders in Mosul and Tirkit were leaving with their families for Ar-Raqqah, Syria, after Iraqi began an offensive in Tikrit and news spread of the coming offensive to liberate Mosul.[604] An Iraqi antiquities official confirmed ISIL's bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, a town founded in the thirteenth century BC, with unconfirmed amounts of damage.[605] Iraqi forces and allies searched searched houses in Garma.[606] 47 ISIL fighters and 5 Iraqi fighters were killed in Garma.[606]
  • 7 March: Iraqi forces took control of the town of Khan al Baghdadi, with the support of coalition airstrikes.[607][608] Boko Haram declared allegiance to ISIL, although some experts believe that the pledge is largely symbolic.[609][610]
  • 8 March: Mohammed Emwazi, also known as "Jihadi John", apologized to his family for the shame and scrutiny he brought on them after his identity was unmasked.[611]
  • 9 March: Iraqi forces and allies recaptured Al-Alam, Iraq.[612] Infighting in ISIL left nine ISIL members dead near al-Bab city.[613] Coalition airstrikes killed and destroyed ISIL units, including workers at an oil-pumping station in the Deir ez-Zor province of Syria.[613][614][615]
  • 10 March: ISIL has reportedly destroyed the 10th-century Assyrian monastery of St. George and a Chaldean Catholic seminary near Mosul.[616]
  • 11 March: ISIL threatened on loudspeakers to behead any civilian who tried to leave Mosul. The announcement came one day after US planes dropped paper pamphlets into the city, warning of an imminent military confrontation and advising all civilians to evacuate the city.[617]
  • 12 March: ISIL's spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani released an audiotape in which he welcomed a pledge of allegiance made to ISIL by Boko Haram; he described it as an expansion of the group's caliphate to West Africa.[618] Jamaat-ul-Ahrar left ISIL and rejoined Tehrik-i-Taliban.[619]
  • 13 March: A group of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in Northern Afghanistan swore allegiance to ISIL.[620]
  • 15 March: Fighting around the city of Tikrit led to the near-complete destruction of the tomb of Saddam Hussein located in Al-Awja. The former President's body had been moved from the mausoleum and taken to an unknown location last year, according to the local Sunni population.[621]
  • 18 March: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was seriously wounded in a Coalition airstrike at the al-Baaj District, in the Nineveh Governorate, near the Syrian border. It was reported that his wounds were so serious that the top ISIL leaders had a meeting to discuss who would replace him if he died.[622]
  • 20 March: ISIL took responsibility for a quadruple suicide bombing, carried out in Sana'a mosque in Yemen, which killed nearly 150 people.[623]
  • 26 March: From 25 to 26 March, US-led Coalition airstrikes were reported to have killed over 150 ISIL militants in Mosul.[624]
  • 30 March: The senior Sharia official of Ansar al-Sharia in Libya, Abdullah al-Libi, defected to ISIL, along with many other Ansar al-Sharia militants.[625]
  • 31 March: Iraqi forces recaptured the city center of Tikrit,[626] with pockets of ISIL resistance consisting of 400 ISIL fighters remaining.[627]

April 2015[edit]

  • 8 April: The Canadian military conducted its first airstrike on an ISIS target in Syria. Two Canadian CF-18s were involved in the airstrike against an ISIS garrison near Raqqa. A total of 10 coalition aircraft, including six from the U.S., took part in the airstrike.[628]
  • 8 April: Building on their advances in the Saladin Governorate, Iraqi forces launched an offensive to liberate the Anbar Governorate from ISIL occupation, beginning with an offensive in the region around east Ramadi, backed by Coalition aircraft.[629] In retaliation, ISIL executed 300 people in the western Anbar Province. It was also reported that 10,000 Sunni tribal fighters would participate in the Anbar offensive.[630] ISIL also destroyed the 12th century Bash Tapia Castle in Mosul.[631]
  • 12 April: The Iraqi government declared that Tikrit was free of ISIL forces, stating that it was safe for residents to return home,[632] although it was later revealed that pockets of resistance continued to persist until 17 April.[633] However, many refugees from Tikrit still feared returning to the city,[632] and cleanup operations to remove the 5,000–10,000 IEDs are expected to take at least several months.[634] Additionally, Abu Maria, the top ISIL leader in Tikrit, was killed along with his top aide by Iraqi forces at the Ajeel Oil Field, near Tikrit, who caught the ISIL leaders trying to flee from the city.[635] Also, Wilayat Sinai, a group that has pledged allegiance to ISIL in the Sinai Peninsula, claimed responsibility for a bombing attack in Egypt that killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens more.[636]
  • 17 April: 130 ISIL sleeper agents hiding in Tikrit were found and killed by Iraq security forces,[633][635] which finally ended the Second Battle of Tikrit. Additionally thousands of families fleeing Iraq’s western city of Ramadi choked checkpoints leading to Baghdad on Friday, after an Islamic State advance spread panic and left security forces clinging to control. U.S. and Iraqi officials have warned that the city is at risk of falling to the Islamic State despite seven months of airstrikes by U.S. planes in Anbar.[637]
  • 18 April: ISIL's Wilayat Khorasan claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Afghanistan on 18 April that killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100, according to a statement believed to be from the movement.[638]
  • 19 April: ISIL produced a video showing the murder by shooting and decapitation of approximately 30 people, who were identified as Ethiopian Christians.[639]
  • 20 April: An 18-year-old boy from New Zealand joins ISIL and is reported missing.[640] New Zealand and Australia are concerned about ISIL-related terrorism at Anzac day.[641][642][643] Also, ISIL was defeated in Yarmouk Camp, with the Syrian rebel groups driving the militant organization out of the region.[644]
  • 21 April: It was reported that al-Bagdadi had not yet recovered enough from the injuries he received from an 18 March Coalition airstrike to reassume daily control of ISIL.[622]
  • 22 April: The Iraqi Army regained ground in Ramadi from ISIL forces.[645] Additionally, it was reported that Abu Ala al-Afri, the self-proclaimed Caliph's deputy and a former Iraqi physics teacher, has now been installed as the stand-in leader while Baghdadi recuperates from his injuries.[646]
  • 25 April: A video was released, in which ISIS executioners in the Homs province were shown staging a purported display of sympathy wherein they embrace and forgive two gay men for their sins, before bludgeoning them to death with huge rocks.[647] Additionally, ISIL reportedly shot down a Syrian fighter jet over the As-Suwayda Governorate, with the militant group claiming to have captured the pilot near the Khalkhalah airport.[648] In the southern Kobanî Canton, Kurdish forces and their allies surrounded Sarrin on three sides and started to push into the northern, western, and eastern suburbs of the city[649][650][651] after breaching ISIL's defense line, with reports that ISIL militants had retreated to the urban areas of Sarrin.[649] According to at least one source, YPG and FSA forces managed to enter the northern part of Sarrin.[652]


May 2015[edit]

  • 1 May: The Guardian reported that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIL, was recovering in a part of Mosul from severe injuries he received during a March 2015 airstrike. It was reported that due to al-Baghdadi's incapacitation from his spinal injury, he may never be able to resume direct control of ISIL again.[653]
  • 5 May: ISIL claims that it was related to the Curtis Culwell Center attack in Garland, Texas on 3 May. The Chicago Tribune reported that there is a link between the gun used in the militant attack and the Fast and Furious U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gunwalking scandal.[654]
  • 7 May: ISIL-backed Taliban forces launched a major offensive against the north-eastern Afghan city of Kunduz, triggering a humanitarian crisis and a wave of fleeing refugees.[655]
  • 10 May: British actor Michael Enright announced by mobile phone to the Daily Mail he had volunteered to fight ISIL.[656]
  • 13 May: ISIL claimed responsibility for the killing of 43 Shia Ismaili Muslims in a bus in Karachi, Pakistan. On the same day, the Iraqi Defense Ministry reported that Abu Alaa Afri, ISIL's Deputy Leader, had been killed in a US-led Coalition airstrike on a mosque in Tel Afar, on 12 May 2015,[657] which also killed dozens of other ISIL militants present.[658] Akram Qirbash, ISIL's top judge, was also killed in the airstrike.[657] ISIL had issued statements in which they vowed to retaliate for al-Baghdadi's injury, which Iraqi forces believed would happen through ISIL attacks in Europe.[658]
  • 14 May: An Al-Mourabitoun commander called Adnan Abu Walid Sahraoui pledged the group's allegiance to ISIL, expanding ISIL's area of operation into Mali. The group's founder, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, later issued a statement rejecting Sahraoui's announcement.[659][660]
  • On night of 15 May, ISIL militants entered the city of Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar Province, using six near-simultaneous car bombs. ISIL also released an audio tape message, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi calling all Muslims to fight against the Iraqi Government, in the Salahuddin, and Al Anbar Provinces, claiming that this is their duty as Muslims. The message breaks the rumors of his death.[661][662][663]
  • 15–16 May: U.S. Special Operations forces killed a senior ISIL commander named "Abu Sayyaf" during a raid intended to capture him in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria overnight. At least six people from ISIL were killed while no US soldiers were killed.[664][665]
  • 17 May: ISIL forces captured the city of Ramadi, the former capital of the Islamic State of Iraq, after Iraqi government forces abandoned their posts; more than 500 people were killed.[666]
  • 21 May: ISIL forces captured the Syrian town of Tadmur and the ancient city of Palmyra, beheading dozens of Syrian soldiers.[667] Two gas fields also fell into ISIL hands.[668] According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIL had by then seized 95,000 square kilometers of land, nearly half of Syria's territory.[669] ISIL also reportedly kidnapped a Syriac Catholic priest, Fr. Jacques Mourad, in the area between Palmyra and Homs.[670]
  • 22 May: Al-Walid, the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq that was held by the Syrian Army, fell to ISIL.[671] ISIL also carried out its first terror attack in Saudi Arabia, when a suicide bomber killed at least 21 people in a Shiite mosque in the city of Qatif.[672]
  • 22 May: Abu Maryam al Faransi and Abu Abdul Aziz al Faransi, 2 French ISIS militants, blew up themselves in bomb suicide attack during coordinated assault on the western Iraqi town of Haditha. After the bombings, clashes continued with the Iraqi Security Forces, the Sunni militia Kata’ib al Hamza, and Sunni tribesmen from the Al Jughayfa tribe.[673]
  • 23 May: The eastern front of Kobane countryside witnessed fresh fierce clashes with heavy weapons between militants of the Islamic State and the joint forces YPG and Burkan al-Furat rebels. At least 25 terrorists were killed and more than 15 others were injured, while one fighter of the joint forces lost his life.[674]
  • 27 May: ISIL seizes the Khunayfis phosphate mines 70 kilometres (45 mi) south of Palmyra, depriving the Syrian government of a key source of revenue.[675]
  • 28 May: ISIL claims the seizure of Sirte Airport.[676]
  • 31 May: ISIL launched an assault on the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah, with ISIL clashing with Syrian government forces on the southern outskirts, and Kurdish forces announcing their intent to protect their portion of the city. Kurdish forces killed 200-450 ISIL members and captured more than 20 in clashes accused of being ISIL and burned homes of suspected ISIL supporters near Ras al-Ayn and Tell Tamer.[677]

June 2015[edit]

  • 1 June: ISIL begins mandating that male civilians in Mosul wear full beards and imposes harsh punishments for shaving, up to and including beheading.[678]
  • 2 June: ISIL forces close the gates of a dam in Ramadi, shutting off water to Khaldiyah and Habbaniyah.[679]
  • 3 June: ISIL forces in Afghanistan reportedly capture and execute ten militants of the Taliban in the Nangarhar province claimed by the Afghan National Army.[680]
  • 7 June: The Syrian Army reported it repelled an offensive by ISIL on the town of Hasakah. Kurdish forces also seized several villages west of Ras Al Ayn, including al-Jasoum and Sawadieh.[681]
  • 10 June: President Obama authorized the deployment of 450 American advisors to Iraq to help train Iraqi forces in fighting ISIL.[682]
  • 13 June: The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia announced it had begun to move towards the ISIL-controlled border town of Tell Abyad after encircling the town of Suluk 20 km to the southeast.[683]
  • 15 June: A spokesman for Kurdish YPG units announced Syrian Kurdish fighters had taken the town of Tell Abyad from ISIL.[684]
  • 15 June: Ali bin Tahar-Al Awni-al Harzi was killed in a drone strike in Mosul, Iraq. He was the brother of the top ISIS leader Tariq bin Tahar-Al-Awni-al-Harzi and not only a top ISIS leader himelf, but also a person of interest in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.[685]
  • 16 June: Tariq bin Tahar-Al-Awni-al-Harzi (A top ISIS leader) was killed in a US airstrike in Syria, one day after his brother.[685]
  • 23 June: A Kurdish YPG spokesman announced the town of Ayn Issa and surrounding villages, located 50 km (30 miles) from Raqqa, were under the militia's "total control".[686] Abu Mohammad al-Adnani announced the expansion of ISIL to Russia's North Caucasus region as a new Wilayat.[687]
  • 24 June: ISIL attacks Kobanî, killing at least 146 people.[688] Kurdish forces and the Syrian government claimed the vehicles had entered the city from across the border, an action denied by Turkey.[689]
  • 26 June: ISIL claims responsibility for the bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City, killing at least 27 people,[690] and the attacks on tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, where 38 people were killed.[691]
  • 27 June: ISIL demolished the ancient statue Lion of al-Lat in Palmyra.[692]
  • 29 June: A senior ISIS commander, named Hesam Tarrad nicknamed Abu Bakr, was executed by the rival terrorist group, the Al-Nusra Front, in Eastern Lebanon.[693]
  • 30 June: Alaa Saadeh, a 23-year-old resident of West New York, New Jersey, is arrested at his home on charges of conspiring to provide material support to ISIL, and aiding and abetting an attempt to do so. His brother, designated by the United States Department of Justice as Co-Conspirator 1 (CC-1), left the United States on 5 May to join ISIL. Other co-conspirators residing in Fort Lee, New Jersey and Queens, New York were arrested on 13 and 17 June on similar charges, as part of an investigation of a group of individuals from New York and New Jersey that the Department says conspired to provide material support to ISIL.[694][695]

July 2015[edit]

  • 1 July: A full-scale offensive in Sinai by the Islamic State affiliate began after sunrise with simultaneous assaults on more than a dozen military checkpoints. For hours, as the militants laid siege to the town of Sheikh Zuwaid, Sinai Province even released updates on its progress. The police station was under siege. To finally overcome the militants, the military called in warplanes and helicopters, conducting airstrikes that left the remains of the militants still sitting in their pulverized vehicles, witnesses said. The death toll reached 21 soldiers killed along with 100 of the militants.[696][697]
  • 2 July: Not less than 22 Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis militants were killed in an air strike launched early Thursday in Rafah, North Sinai, by Egyptian air forces, reported Reuter’s Aswat Masriya. Military sources told Aswat Masriya that the 22 militants were killed in the early hours of Thursday (2 July) by an Apache helicopter after information was received on a number of militants who participated in an attack against Egyptian security forces at a checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid also Thursday (2 July).[698]
  • 2 July: Rockets were shot at southern Israel by an ISIS-affiliated group.[699]
  • 3 July: Coalition forces targeted ISIS positions with 14 air strikes near the cities of Hasakah, Kobane, Aleppo and Tal Abyad, destroying tactical units, fighting positions, vehicles and structures. Some more 9 Air strikes occurred in Irak Near the cities of Al Huwayjah,Fallujah,Makhmur,Mosul,Sinjar.[701]
  • 4 July: Coalition forces conducted 16 airstrikes late Saturday and early Sunday against key ISIS buildings and transit routes in the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, a U.S. Army official said.[702]
  • 4 July: Valdet Gashi, a former world champion kickboxer who has joined the ranks of the IS, was reportedly killed in Syria. The 29-year-old German of Albanian descent linked up with Islamic State militants in January.[703]
  • 4 July: Kurdish fighters of the YPG and allied rebels of Burkan al-Furat were able to gain control of several strategic villages and hills south of Kobane in Aleppo province, Syria. At least 14 IS militants were killed during clashes.[704]
  • 5 July: The Egyptian army has killed 241 terrorists in North Sinai over the past five days, the army's spokesman said in a statement on Monday. From 1 to 5 July, the army also arrested four wanted terrorists and 29 other suspects. Four terrorist headquarters were also destroyed, spokesman Mohamed Samir added in a statement on his official Facebook page that also included pictures of the mangled bodies of dead alleged terrorists. The statement added that 26 vehicles used by terrorists were destroyed, including 11 land cruisers, while 16 bombs, prepared to attack army and police personnel in the peninsula, were made safe. Army personnel confiscated a number of militant weapons, including RPGs, machine guns, mortar shells, and hand grenades.[705]
  • 5 July: The Iraqi resistance forces have besieged Sinia region in Western Beiji and will attack the ISIL’s positions. The resistance forces have blocked the terrorists’ supply line, and said, "17 vehicles of the ISIL were destroyed in the resistance forces’ attacks on terrorists’ positions. Iraq’s Hezbollah Brigades said at least 40 ISIL Takfiri terrorists were killed in an operation in the area of Baiji refinery in Salahuddin Province.[706]
  • 6 July: Units of the Syrian army and the armed forces continued to launch wide-scale operations against dens and positions of the Takfiri terrorist organizations across the country (Daraa, Aleppo, Damascus countryside and Sweida), killing scores of their members and destroying their arms and vehicles.[706]
  • 6 July: ISIS militants have retaken the key Syrian city of Ain Issa from Kurdish forces.[707]
  • 6 July: Two IS-led car bomb attacks hit a YPG-held checkpoint in the village Qoblan west of Mabroouka town, one of which was bombed by YPG fighters before reaching its target, but the second hit the checkpoint, causing the death of at least two YPG fighters in the suicide bombing, and the injury of several others along with a number of civilians, including a 9-year-old boy.[708]
  • 7 July: The Syrian Arab Army’s 154th Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division – in coordination with the 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard, Shaytat Tribesmen (Kata’eb Aswad Al-Sharqiyah), and the National Defense Forces (NDF) – launched a counter-assault at the Al-Liliyah and Al-Nishwa Quarters of Al-Hasakah City, killing scores of enemy combatants from ISIS in the process. Among the ISIS casualties there was the ISIS field commander of operations in Al-Hasakah City, "Abu Qatada Al-Leebi" (Libyan) – he is believed to be the highest ranking ISIS casualty that has been reported during this battle.[709]
  • 8 July: At least 45 Isis militants have allegedly been killed after eating a poisoned meal. According to reports, around 145 people sat down to eat the ‘iftar’ – the meal which breaks the daily Ramadan fast – in Mosul, Iraq. But only 100 walked away alive. It is suggested that the food was poisoned, although it is not yet known if it was deliberate or accidental.[710]
  • 8 July: At least 15 senior militants from ISIS were killed in the city of Hit in the Iraqi province of Anbar, as a result of an attack by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes during a meeting held by leading members. The bombing killed 15 IS leading members and wounded the group’s financial and administrative officer in Anbar, Salah al-Zein Najim, cousin of the so-called IS Minister of War, Adnan Ismail Najim.[711]
  • 9 July: Mawlawi Shahedullah Shahed, a senior ISIS commander was killed in an air strike in Achin district, Nengarhar, Afghanistan. The IS leader was killed in the same strike with the group’s "number two" – the head of military operations - Gol Zaman, according to the Afghan intelligence agency. Shahid was a former member of the Pakistani Taliban, he was ousted from the group in October 2014, and was one of the first to pledge allegiance to IS in Afghanistan.[712]
  • 10 July: Hafiz Saeed Khan, the Emir of ISIL's Khorasan Province, was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan. At least 30 other insurgents were killed in the airstrike.[713]
  • 10 July: A Swedish member of ISIS, known as Abu Othman, died after a bombing on an ISIS media center in Anbar Province in Iraq. At least 23 members of ISIS were reportedly killed in the raid in Anbar, according to the Swedish Foreign Ministry.[714]
  • 11 July: ISIL claims responsibility for a car bomb blast at the Italian consulate in Cairo, Egypt.[715]
  • 11 July: Maher Meshaal, a Jihadi chief singer and song writer, has been killed during an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Syria’s Hasakah. Meshaal, a Saudi national also known as Abu Hajar al-Hadrami, was known for singing and writing jihadi hymns for the radical group.[716]
  • 11 July: The Islamic State group transferred at least 50 Syrian young men to Iraq. Most of them are former fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) "who had declared their repentance" at the hands of IS militants.[717]
  • 12 July: It was reported that Islamic State’s militants captured more than 100 soldiers from the Syrian regime forces, including officers. This comes after fierce fighting broke out between IS militants and Syrian regime’s army in the sub-districts of Abu al-Fawares and Bayarat in Palmyra suburb, Syria.[718]
  • 12 July: Kurds repel ISIS attacks near Kobane. an IS terrorist was killed in clashes near the village of Sina south Kobane, and another militant fell in clashes near the town of Shuyookh.[719]
  • 13 July: Two senior jihadists from the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) were killed in the embattled city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, when an IS stronghold was hit by a U.S.-led airstrike. Abu Osama al-Iraqi and Abu Amer ar-Rafdan, prominent IS militants who used to lead the group’s operations in Syria’s Hasakah against Kurdish forces and Syrian army, were reportedly killed during a coalition airstrike on IS headquarters southern Hasakah.[720]
  • 14 July: A young German fighter in the ranks of the Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) has been killed during clashes against ISIS in the province of Raqqa, northeastern Syria. Kevin Joachim,22-year-old, is the second German who has been killed while fighting in the ranks of the Kurdish YPG.[721]
  • 16 July: ISIL militants in Sinai attack an Egyptian Navy ship with a guided anti-tank missile.[722] The frigate, which was floating off the coast of Rafah town, was hit with two guided missiles, causing a complete destruction and the killing of its crew members.[723]
  • 18 July: A group of IS gunmen was able to reach Suluk town, in the countryside of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) in Raqqa province, northeast Syria, and conducted a suicide attack near a YPG checkpoint. At least six IS insurgents were killed during the clashes resulting with Kurdish fighters. Meanwhile, the YPG’s leadership issued a statement saying that clashes erupted south of Kobane between the YPG forces and IS militants after an offensive launched by the latter on the southern village of Qal Hadid. "Some 12 IS corpses were found following the clashes on Saturday evening. Our forces seized a deal of arms and ammunition after regaining the village from Daesh (IS)," the statement added.[725]
  • 18 July: Saudi authorities announced Saturday the arrest of 431 suspects, mostly Saudi citizens, belonging to the radical group of Islamic State (IS/ISIS), and thwarted suicide bombings before targeting mosques and vital facilities in different parts of the Kingdom.[726]
  • 18 July: In Syria, fighter jets of the U.S.-led international coalition targeted ISIL extremists with eight strikes. In Iraq, the coalition targeted the radical group with 23 airstrikes.[727]
  • 19 July: Syrian regime’s helicopters dropped several barrel bombs on areas held by ISIS in southern Hasakah, northeast Syria, killing several militants and destroying at least three vehicles.[728] In the meanwhile, Kurdish forces of the YPG made new gains in the fight against militants of Islamic State. According to the Kurdish source, four IS militants were killed during clashes in Hasakah.[729]
  • 20 July: A car loaded with remnants of bombs and shells exploded near a YPG center for vehicles’ maintenance.

At least three YPG fighters lost their lives and two others were injured during the attack.[731]

  • 20 July: 13 ISIL fighters were killed by SAAF airstrikes in the city of Al-Hasakah.[732]
  • 22 July: The coalition conducted 30 new strikes against strongholds of the IS militant group, 15 in Syria and a similar number of strikes in Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.[733]
  • 23 July: Fierce clashes erupted between militant fighters of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) and Syrian regime forces near the industrial city northern Aleppo. IS militants killed some 30 soldiers of the pro-Assad forces and captured five others in battles near the hills of Taanah and Maqbala that overlook the industrial city in Sheikh Najjar district, north Aleppo.[734] A Turkish military force was attacked in the Elbeyli sub-district in the Turkish State of Kilis, from the Syrian side of the border which is held by the Islamic State. At least one officer was killed and four soldiers were injured during the attack, local sources reported without identifying the perpetrators. The Turkish military responded to the source of fire inside the Syrian territory. The attackers are believed to be from the IS group.[735]
  • 23 July: 2 prominent ISIS militants have been killed by a roadside bomb that was previously planted by the terror group. The explosion is said to have happened when a convoy of fighters from the notorious organisation travelled through the northern town of Makhmour in Iraq. One of the slain emirs was the group's administrator in the area named Abu Malik, and the other one named Abu Abdul-aziz.[736]
  • 24 July: Three F-16 jets of the Turkish air force pounded targets of ISIS in northern Syria. This is the first time that Turkish fighter jets conduct direct airstrikes against the radical group of IS inside Syrian territory since the start of the crisis. Local sources said that some 35 IS militants were killed in the Turkish strike. This operation come one day after IS militants killed a Turkish officer on the border with Syria.[737]
  • 26 July: At least 13 suspected Boko Haram militants and three civilians were killed in separate attacks over the weekend after the insurgents raided several remote localities around Lake Chad in Nigeria. The insurgents are also suspected of kidnapping some 30 people in Katikine village.[738]
  • 27 July: Saleh Zein, a field commander in the rebel battalion of ash-Shamiya Front, said that armed opposition fighters prevented an ISIS military convoy from reaching the city of Aleppo. Indeed, ISIS sent several armored vehicles and heavy artillery from its bases in al-Bab city to combat rebel factions in Aleppo. The rebels lost six of their fighters during the clashes, but they were able to kill dozens of Daesh militants.[739]
  • 27 July: Two bombs hit the Kurdish city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria, killing at least two civilians and injuring seven others. Kurdish security said that most likely such an attack could be planned by Daesh.[740]
  • 28 July: The United States and its allies conducted 11 air strikes in Iraq against the Islamic State and also targeted the militant group with three strikes in Syria[741]
  • 29 July: An IS-led car bomb attack targeted one of the headquarters of al-Nusra Front in the northern countryside of Aleppo near the checkpoint of Malikiya village. The attack killed seven members of the Front and wounded nine others, blowing up the entire checkpoint[742]
  • 29 July: IAF conducted air strikes, based on accurate intelligence, to target three vehicles for ISIS near the village of the tree in west of Hawija. One of the vehicles was transporting the so-called Deputy Wali of Kirkuk. The aerial bombing resulted in the death of the target alongside 6 of his aides, in addition to wounding 20-22 other ISIS elements that had accompanied him.[743] The Iraqi Air Force, based on accurate intelligence, were able to destroy the so-called Diwan al-Hesba and the headquarters of the ISIS leaders in the area of al-Ratba. The bombing resulted in killing 13 terrorists, including senior ISIS leaders.[743]
  • 30 July: Kuwaiti authorities arrested a jihadist network belonging to ISIS. The suspects have reportedly received military training and fought beside the radical group in Syria and Iraq, before arriving to Kuwait.[744]
  • 30 July: The Iraqi security forces had managed, after fierce battles against ISIS, to advance into the area of the Agriculture College and Road 60 south of Ramadi. The clashes resulted in killing and wounding dozens of ISIS militants.[745] A force belonging to Babylon Operations Command managed to kill 10 ISIS elements, including a suicide bomber of Chechen nationality in west of Ramadi.[746] The security forces were able to kill 12 ISIS terrorists, including 3 suicide bombers, in an ambush by the federal police, after ISIS attempt to launch an attack on east of Ramadi.[747]
  • 31 July: The Iraqi security forces and the Federal Police foiled an ISIS attack on Husaybah area (7 km east of Ramadi), which resulted in the death of 8 terrorists and the seizure of 17 anti-tank rockets.[748]

August 2015[edit]

  • 1 August: End of the Battle of Al-Hasakah resulting with a decisive Syrian Army & YPG/J victory.[749] During the different clashes the IS lost at least 312 fighters including 26 child soldiers.[750][751] 125 Syrian Army soldiers at least were killed,[751][752] and at least 100 more wounded.[753] The YPG/J sustained dozens of killed[751]
  • 1 August: The international coalition warplanes in coordination with the First Rapid Intervention Division of the Iraqi army were able, today, to bomb one of the headquarters of the organization south-west of the city of Fallujah, killing 17 ISIS elements.[754] The security forces had managed to kill 10 ISIS elements, including a suicide bomber and 3 snipers, while advancing into the eastern axis of Ramadi City. 4 Iraqi soldiers have suffered burns during their attempt to extinguish the flames which ISIS had kindled in a number of houses in Hasiba, located 7 km east of Ramadi.[755] ISIS militants attacked troops belonging to the 8th brigade of the Iraqi army in the areas of Fallahat in western Fallujah and Sabihat in eastern Fallujah. The army inflicted big losses upon them by killing 25 terrorists and injuring 30 others, in addition to destroying 4 vehicles that had carried machine-guns.[756]
  • 2 August: The Iraqi security forces advanced in Husaybah al-Shariya and managed to gain control of the Mall located in the region. The operation resulted in the death of two ISIS snipers.[757] The security forces continue to cleanse Anbar province of terrorist gangs backed by the air force; they managed to destroy 2 vehicles in an airstrike by the coalition forces in Albu Aytha area. The Iraqi army aviation also killed 15 terrorists, while Army tanks destroyed 2 vehicles.[758] Waad al-llah Forces have been able to target the headquarters of the organization in Line area (40 km west of Samarra), which resulted in the death of 5 ISIS elements.[759]
  • 2 August: Russian security forces killed 8 ISIL fighters in the North Caucasus region.[760]
  • 3 August: A joint Iraqi security force backed by al-Hashed al-Sha’bi volunteers managed to kill the so-called Nbelov with one of his bodyguards in a security ambush in the northern suburbs of Saqlawiyah in Anbar. The terrorist was one of the most prominent booby-trapping experts.[761] ISIS executed 19 women in the city of Mosul during the past two days. The penalty decision came on the background of the refusal to participate in the practice of sexual jihad.[762] Anti-terrorism forces carried out an operation in the area of Al-Anbar University west of Ramadi, which resulted in the killing of 7 ISIS members.[763] The security forces backed by the federal police managed to thwart the operation by ISIS elements to the block lines of our troops in Husaybah area, (7 km east of Ramadi), resulting in the death of 11 ISIS terrorists and the destruction of a vehicle.[764]
  • 3 August: Special forces of Egyptian army attacked ISIS strongholds in Sheikh Zuwaid, al-Arish and Rafah. 88 terrorists were killed and 56 others captured in the districts of at-Touma, al-Qawadis, az-Zahriyat, al-Muqataa, al-Lafitat, az-Zawaria and Balaa. The army destroyed 48 vehicles and motorcycles as well as 9 ISIS headquarters.[765]
  • 4 August: Fierce clashes erupted in the morning between IS militants and Iraqi security forces backed by allied militias known as Hashd Shaabi (popular mobilisation) in Huseibah al-Sharqiyah area in east of the provincial capital city of Ramadi, leaving 11 IS militants and 6 security members killed. Separately, 7 policemen were killed and 4 others injured in a clash with IS militants in Abu Flies area, just east of Ramadi. 5 people were killed and 8 injured in an air strike by an Iraqi helicopter on suspected IS positions near the town of Khaldiyah, some 80 km west of the Iraqi capital city. Another helicopter gunship pounded al-Nassaf area near the IS-held city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, leaving 3 people killed and 6 others wounded. A mortar barrage by IS militants hit the town of Ameriyat al-Fallujah, some 40 km west of Baghdad, killing 2 Sunni anti-IS tribal fighters and wounding 5 others.[766] The international coalition bombed the headquarters of ISIS gatherings in Khalidiya Island east of Ramadi, resulting in the death of dozens of members of the organization. Among the dead was ISIS Wali of Khalidiya Island.[767] The federal police of north Baghdad bombed ISIS dens in Husaybah al-Sharkiya area east of Ramadi, which resulted in the death of 5 militants of the organization.[768] A force of the First Rapid Intervention Division clashed with elements of ISIS in Subaihat area in al-Karma district (53 km east of Ramadi), killing 9 ISIS members as well as destroying a missile launcher and a vehicle carrying mono weapons during the confrontations.[769]
  • 5 August: US launches its first attacks against ISIL from Turkey.[770]
  • 5 August: Hit-and-run battles between IS and Kurdish YPG took place in the last 48 hours south of Sirrin town, Syria. Dozens of IS militants were killed and wounded, while 4 YPG fighters lost their lives in the clashes.[771]
  • 5 August: The Buraq forces clashed today with groups affiliated with ISIS in al-Baghdadi district (90 km west of Ramadi), Iraq, killing 9 members of ISIS and destroying a vehicle loaded with mono guns. The clashes also resulted in the bombing of a huge truck carrying explosive materials after targeting it with missiles.[772] The Iraqi army aviation managed today to monitor and bomb 2 shelters belonging to ISIS in al-Zwiya area in al-Karma district (13 km east of Fallujah), killing 9 members of the organization and destroying 2 vehicles.[773]
  • 6 August: A federal Iraqi police officier managed to infiltrate behind enemy lines in Husaybah al-Sharqiya area (7 km east of Ramadi), and clashed with grenades, killing 7 ISIS terrorists. The police officer was killed by a sniper during the confrontations.[774]
  • 6 August: Fierce clashes broke out between IS and pro-Assad forces, ending with Daesh’s control over Al-Qaryatain town. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that 37 regime soldiers were killed, while 23 militants from IS were killed during the battle for Al-Qaryatain.[775] The Front fighters –supported by rebels of Ahrar al-Sham– were able to make progress against IS militants after hitting ISIS headquarters with missiles. The rebel forces took control of 5 Daesh strongholds in the vicinity of Um al-Qura town in the northern countryside of Aleppo.[776] Clashes took place between IS militants and Kurdish fighters of the YPG, on the southeastern parts of Hasakah city. At least 4 IS militants were killed during the clashes, whereas 3 Kurdish fighters were wounded.[777]
  • 7 August: ISIS militants tried to advance towards Mount Abdulaziz, in Syria, that has been regained by the Kurdish forces nearly two months ago. However, the terrorists withdrew under the blows of heavy machine guns.[777]
  • 7 August: ISIS executed 300 members of the Election Commission in Mosul, Iraq.[778] The international coalition planes bombed 7 ISIS sites, including tactical units and a large warehouse to store arms in Hawija and near Ajil and Alas oil fields near al-Rashad district (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), killing about 18 elements of the organization and injuring 12 others. There was among the dead, the ISIS media official in southwest of Kirkuk, named Abu Huzaifa al-Mohajir.[779] The Peshmerga forces were able to repel an attack by ISIS militants in Sinjar district west of Mosul. Armed clashes broke out between the two parties, which resulted in death of 15 ISIS components, as well as the destruction of five ISIS wheels.[780]
  • 8 August: Iraqi security forces arrested dozens of ISIS militants. The militants were arrested while trying to plant improvised explosive devices in the vicinity of Iraqi security headquarters in Muqdadiyah district in Diyala.[781] The international coalition bombed an ISIS site south of Haditha (160 km west of Ramadi), which resulted in the death of ISIS Emir of Barwana island, Abu Dijana, the latter is a Saudi national. The artillery of the seventh Iraqi division was able to destroy an ISIS vehicle, killing 4 of its occupants in Dolab area in the city of Hit (70 km west of Ramadi).[782] A joint security force backed by al-Hashed al-Shaabi of Diyala penetrated into the western neighborhoods of Saqlawiyah (10 km north of Fallujah) and succeeded to kill the so-called Abdul Razzaq nicknamed (ISIS slaughterer).[783]
  • 9 August: At least 35 Syrian rebel fighters were killed and dozens more injured during a major offensive by ISIS militants in Aleppo province, Syria. Daesh attacked headquarters of the rebel forces in Umm Housh village. The heavy losses in the rebels’s ranks obliged them to withdraw from the village towards Aleppo city. Umm Housh is now under the control of Daesh militants. 25 rebel fighters have been taken as hostages during the IS village take over.[784] IS militants tried to advance towards villages in the countryside of Qamishli, which led to the outbreak of clashes between the radical group and the Kurdish YPG. IS shelled YPG security centers with mortar and tried to storm the southern countryside of Qamishli, but the Kurdish were able to repel their attack and forced them to retreat. At least 9 IS militants were killed during the clashes, while 3 YPG fighters were hardly injured. YPG forces reportedly destroyed 2 IS vehicles and seized a large deal of weapons and ammunition following the clashes.[785]
  • 9 August: A force belonging to the leadership of Babil Operations managed, late yesterday evening, to kill four ISIS members ,in addition to the destruction of a vehicle west Ramadi, Iraq.[786] A force belonging to the Directorate of intelligence and Karbala anti-terrorism managed to arrest 9 elements of ISIS and seize 2 booby trapped vehicles in Ain al-Tamur district (80 km west of Karbala).[787] ISIS executed Sheikh Ryan al-Abed al-Jubouri, a clan elder of Jabour tribe, along with a number of his relatives, in Mosul.[788] The federal Iraqi police managed to kill 6 members of ISIS including 3 snipers in Tel Msheehdh in the eastern axis of Ramadi. The force also managed to destroy a car bomb and 2 vehicles carrying Kornet rockets in the same area, while killed 3 elements of ISIS that were attempting to infiltrate and access one of the areas in Husaybah (7 km east of Ramadi).[789]
  • 10 August: More than 50 militants from the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) were killed when the international coalition’s warplanes targeted a building where the radical group was holding a meeting in a village east of Hasakah, Syria.[790] ISIS fighters hit the Kiweris military airport in Syria’s Aleppo with 3 car bomb attacks, killing several regime forces. The regime-held Kiweris airport has been under Islamists’ siege for nearly two years. Subsequently, IS extremists took over the eastern part of Kiweris military airport, including offices of pro-Assad air force command of Aleppo.[791]
  • 10 August: Abu Sayyaf militants in Manila killed two soldiers who went to market but reinforcement troops retaliated with an assault that may have killed an unspecified number of the attackers in the southern Philippines.[792]
  • 11 August: The IS-linked Sharia Council in Shaddadi city, south of Hasakah, sentenced to death more than 90 of its own militants who withdrew from their fighting positions without a permission from their command , considering their retreat as "an act of treason". Dozens of IS militants have forcibly withdrawn from areas in Hasakah and Tel Abyad, Syria, after the Kurdish and Syrian Army retook the city from ISIS.[793] A SAS snipers unit killed 3 ISIS fighters, preventing them to execute 2 Syrian shiite villagers, in northern Syria.[794]
  • 11 August: The leader of the Caucasus Emirate jihadist group and his second-in-command were among four militants killed by security forces in Russia’s Dagestan.[795]
  • 12 August: the Iraqi Air Force planes managed to destroy 8 vehicles to transport fuel and 3 armed vehicles belonging to ISIS terrorist elements; they were stealing crude oil from the extended pipeline of al-Kiyara refinery.[796] The international coalition warplanes, in coordination with the Iraqi military forces, bombed a convoy of ISIS reinforcements carrying fighters, weapons and equipment in Kartan area in Khalidiya island (23 km east of Ramadi), killing and wounding dozens of elements of the organization, in addition to destroying a number of their vehicles.[797] A force from the federal police managed to kill 3 ISIS members while trying to sneak into buildings close to front lines of the security forces in Husaybah area east of Ramadi.[798]
  • 12 August: Rebels of the Free Syrian Army and ISIS agreed to release 4 hostages each, in Aleppo province.[799] Heavy clashes took place between the Kurdish forces and IS militants in the village of Ghazalla (22km south Tel Hamis). At least 4 IS militants were killed, while 3 Kurdish fighters were injured.[800] Heavy clashes took place between the Kurdish forces and IS militants in the village of Ghazalla (22km south Tel Hamis). At least 4 IS militants were killed, while 3 Kurdish fighters were injured. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes bombed an IS-held checkpoint near al-Hawl town southeast of Hasakah.[800]
  • 12 August: US launches its first manned air strikes against ISIL from Turkey.[801] Turkish counter-terrorism teams launched a campaign against ISIS in the capital, Ankara, resulted in the arrest of 12 people suspected of belonging to the organization.[802]
  • 13 August: ISIL truck-bombing of a market in a Shia district of Baghdad kills scores, wounds hundreds.[803]
    ISIL propaganda shows explosives damaging the historic ancient site of Palmyra.[804]
    The Iraqi Army Aviation had managed to destroy 2 shelters for ISIS terrorists and 2 workshops for booby-trapping the vehicles in Fallujah. The army’s air force also managed to destroy a communications center for ISIS in the district.[805] ISIS destroyed three strategic bridges linking Kirkuk with the provinces of Baghdad, Nineveh and Salahuddin.[806] The security forces, backed by the Iraqi federal police, were able to advance into the center of Husaybah and kill 8 elements of ISIS. The forces also dismantled 3 booby-trapped houses and 25 explosive devices.[807] Elements belonging to the Peace Brigades had attacked by mortars shells an ISIS shelter and burned 2 vehicles carrying machine-guns in the village of Albu Kadud in the area of al-Hawish west of Samarra.[808]
  • 13 August: Syrian rebel fighters of al-Shamiya Front seized new areas, including a gas station, after launching an offensive on ISIS strongholds in the northern countryside of Aleppo. At least 3 IS militants were killed and 4 others were taken hostages by Shamiya rebels.[809] U.S. fighter jets hit IS strongholds in the vicinity of Najm citadel, near Sarrin town of Kobane countryside. This was followed by large explosions in the area indicating that the targets contained large amounts of explosive devices and ammunition.[810]
  • 14 August: Drones of the international coalition bombed five sites for ISIS, including tactical units in the village of Albu Nijm and the villages located between the districts of Daquq and al-Tooz south of Kirkuk, Iraq. The bombing resulted in the killing of around 8 ISIS elements and injuring 7 others.[811] The Iraqi air force carried out six air strikes targeting stores of ammunition and weapons belonging to ISIS in the district of al-Sharqat north of Tikrit. The aerial bombing resulted in the killing of 125 ISIS members and the wounding of 70 others.[812] The security forces, with support from the federal police, managed to kill 29 ISIS terrorists during confrontations and clashes in Husaybah area (7 km east of Ramadi).[813]
  • 15 August: Elements of Tigris Operations, backed by the Iraqi army, police and al-Hashed al-Shaabi volunteers succeeded in the killing of 76 ISIS extremists, including European and Asian elements, in the battles of Alas and Ajeel oilfields north of Salah al-Din, in addition to destroying 17 vehicles, mostly carrying weapons mono guns.[814] Warplanes of the interactional coalition, with coordination with the Iraqi army forces had bombed two ISIS sites in the area of al-Dulab, located in the city of Heet (70 km west of Ramadi). The aerial bombing resulted in killing dozens of ISIS elements, including the Syrian prominent leader Abu Anas al-Shami.[815]
  • 15 August: IS militants seized control of Talalin village in the vicinity of Marea town north Aleppo, after clashes with rebel fighters of al-Shamiya Front.[816]
  • 16 August : IS informed families of 4 IS militants from the city of al- Shaddadah, Syria, that IS organization executed them for "cooperating with the international coalition".[817]
  • 16 August: The ISIS organization, this afternoon, bombed the main bridge which links between Baiji and Tikrit, in Iraq, by planting quantities of explosives under the bridge. This resulted in the fall of parts of the bridge. The organization aims through the bombing of the bridge to prevent the advance of the security forces and cut any military supplies for the area of Baiji.[818] the Iraqi security forces supported by the Federal Police managed to kill 12 ISIS members, in Husaybah area (7 km east of Ramadi). The forces managed to dismantle 8 booby-trapped houses and 45 an explosive devices in al-Madyaq area east of Ramadi. A force from the commandos managed to kill 3 ISIS leaders and destroy a vehicle after being targeted by a missile in the western axis of Ramadi.[819] Iraqi security forces in the western axis entered Ramadi train station after ISIS terrorist elements had suffered from heavy losses in lives and equipment.[820] The Iraqi security forces began an extensive military operation with the participation of the Air Force Flight for the liberation of Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi) from ISIS control.[821]
  • 17 August: The forces of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi [militia], backed by the Iraqi security forces, had managed to kill 10 terrorists and wound another, while advancing towards the axes of Ramadi City. The ISIS elements have left their weapons and equipment in the battlefield amid clear refraction. The operation also resulted in destroying 3 booby-trapped houses.[822] The Iraqi federal police had managed to kill 15 ISIS elements and destroy 3 vehicles carrying various weapons during a security operation in the district of Baiji in Salahuddin province.[823] A force of Hezbollah Brigades liberated Albu Jarad hill in Baiji (40 north of Tikrit) after it was dominated by ISIS gangs. The force was able to open the road linking to the Baiji refinery.[824] The Iraqi security forces have advanced in the military operations in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi, after controlling ISIS defenses in Husaybah area (7 km east of Ramadi). A force of the federal police managed to kill 3 snipers belonging to ISIS and wounding another after targeting their shelter by SPG9 missile in Madyaq area east of Ramadi.[825] The Iraqi and the international coalition warplanes were able to bomb a convoy belonging to ISIS in Rihaneh area west of Haditha (160 km west of Ramadi), killing and wounding dozens of ISIS elements.[826] The Iraqi security forces were able to cut off all supplies for ISIS terrorists in Ramadi, and are now trying to cut off their communications lines.[827] A U.S.-led strike hit the group’s main headquarters in Ba’quba, killing at least 19 militants, including IS Emir Ali Labib al-Ojaili. The international coalition launched 15 new airstrikes on positions of the radical group in Iraq. Beside killing scores of Daesh militants, the new strikes led to the destruction of at least 2 vehicles and several machine guns.[828]
  • 17 August: Syrian rebel fighters repelled ISIS attacks in villages in countryside of Aleppo, near the Syrian border with Turkey. The international coalition hit IS fighting positions with several strikes in the area, which helped rebel fighters to repel IS’ progress and regain strategic areas near border with Turkey.[829]
  • 17 August: ISIS has crushed in the past few days a revolt by a Salafist Muslim group and armed residents trying to break its grip on the city, located some 500 km to the east of Tripoli, Libya. Around 70 people have been killed. As a warning to others, ISIS killed 4 fighters from the rival side and hung their corpses on metal gibbets for public display.[830]
  • 18 August: The No. 2 figure in ISIS, Haji Mutazz, was killed in an 18 August drone strike near Mosul, Iraq. Mutazz was traveling in a car with an Islamic State media operative named Abu Abdullah when the vehicle was hit.[831] Two groups belonging to the ISIS organization; one of them led by Abu Musab al-Musli and the other led by Haji Nasser al-Mawla clashed with each other in the area of al-Baaj in western Mosul on the background of the distribution of the booty and funds among themselves. The clashes resulted in the death of 16 elements of them.[832] The joint security forces seized in the agricultural fields surrounding Mukhisa village (6 km east of Abu Saida) a workshop for manufacturing IEDs, which produced 150 packets per month.[833] ISIS elements stoned 5 women to death in Ghazlani camp in Mosul. This came under the pretext of not wearing the veil and refusing to comply with the orders of the organization.[834] The security forces were able today to liberate the Traffic Directorate of the province and Zaytoon neighborhood west of Ramadi.[835] During buildings cleansing operations east of Ramadi, the sniper force of the Iraqi federal police were able to kill 5 ISIS elements that were carrying rocket-propelled grenades as they tried to infiltrate and enter one of the buildings in al-Madyaq area. The federal police commandos managed to kill 4 ISIS members, in addition to cleansing three buildings after the dismantling of 13 explosive devices in the eastern axis of Ramadi. Another force of the Federal Police was able to kill 2 ISIS members, after being targeted by missiles in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi.[836]
  • 18 August: At least 16 cases of AIDS were reported in the ranks of the Islamic State in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. Most of those infected are foreign militants who had sexual intercourses with 2 Moroccan womenbefore their infection was revealed.[837] ISIS stormed bases of the Lebanese Shiite militia of Hezbollah near the Syrian border with Lebanon. After clashes with Hezbollah fighters, IS militants seized Jousiya border crossing. IS militants also seized villages in the vicinity of Jousiya crossing following clashes that claimed lives of dozens of militants on both sides.[838]
  • 19 August: ISIL beheaded Dr. Khaled al-Asaad, who was retired chief of antiquities for Palmyra because ISIL accused him of being an "apostate" and lists his alleged crimes, including representing Syria at "infidel conferences," serving as "the director of idolatry" in Palmyra, visiting Iran and communicating with "a brother in the Syrian security services".[839] Islamic State group claimed responsibility for car bomb attack in Qamishli. At least 13 people were killed during the attack, including 10 civilians and 3 Kurdish security members of the Asayish forces.[840] The international coalition hit tactical units and ISIS fighting positions of during fresh airstrikes in Syria. The operations caused the destruction of 4 tactical units and 6 fighting positions in the countryside of Hasakah. 2 other tactical units of the group were targeted in Aleppo province, while an IS security center was hit in Raqqa.[841]
  • 19 August: The Iraqi security forces managed to burn three vehicles carrying mono guns and kill 16 ISIS elements, including a sniper in al-Door area.[842] Anbar Operations Command continues the liberation process of Anbar province, where the security forces launched artillery and missile strikes resulting in the killing of 24 terrorists, including leaders of the terrorist organization (Abu Aisha, Abu Sabah and Abu Yasser) near the defensive line in Albu Aatha area. The security forces were able to destroy a vehicle carrying terrorist elements, in addition to destroying another vehicle in Albu Bali region. The international coalition aviation bombed and destroyed a site for the enemy and killed its element in Humera area, and also burned 2 other sites used to manufacture improvised explosive devices.[843] Iraqi police managed to kill 10 members of ISIS terrorist organization as they tried to infiltrate across the Euphrates River to the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi.[844] The international coalition launched some 16 airstrikes against the radical group in Baiji, Mosul, Makhmur, Habbaniyah, Ramadi, Sinjar and Tal Afar. It caused the destruction of several artillery pieces, vehicles and fighting positions of the Islamic State group.[841]
  • 20 August: A suicide bomber driving a booby-trapped tank tried to get close to the security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi in the area of al-Hawish west of Samarra, Iraq, leading the security forces to target him, however, the explosion of the tank resulted in the injury of 27 elements of the security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi.[845]
  • 20 August: Fighters of the YPG, with support of the international coalition, seized control of al-Bahra al-Khatouniyah a strategic town near al-Hawl city in the eastern countryside of Hasakah. At least 8 IS militant fighters were killed during the clashes.[846]
  • 20 August: ISIS claimed responsibility for an explosion, near the building of the Egyptian national security agency, that killed 29 people, including six policemen, in Cairo.[847]
  • 21 August: The international coalition had bombed two ISIS headquarters, including a training center and a booby-trapping workshop in the city of al-Ratba (310 km west of Ramadi). The aerial bombing resulted in killing 43 elements of the organization.[848] The artillery force of al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations Command shelled two shelters belonging to ISIS in the area of Albu Hayat in Haditha District (160 km west of Ramadi), killing 15 ISIS elements.[849] Warplanes of the international coalition carried out a number of air strikes on ISIS sites in the district of Kabisa south of Heet (70 km west of Ramadi), which resulted in the destruction of 5 ISIS rocket launchers. The strikes also destroyed 2 rocket launchers in the area of Albu Hayat in Haditha District (160 km west of Ramadi), while killed 4 ISIS elements, including a senior leader.[850]
  • 21 August: ISIL destroyed the historic Mar Elian monastery near the town of Al-Qaryatayn in the Homs Governorate.[851][852] Two British Islamic State jihadists who died in Syria were killed by an RAF drone strike[853] The target of the RAF drone attack was Reyaad Khan, a 21-year-old from Cardiff who had featured in a prominent Isis recruiting video last year. The second British was Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen. Two other Isis fighters were killed in the attack on the Syrian city of Raqqa[854]
  • 21 August: Ten Abu Sayyaf terrorists were killed, raising to 25 the number of Islamic terrorists slain and 16 others wounded the past three days as the military continued its operations using 105mm cannons against the fleeing terror group in Patikul, Sulu, Philippines.[855]
  • 22 August: 9 elements of ISIS were killed in addition of two boats destroyed belonging to the organization and the dismantling of 72 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during Iraqi army operations west of Ramadi.[856] Five headquarters belonging to the ISIS organization have been destroyed in an aerial strike by the international coalition in west of Mosul, Irak.[857] A force of the seventh Iraqi army division managed to kill a Saudi national who tried to sneak into a defensive position in al-Baghdadi district.[858]
  • 23 August: ISIL destroyed the 2,000-year-old Baalshamin Temple (Temple of Ba’al) in Palmyra[859] Kurdish forces of the YPG exchanged hostages with Islamic State group for the first time. Each side released 3 hostages.[860]
  • 23 August: Falcons of the Iraqi Air Force conducted an air strike, resulted in the death of ISIS Mufti of al-Jazeera area and large numbers from ISIS elements in the district of Tal Afar.[861] ISIS blew up the house of the Iraqi Ambassador to Bahrain Ahmed Nayef Abu Zeian east of Ramadi.[862] The First Iraqi Division Command managed to burn a vehicle carrying 5 terrorists and killed them all in the outskirts of Fallujah. The forces were able to destroy a booby-trapped bulldozer in the same area.[863] ISIS executed 39 associates of the Iraqi police and army forces in Mosul. The operation was part of series of executions carried out by the organization against state employees in Mosul.[864] IS militants bombed the district of Jaramshah north of Ramadi in Anbar province, killing 17 soldiers and injuring five others.[865] Anbar operations commander Maj. Gen. Qassim Al-Muhammadi was injured after being hit by a mortar shell targeted him during the operation of the security units at Abu Ghitha area east of Ramadi.[866] A force from al-Kwir and al-Kiyara clans in Nineveh, supported by Peshmerga and the international coalition, has been able today to gain control over the villages of al-Msentr and Doizzat east of Nineveh. The force had killed dozens of ISIS militants, in addition to cleansing the two villages.[867] The Iraqi army repelled today ISIS attack against a security headquarters in al-Subaihat area in al-Krma district, (53 km east of Ramadi), killing 5 members of the organization and destroying a vehicle carrying heavy weapons.[868]
  • 22 August: Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan who has links to Islamic State, attempted to kill passengers of a French train leaving from Brussels and going to Paris. He injured seriously 2 people and another one slightly while 3 american passengers overpowered him. El Khazzani had lived in Spain until 2014, moved to France then travelled to Turkey then Syria where he is believed to have trained with ISIS before returning to France.[869][870][870]
  • 23 August: Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying Nigeria's chief of army staff on a tour of towns in troubled Borno state. One Nigerian soldier died while 10 militants were killed and another five captured.[871]
  • 24 August: Junaid Hussain, 21 and from Birmingham, UK, was killed in air strike by US forces in Raqqa.[853] The Pentagon confirmed that a U.S. drone strike killed Junaid Hussain, an ISIS operative linked to the Garland, Texas, cartoon contest attack.[872]
  • 24 August: A force belonging to the Iraqi Directorate of Military Intelligence launched missile strikes on the stronghold of ISIS terrorists in Baiji, north of Tikrit, killing 12 terrorists. Two bobby trapped vehicles were destroyed as well as two other vehicles belonging to the terrorist organization.[873] A joint force from al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations Command and the eighteenth brigade of the federal police, was able to repel an attack carried out by ISIS at the Kilo-35 area west of the city of Ramadi. The joint force had managed to destroy 2 booby-trapped tankers and a booby-trapped bulldozer, while killed everyone inside them. 2 members of the security forces have been wounded in the clashes during the attack.[874] Warplanes of the international coalition had bombed, sites for ISIS in the village of al-Dabj in Daquq District (35 km south of Kirkuk). The aerial bombing resulted in killing and wounding dozens of elements of the organization, in addition to destroying three tactical units belonging to them in the same village.[875] A force of the commandos belonging to the leadership of the Federal Police managed to kill 5 members of ISIS and destroy a motorcycle while trying to break into a defensive line in Husaybah area (7 km east of Ramadi). In the meanwhile, a force from the First Rapid Intervention killed 6 ISIS members belonging, after surrounding them inside a shelter in Husaybah area.[876] A force from al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations, in coordination with the Air Force Aviation, carried out, today, a security operation in the area of al-Baghdadi, resulting in the death of 8 ISIS members and the destruction of an ammunition store and five missile bases. Another force carried out an operation in Albu Hayat area in Haditha district (160 km west of Ramadi), killing 4 ISIS elements, in addition to destroying a vehicle and a shelter belonging to the organization.[877]
  • 25 August: Three boys belonging to ISIS between the ages of 14-16 years old were killed, when a roadside bomb that they were planting exploded on the western axis of Saqlawiyah north of Fallujah, Irak.[878] ISIL suicide bomber assassinated two Iraqi generals identified by state television as Maj. Gen. Abdul-Rahman Abu-Regheef, deputy chief of operations in Anbar, and Brig. Gen. Sefeen Abdul-Maguid, commander of the 10th Army Division.[879] Joint security forces of the seventh Iraqi division and tribal fighters supported by the international coalition aviation carried out an extensive security operation resulted in the liberation of of Jaba area in al-Baghdadi district (90 km west of Ramadi). The operation resulted in the death of 27 ISIS elements and the destruction of 10 missiles platforms by the artillery and the international coalition air strikes. It also resulted in the death of 3 fighters from the tribes, as well as wounding 4 soldiers.[880]
  • 26 August: Four leaders belonging to the ISIS organization were killed in an air strike by the international coalition west of Ramadi, Irak.[881] ISIS sustained 40 dead and 45 injured during military operations that were carried out by the security forces and the Peshmerga for the liberation of Daquq District (40 km south of Kirkuk), Irak.[882] The Iraqi Air Force carried out two sorties based on intelligence from the Intelligence and Investigations Agency. The first air trike targeted ISIS convoy in Anbar near the Syrian-Iraqi border, resulting in the killing of the terrorist Abu Salam, an ISIS leader, and the Saudi terrorist Ahmed Hammadi, in addition to killing 25 terrorists, while the second air strike targeted ISIS convoy in al-Wailiya area in Anbar, killing 50 terrorists from ISIS gangs.[883] An armed clash on the back of conflicts over power and money broke out between two groups belonging to ISIS in Mohandessin neighborhood in Mosul, Irak, resulting in the death of 13 elements of the organization.[884] 13 ISIS elements were killed and 2 vehicles destroyed in an aerial bombing launched by the Iraqi army east of the city of Ramadi.[885] An armed group attacked Khansa headquarters, which belongs to ISIS female elements in Babil neighborhood in Mosul, Irak. The attack resulted in the death of three women from the organization.[886] A force from the leadership of al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations supported by the artillery managed to bomb and destroy five ISIS vehicles carrying heavy weapons, killing nine terrorists in Baghdadi district, Irak.[887]
  • 26 August: ISIS militant fighters launched an offensive on headquarters of the YPG in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria. At least two YPG fighters were killed and four others injured after mortar shelling. The attack was followed by clashes between YPG forces and ISIS terrorists, who withdrew after two hours of fighting. Several terrorists were killed during the clashes.[888]
  • 26 August: Kurdish forces backed by international coalition airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of 10 villages in Iraq's Kirkuk province in an offensive to secure their territory to the north. Five peshmerga had been killed, most of them by improvised explosive devices.[889] At least 12 ISIS militants were killed and 33 more wounded.[890]
  • 27 August: A force belonging to al-Hashed al-Sha’bi managed to detain the ISIS leader, known as Hasan Alawi, in a tactical operation in the Shiha Neighborhood located in Karmat al-Fallujah west of Ramadi.[891]
  • 27 August: After seizing control of the nearby town of Harbal, Islamic State group tightened its siege on the rebel-held town of Marea in Aleppo countryside, north Syria. At least nine ISIS militants were killed in the clashes and Shamiya Front lost five of its rebels.[892]
  • 28 August: In the province of Kirkuk, 19 ISIS militants were either killed or injured in an aerial bombing by the international coalition that targeted five sites and tactical units belonging to ISIS.[893]
  • 28 August: Subsequent to fierce clashes with militants of ISIS, rebel fighters of al-Shamiya Front regained a town in the countryside of Aleppo in northern Syria. At least eight ISIS militants were killed during the clashes, and the rebels seized a large deal of weapons that were found in the evacuated town. Meanwhile, warplanes of the international coalition launched several strikes on ISIS tactical units and fighting positions in the Maskana town east of Aleppo. Dozens of militants were reported dead and at least four ISIS vehicles were destroyed during the strikes.[894]
  • 28 August: Three members of the Abu Sayyaf group were killed while 15 were wounded, including ten Marines and five Abu Sayyaf bandits, in an encounter Friday morning in the mountain of Patikul town, Sulu,Philippines.[895]
  • 29 August: Kurdish forces of the Peshmerga freed seven villages from militants of the Islamic State in northern Iraq after fierce clashes. More than forty ISIS terrorists were killed during the clashes.[896]
  • 29 August: Turkish military aircraft launches first airstrikes against ISIL targets as part of the Western coalition.[897]
  • 29 August: ISIS executed 20 of its gunmen in the city of Mosul. Five of them were executed on charges of carrying out an armed attack on the so-called Wali of Mosul, Abu Abdul Majid al-Afri, in July in Qayyarah area west of the city. 15 elements were executed on charges of escape from the battle fronts in Khazar region.[898]
  • 30 August: At least 65 militants of the ISIS were reported dead in airstrikes conducted by the international coalition in the Iraqi provinces of Diyala and Anbar.[899]
  • 30 August: 17 ISIS elements were killed in internal armed clashes between two groups belonging to the organization, because of a dispute over the distribution of money and power west of Mosul.[900] The Iraqi army’s air force carried out an air strike on a workshop for booby-trapping the vehicles in Khalid Ibn al-Waleed farm located in the modern village west of Ramadi. The strike resulted in the destruction of the workshop and killing dozens of ISIS elements, in addition to burning four vehicles, including two booby-trapped vehicles.[901]
  • 30 August: ISIL destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra.[902] The bricks and columns were reported as lying on the ground and only one wall was reported as remaining, according to a Palmyra resident.[903]
  • 30 August: The International coalition warplanes were able to bomb a house in Joabh area east of Ramadi, which was taken by ISIS as headquarters for meetings; killing 43 elements of the organization, including Arab leaders.[904]
  • 31 August: Iraqi Federal Police announced the killing of five ISIS members and the destruction of a vehicle belonging to the organization and carrying weapons in east of Ramadi.[905] The Seventh Division commander of the Iraqi army announced that the security forces repelled ISIS attack on al-Baghdadi and Haditha in Anbar, saying that 32 elements of the organization were killed.[906]


September 2015[edit]

  • 1 September: Abu Huzaifa al-Libi, a prominent commander of the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, was shot dead by a Syrian militant after disputes turned into violence between them. Al-Libi was killed after trying to force fellow militants to head to the fighting front in al-Hawl town in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah, when a group of Syrian members of ISIS refused al-Libi’s orders to join the battles in al-Hawl, he (al-Libi) threatened to execute them. One of the Syrian militants reacted on the commander’s threat by shooting him in the head.[907] Clashes broke out between Kurdish YPG and ISIS militants in the vicinity of Tel Aybad city in the northern countryside of Raqqa. At least two ISIS militants were killed and four injured. Fighters of the YPG also destroyed two ISIS vehicles during the clashes.[908]
  • 1 September: At least one Turkish soldier was killed and two others wounded in the southern province of Kilis by cross-border fire near Syria. The fire came from Syrian territory held by ISIS militants.
  • 1 September: Peshmerga forces have rebelled ISIS attack on Baashiqa Mount in eastern Mosul, Iraq. The clashes resulted in the killing of 15 militants of the organization and the injuring of many others, as well as the destruction of a number of their vehicles.[909]
  • 2 September: The Iraqi's Air Force F-16 fighter jets have begun its combat operations. 4 F-16 were delivered in Iraq in July.[910] ISIS executed 112 of its gunmen, including 18 leaders, who were shot dead in the old prison, located south of Mosul, explaining that the executions came on the background of their attempt to stage a coup against the organization’s leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.[911]
  • 3 September: At least 15 ISIS militants were killed during clashes with tribal forces from al-Jabour clan in the Qiyara district west of Mosul, Iraq. The clashes came after the clan had refused to join the organization.[912] A force from the Iraqi commandos of the federal police managed to kill six members belonging to ISIS and destroy an armored vehicle in Husaybah area east of Ramadi. The artillery of the Federal Police was able to destroy two ISIS vehicles in the second river bank of the Euphrates River.[913] The commander of the Seventh Division of the Iraqi army, Maj. Gen. Abdul-Zobaie Nauman, announced the killing of 112 ISIS elements in a battle called the "Bride of all battles" in the areas of al-Baghdadi and Haditha west of Ramadi.[914]
  • 3 September: ISIS has executed more than 40 of its militants in the Musbaq al-Suney district of al-Mayadin, Syria, saying they have refused to join the battles in Aleppo province. Among those executed were several Saudi leading members who refused to leave Deir ez-Zor province.[915]
  • 4 September: At least seven ISIS militants were killed during clashes with Syrian rebels of the Shamiya Front in the northern countryside of Aleppo. rebel fighters of Shamiya Front also reportedly took several others as hostages, beside destroying three ISIS vehicles.[916]
  • 4 September: A force from the Iraqi federal police, in coordination with Anbar police, managed to kill 30 ISIS elements and destroy an armored vehicle and three boats in a proactive operation in Husaybah area east of Ramadi.[917] The artillery force of the army, under the command of al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations, was able to destroy a rockets launch base for ISIS in the area of al-Haqlaniyah in Haditha District (160 km west of Ramadi).[918] 60 ISIS elements were killed in an aerial bombardment that targeted their positions in Anbar.[919] Media War Cell announced killing 25 Chechen suicide bombers that were planning to attack the city of Samarra during an operation that resulted in killing 124 militants of the organization and the destruction of 12 vehicles and two boats in the provinces of Kirkuk. Falcon air forces were able to kill 61 terrorists including three leaders of Arab nationality in the village of al-Bashir, in addition of 3 armored vehicles burned, while two bobby-trapped vehicles were destroyed.[920] 7 members of the ISIS were killed and injuring 12 others, in addition to destroying 3 vehicles in an aerial bombing south of Mosul.[921]
  • 5 September: The international coalition carried out 21 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria over the weekend of 5 September. The largest concentration of attacks occurred near Fallujah, Iraq, where five airstrikes hit staging areas, a building and a bunker. Another 12 attacks were carried out across six other cities in Iraq.[922]
  • 5 September: Clashes between Syrian rebel fighters and ISIS militants broke out in the vicinity of the strategic town of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo. 27 ISIS militants were killed, while rebel factions lost at least 18 fighters.[923]
  • 5 September: An Iraqi woman, believed to be a member of the Yazidi-Kurdish minority, shot dead a senior Islamic State commander known as Abu Anas, as bloody revenge for making her a sex slave.[924]
  • 6 September: Wathiq Khalil Ahmed, an ISIS top official and chief of security in Mosul, was killed in an attack by Iraqi tribal forces. Ahmed and three other militants were killed in an attack launched by tribal fighters on ISIS headquarters in the Sukkar district of Mosul.[925] The so-called ISIS Wali (governor) of Tal-Afar has been killed alongside four of his aides in an aerial strike carried out by the interactional coalition on the district of Tal-Afar, located in west of Mosul.[926] An unidentified armed group attacked Khansa headquarters, which belongs to ISIS women activists in Mosul. The attack resulted in the killing of six female members of the organization.[927] Iraqi security forces, backed by al-Hashed al-Sha’bi, managed to destroy shelters belonging to ISIS near Albu Aitha north of Ramadi, resulting in the death of 30 ISIS elements. Another force was able to destroy 5 booby-trapped vehicles that were prepared to target military troops stationed there.[928]
  • 7 September: ISIS Militant fighters launched a major offensive on headquarters of the Kurdish forces near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah. Four YPG fighters were hardly injured during the clashes.In the meantime, the international coalition conducted several airstrikes on ISIS fighting positions in the countryside of Hasakah province.[929] Kurdish fighters of the YPG and allied Syrian rebels of Burkan al-Furat targeted an ISIS convoy with mortar shells near the town of Heysha north of Raqqa, destroying a military vehicle and killing at least 12 ISIS militants. While four fighters from the joint forces have been injured.[930] ISIS militants have seized control of the last major oilfield in central Syria after heavy battles with regime forces. The Syrian army claimed to killed at least 25 jihadists in clashes near Homs nevertheless, the regime's forces withdrew from the vicinity of Jazal after suffering heavy losses.[931] The official spokesman of the Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units accused the opposition (Syrian National Coalition) of supporting ISIS militants.[932]
  • 7 September: The Iraqi Defense Minister ‘s convoy came under fire north of the city of Tikrit, while noting that this resulted in wounding one of his bodyguards.[933] The international coalition warplanes, in coordination with the army, bombed a convoy belonging to ISIS as it passed in Albu shihab in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi), resulting in the destruction of 15 ISIS vehicles and killing its occupants.[934]
  • 8 September: In coordination with the Government of Iraq, the Coalition conducted airstrikes against an ISIL operating base and staging area located in a stadium near Ramadi. The stadium was a key ISIL command and supply hub in the Ramadi region and was being used to store large amounts of homemade explosives, weapons and ammunition as well as VBIED components. ISIL used the stadium as a base of operations to control fighters across the Ramadi region, and as a central node for lethal aid funneled down the Euphrates River Valley. This hub was destroyed.[935] The Iraqi intelligence information enabled the international coalition aircraft to bomb a gathering of ISIS elements in one of the houses in Joabh area, located 16 km northeast of Ramadi, resulting in the death of 18 terrorist elements of the organization. The air raid resulted in the destruction of three vehicles carrying medium and heavy weapons.[936] The Iraqi Rapid Intervention Brigades repelled an ISIS attack in Husaybah al-Sharqiya east of Ramadi. The forces killed seven ISIS elements, including three snipers, and destroyed a vehicle and a bulldozer belonging to the organization.[937]
  • 9 September: At least 35 Kurdish fighters of the YPG were killed in a car bomb attack conducted by ISIS on weapons store in the northeastern Syria city of Derik.[938]
  • 9 September: A force from the martyr Sadr forces belonging to al-Hashed al-Saabi forces, was able to kill 2 members of ISIS that were trying to plant explosives in Tilal area south of Tikrit, Iraq.[939] A force from the Iraqi Federal Police bombed today ISIS hideouts by rocket launchers and mortars in Tel Massoud and Husaybah area east of Ramadi, killing 10 militants of the organization.[940] A Iraqi security force foiled a suicide attack by a vehicle driven by a suicide bomber who tried to target defense lines of the security forces in Husaybah area east of Ramadi, the force blew up the vehicle and killed the suicide bomber with a missile system. The attack was followed by another attack by ISIS elements and confrontations occurred, resulting in the death of seven members of the organization.[941] The joint forces of al-Hashed al-Shaabi and the Iraqi army were able to kill the so-called Abu Humam al-Shami (Wali of Baghdadi district) and two of his aides in a military strike in Albu Hayat area in al-Baghdadi western Anbar.[942] ISIS has executed 10 women in the city of Mosul, Iraq noting that the execution came after refusing to join the ranks of the organization and practicing sex with armed men.[943]
  • 10 September: A coalition airstrike kills Abu Bakr al-Turkmani, an ISIL administrative emir, at Tal Afar, Iraq.[944]
  • 10 September: Amid heavy clashes with Syrian regime forces, the Islamic State extremist group advanced towards a strategic airbase in eastern Syria. ISIS militants seized control of a Syrian army post near the regime-held military airbase in the vicinity of Deir ez-Zor city. At least 30 ISIS militants were killed during the clashes, while regime army lost some 20 forces before evacuating some parts of the military airbase.[945] ISIS militant fighters launched an attack on the Kurdish village of Qolan in the southern countryside of Kobane. At least one ISIS militant was killed and three injured during the clashes, while two Kurdish fighters were hardly wounded.[946]
  • 11 September: Subsequent to an offensive by ISIS terrorists on villages near Tel Abyad town, Syria, fierce clashes took place in the area between the radical group and YPG forces. More than five ISIS militants were killed before the group’s withdrawal towards its main headquarters in Raqqa city and the YPG lost 2 fighters.[947]
  • 11 September: The Peshmerga has reportedly shelled ISIS strongholds in the Daquq district south of Kirkuk, Iraq, forcing the militants to withdraw from some eight villages in the area. The Kurdish forces found the corpses of 36 ISIS militants after the battles. the liberation of the villages from ISIS militants was accomplished with the support of the international coalition’s air forces, which hit ISIS fighting positions.[948]
  • 12 September: The coalition’s warplanes conducted more than ten strikes on ISIS tactical units north of Aleppo, Syria. At least 30 ISIS militants were killed during the airstrikes.[949]
  • 12 September: The Iraqi deputy president of the provincial council, Faleh al-Issawi, has been lightly wounded during a shooting by a sniper belonging to the ISIS organization south of Ramadi.[950] The international coalition warplanes, based on information by the Iraqi Intelligence Agency, conducted an air strike on the main headquarters for ISIS in the area of al-Mallab in central Ramadi. The strike resulted in the complete destruction of the command center as well as ammunition stores.[951]
  • 13 September: At least eight militant fighters of the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front were killed in an ambush in the southern Syrian province of Daraa, including two leaders. The operation was carried out by the ISIS-linked rebels of Shuhada al-Yarmouk. Subsequently, fierce clashes broke out between militants of ISIS and al-Nusra in the vicinity of Hawsh Hammad in the Lujat sub-district, east of Daraa. Three ISIS militants were killed and four wounded, while al-Nusra lost one more fighter in the clashes.[952]
  • 13 September: The Peshmerga forces broke the aura around the ISIS organization in the operations to liberate the surroundings of Daquq District (40 km south of Kirkuk). The operation resulted in the liberation of 10 villages.[953] This same security operation, resulted in the killing of 36 ISIS elements and wounding 40 others while the Peshmerga sustained 3 killed and about 20 others injured.[954] The international coalition warplanes, in coordination with Anbar Joint Operations, launched an air strike on ISIS sites in Albu Aitha area in eastern Ramadi, killing 27 militants of the organization. The coalition aircraft also bombed three ISIS vehicles in the same area.[955] Anbar joint operations managed to kill 6 ISIS members, including two senior leaders still in Albu Aitha area, in addition to destroying a vehicle carrying a machine-gun.[956] The elements of al-Hashed al-Shaabi managed to repel an ISIS attack on Baiji north of Tikrit, killing 18 insurgents.[957] ISIS has executed 32 Iraqi army deserters and 15 of its own handicapped elements in the city of Mosul.[958] ISIS has executed 30 militants of its elements by firing squad in the old prison in Mosul. Those elements were accused of planning for operations against the organization.[959] The security forces killed ISIS senior leader specialized in booby-trapping houses in Husaybah al-Sharqiya area.[956]
  • 14 September: ISIS targeted several Kurdish villages with mortar shells, locals reported. At least eight people were killed and twenty others wounded, among villagers, under heavy shelling by ISIS extremists west of Kobane, Syria.[960] A car bomb hit a security center for the Kurdish Asayish forces in the Khashman district in northern Hasakah, Syria, while another attack targeted the regime-held Mahata neighborhood in the city. The terrorist attacks claimed lives of at least 21 people, including Kurdish security forces, civil rights activists reported, adding that more than 100 others were injured, mostly civilians.[961]
  • 14 September: Two Australian Hornet fighter aircraft destroyed a Daesh armoured personnel carrier with a precision-guided missile in east Syria.[962]
  • 14 September: The RAF has successfully destroyed an Islamic State explosive haul.[963] Iraqi F16 warplanes carried out strikes on ISIS headquarters and targets, pushing them to leave Hawija towards Sharqat and Mosul. These aircraft also bombed Sadr al-Nahr Bridge northeast of Hawija and destroyed it completely.[964]
  • 15 September: Egyptian security forces killed 55 militants in Sinai on the ninth day of an operation against Islamists in the area

2 Egyptian soldiers were killed.[965]

  • 15 September: Kurdish forces of the Peshmerga have freed 18 Yezidi hostages that had been held by the militant group of Islamic State in northern Iraq.[966] The Iraqi joint security forces carried out a security operation in Husaybah area (7 km east of Ramadi) resulting in the death of 12 elements belonging to the organization, including the Saudi national Abu Hafsa. In the meantime, a security force foiled an infiltration attempt by ISIS elements from Husaybah area towards Khalidiya district, killing 4 members of the organization.[967] Armed clashes broke out between ISIS gunmen and members of Albomteot Clan in Blige area in western Mosul. The clashes resulted in the killing of 17 militants of the organization. The confrontations erupted between the two sides because the members of the tribe refused the practices of ISIS.[968]
  • 16 September: The international coalition have carried out 22 air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the past 24 hours. There were three strikes near Hasaka in northeast Syria hitting a tactical unit and destroying Isis fighting positions, bunkers and excavators. Another strike near Aleppo hit an Isis tactical unit. Kobani, near the Turkish border, also took a hit destroying three fighting positions and a tactical unit. And in a co-ordinated attack with the Iraqi Government, there were fifteen strikes in Iraq targeting Islamic State buildings and equipment near Baiji, Fallujah, Mosul and Sinjar.[969]
  • 16 September: The Kurdish counter-terrorism forces arrested 45 militants of ISIS in Kirkuk province in northern Iraq.[970] The international coalition warplanes bombed today sites belonging to ISIS in the village of Rummana al-Zab district (75 km southwest of Kirkuk). The bombing resulted in the death of 11 members of the organization and the destruction of 2 vehicles.[971] ISIS clashed with a number of members of Jabour Clan in Qayyarah area south of Mosul, resulting in the death of 15 elements of the organization, the clash broke out due to the clan’s rejection to the practices of the organization.[972]
  • 17 September: ISIS has executed seven of its female militants, of the al-Khansaa Battalion, for disobeying orders, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.[973] 82 militants from ISIS fled during the last two days from the city of Mosul to Syria, among the escapees were three ISIS leaders. According to the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, attributed the reasons for this escape to the collapse of the morale among the militants and splits in the organization in Mosul.[974] the ISIS organization announced in a statement its responsibility for the two suicide bombings in the two areas inhabited by Shi’ite citizens in the center of Baghdad. The two ISIS elements wearing explosive vests targeted the police and fighters of armed groups.[975] The final toll of the suicide bombing that took place in Al Wathba Square stood at 11 dead and 57 wounded, while the final outcome of the Haraj market suicide bombing reached 13 dead and 64 wounded.[976]
  • 17 September: Syrian air forces conducted more than ten strikes on different areas in Raqqa province. Dozens were killed and injured, including civilians.[977]
  • 18 September: Syrian army jets have carried out at least 25 airstrikes on Islamic State positions in the city of Palmyra leaving at least 26 people dead, including 12 ISIS militants. A separate round of regime airstrikes against the Syrian opposition stronghold of Idlib killed at least 19 people.[978]
  • 18 September: The coalition forces hit an ISIS convoy near Dalha town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Syria, with some eight airstrikes. At least 14 ISIS members were killed. The operations have also caused the destruction of five vehicles that were apparently loaded with heavy weapons and ammunition. The coalition has also targeted strongholds of ISIS in several villages in the vicinity of Dalha town. It was not immediately clear whether the strikes on the villages near Dalha have hit direct targets of the radical group. In the meantime, clashes continued between Syrian rebel fighters of al-Shamiya Front and militants of ISIS near the Marea town north of Aleppo. The rebels have counter-attacked ISIS with mortar fire," he said. There were no reports of casualties.[979] ISIS targeted headquarters of the Kurdish forces in the villages of Sihrij and Heyale Kayala south of Kobane. The group hit YPG centers with mortar shells, which led to clashes between the two sides in the vicinity of the targeted villages, leading to the destruction of two ISIS vehicles under the shelling of YPG forces on the group’s positions. Five ISIS terrorists were killed during the clashes, while two of the YPG fighters lost their lives and four were hardly injured.[980]
  • 18 September: The Iraqi joint security forces conducted an ambush in the depth of the Hamrin Mountains (90 km north of Baqubah), at the border between Diyali and Salahuddin province, killing two members of the ISIS.[981]
  • 19 September: A force from the Rockets Battalion of the Iraqi Federal Police bombed an ISIS gathering in Albu Murad area, located east of Ramadi, killing 16 members of the organization and wounding six others. The senior leaders, Maher Jamal Jazzae, and three Arab nationals were among the dead, and among the injured was Mohammed Jamal Jazzae. The shelling resulted in the destruction of four vehicles of the organization.[982] The international coalition warplanes bombed today two sites in the Department of Agriculture and another area, in which elements of the organization were gathered, near Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), killing 22 element of the organization, including 3 prominent leaders of Arab nationalities.[983] The leadership of al-Jazeera increased artillery strikes on ISIS gatherings in al-Zawiya area in Haditha district (160 km west of Ramadi) resulting in the death of 8 insurgents and the injury of dozens. The Iraqi army aviation in coordination with al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations also managed to kill 10 militants from ISIS and destroy a hideout in Horan Valley west of Haditha district. The international coalition warplanes managed to bomb two ISIS hideouts in al-Was and Albu Hayat regions western Haditha district, killing 9 ISIS militants, including 4 snipers.[984]
  • 20 September: A British SAS squad of 8 members was ambushed, on a mountain road in Syria, by 30 ISIS fighters but managed to escape without loss, killing 8 jihadis.[985]
  • 20 September: 20 gunmen from ISIS were killed in the district of Baaj west of Mosul, Iraq, after having poisoned food, including a leader called Abu Zeidan.[986] The Iraqi warplanes in coordination with Anbar Operations managed to bomb 5 ISIS vehicles carrying heavy weapons in Husaybah area, (7 km east of Ramadi), resulting in their destruction.[987] The Iraqi army aviation was able today to bomb a gathering of ISIS senior leaders inside a house in al-bobali area in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi). The bombing resulted in the death of 20 senior leaders, as well as causing great material and human losses.[988]
  • 21 September: Syrian rebel fighters destroyed an ISIS weapon storage center in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Syria. They estimated that at least 20 ISIS militants were killed during this attack on the ISIS headquarters. In the meantime, warplanes of the international coalition hit an ISIS military convoy near Jarablus city on the border with Turkey. At least three vehicles were destroyed.[989] ISIS militants carried out two car bomb attacks on Kurdish security checkpoints in the northeastern Syrian city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain). At least eight people were killed and dozens more wounded, including civilians.[990] At least 38 ISIS fighters were killed in airstrikes by the Damascus regime against Palmyra and two other towns held by ISIS in Homs province.[991]
  • 21 September: The 8th artillery division of the Iraqi army shelled an ISIS site in al-Khalediyah Island (23 km east of Ramadi), resulting in the death of 17 elements of the organization and the destruction of 2 vehicles. The army’s air force managed to destroy a store of ammunition in the area of al-Tamim and a headquarters for the ISIS organization near the area of Albu Ziyab north of Ramadi.[992] A force from the Second Iraqi Brigade conducted an attack on gatherings of the ISIS organization in Husaybah area east of Ramadi, killing 12 ISIS militants and burning many of their vehicles. The rocket launchers destroyed five vital targets of ISIS east of Ramadi, including a workshop for booby-trapping vehicles and training roofs near the area of al-Sadda.[993]
  • 22 September: At least 38 ISIS fighters were killed in airstrikes by the Damascus regime against three jihadi-held towns in central Syria.[991]
  • 22 September: The international coalition warplane, in coordination with the intelligence of Anbar operations, managed to bomb two ISIS hideouts and a boat in the regions of Albu Aitha and al-Hamithiya north east of Ramadi, Iraq, killing 15 ISIS gunmen from the organization.[994] Warplanes bombed a store of weapons and a manufacture of improvised explosive devices belonging to ISIS in al-Sofiya area east of Ramadi. The bombing resulted in the killing of 16 ISIS members and wounding 20 others.[995] ISIS executed 27 of its wounded gunmen in the old prison of Mosul. The organization is unable to cure its injured gunmen because of the lack of health and medical capabilities.[996] Iraqi fighter planes, in coordination with Anbar Operations Command, bombed three ISIS headquarters in al-boshagel and al-malahma areas in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi), killing 5 ISIS members and in the destruction of 2 vehicles for the organization.[997] The international warplanes targeted the vehicle of the so-called ISIS Police Chief, Jassim Mohammed Shaker, at the entrance of Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk).[998]
  • 22 September: Cameroon's army killed 11 Boko Haram militants in clashes in the northern town of Amchide.[999]
  • 23 September: An air strikes on sites belonging to ISIS, killed 5 ISIS leaders including the so-called Abu Islam, an Australian leader in al-Khurasani Battalion, and Abu al-Haq al-Ansari, the commander of the so-called al-Angamasien Battalion. The raid also resulted in the killing of the so-called Abu Mohammed al-Kuintabi, a media official in the organization, along with the transportation leader Abu Obeida al-Jachami and the death of the explosives expert Yasser al-Jumaili.[1,000] The joint security forces foiled a car bomb attack by a suicide bomber that tried to target a security post in the area of Baladrooz (30 km east of Baqubah),Iraq. The suicide bomber was killed in the bombing of his vehicle, remotely, without any losses.[1,001] A local source in Salahuddin province announced that an element belonging to ISIS beheaded his leader because of harassing his wife in the area of Sharqat district in Salah AL-Dien, Iraq.[1,002] Federal Iraqi Police announced that its forces seized a laboratory for booby-trapping vehicles in an area north-east of Tikrit in Salahuddin province, and managed to kill 25 ISIS elements in the area of Baiji.[1,003]
  • 23 September: More than 100 people were killed, including 30 civilians and at least 70 ISIS fighters, in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra under airstrikes by Syrian air forces.[1,004] The YPG regained the villages of Tananir and Umm Hajar in the vicinity of Tel Brak town in the eastern countryside of Hasakah. ISIS militants had evacuated their headquarters in Tananir and Umm Hajar amid intensive shelling by the Kurdish forces. At least seven terrorists were killed and dozens wounded in addition of the destruction of an ISIS vehicle and the seizing a large deal of ammunition, during the clashes. Two Kurdish fighters were wounded. In the meantime, warplanes of the international coalition targeted ISIS tactical units in the vicinity of al-Hawl town near the border with Iraq, destroying two vehicles and killing several militants. The coalition has also targeted ISIS fighting positions on the outskirts of Shaddadi town south of Hasakah with several airstrikes killing and injuring at least 15 militants.[1,005]
  • 24 September: More than 170 ISIS militants were killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul during airstrikes by the international coalition. The hospitals of Mosul received corpses of 171 ISIS members. They were all killed during the airstrikes. Dozens others were killed during operations by Iraqi forces near Baiji, south of Mosul. A medical source in Mosul confirmed the death of dozens of ISIS militants after being badly injured during the strikes.[1,006] The Iraqi warplanes were able to bomb seven ISIS vehicles carrying fighters and weapons in al-Malahma area and Tel Mshahydh east of Ramadi, resulting in the killing of 20 militants of the organization and the injury of 20 others, as well as destroying the vehicles. The Air Falcons, in coordination with Anbar Operations, were able to destroy two ISIS vehicles in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, as well as the destruction of an armored excavator and a fuel tank.[1,007] The international coalition warplanes bombed arms stores in locations in Rashad and areas around Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk). The bombing resulted in the killing of 17 elements of the organization and the burning of two vehicles.[1,008]
  • 24 September: At least 15 ISIS militants were killed and 22 others wounded during clashes with YPG in the vicinity of Sarrin town near Kobane, Syria.[1,009]
  • 24 September: Yemen’s branch of ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa that killed at least 29 people.[1,010]
  • 25 September: YPG launched an attack on headquarters of ISIS in Jarabulus, city north of Aleppo, Syria. The shelling hit at least five ISIS targets killing and injuring dozens of terrorists.[1,011]
  • 25 September: A force from the Iraqi army’s 7th brigade backed by the First Martyr Brigades, known as Buraq forces, were able to repel the attack of the ISIS on the defensive lines of the security forces in the district of al-Baghdadi (90 km west of Ramadi). Five ISIS militants, including a sniper were killed during the clashes.[1,012] Irqi Defense Ministry announced, that Anbar Operations Command was able to cleanse a number of areas in the province, indicating to the death of more than 350 "terrorists" and the bombing of more than 30 car bombs.[1,013]
  • 25 September: Some 200 members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group have given themselves up, in the town of Banki, Nigeria, on the border with Cameroon.[1,014]
  • 26 September: Warplanes of the international coalition, along with the Iraqi Army Aviation and the army’s 8th artillery brigade, bombarded targets belonging to ISIS in Khalediya Island east of Ramadi, inflicting material and human losses upon the organization.[1,015] ISIS has executed two Iraqi female lawyers in the city of Mosul.[1,016]
  • 26 September: Saudi security forces engaged in a gunbattle with two brothers suspected of belonging to the militant group Islamic State. The shoot-out followed the distribution of a video online this week allegedly showing one of the brothers shooting dead a cousin, who was a member of the Saudi security forces. One of the brothers Abdul Aziz al-Anzi, 18, was killed, while his brother Saad, 21, was arrested and wounded during the shoot-out in the desert province of Ha’il.[1,017]
  • 27 September: Iraqi army units continue its activities to cleanse Anbar province from terrorism, where the federal police artillery had bombed ISIS sites, resulting in the death of 8 terrorists, including a senior leader in the organization, as well as the destruction of 8 vehicles. The police also killed eight terrorists in Tel Sheikh Masood area. The international coalition warplanes destroyed seven rocket launchers and killed a terrorist group in albu Shajel.[1,018] Iraqi Army Aviation conducted an air strike against Kabisa plant in Anbar province, killing about 40 leaders of the organization. The bombing led to the destruction of tens of vehicles for ISIS.[1,019]
  • 27 September: ISIS militants have targeted a checkpoint held by Syrian regime forces near the Panorama roundabout at the southern entrance of Hasakah city, Syria. At least three regime security forces were killed in the attack. The mortar attack was followed by clashes between ISIS militants and pro-regime forces in the vicinity of Panorama roundabout, where light and heavy weapons were used. Two ISIS militants were killed during the clashes. In the meantime, Syrian warplanes launched several airstrikes on ISIS positions in Geweran neighborhood. Three ISIS vehicles were destroyed during the strikes.[1,020] French forces launched for the first time several airstrikes, in Syria. The strikes targeted a training camp for the Islamic State in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.[1,021] This airstrike resulted in the death of 30 ISIS members, including 12 child soldiers, and 20 wounded.[1,022]
  • 28 September: A force from the Iraqi Federal police was able to carry out an attack with rockets on a vehicle belonging to ISIS carrying its elements in al- Madiaq area (9 km east of Ramadi), resulting in the death of five militants from the organization and the destruction of the vehicle. The Federal police also managed to kill seven militants from the organization, including the senior leader Dawood Ahmed Al-Bilawi, during a security operation that targeted their hideout in the eastern axis of Ramadi. Another force also managed to kill eight ISIS militants, in addition to destroying three vehicles of the organization in the region of Husaybah and Tel Massoud east of Ramadi.[1,023] An ISIS-led car bomb attack hit an Iraqi military base that was housing army and allied Hashd Shaabi paramilitary militias. The blast, which occurred near the town of Garma, left several casualties among Iraqi forces. 13 members of the armed forces were killed and several others injured during the attack. In the meantime, Iraqi army forces bombed the ISIS-held town of Kubaisah with heavy artillery and airstrikes. At least 22 people killed in Kubaisah, including seven ISIS militants.[1,024]
  • 28 September: Two suspected ISIS militants have been killed and three others arrested during a series of counterterrorism raids in Saudi Arabia, in sites around Riyadh and the city of Dammam.[1,025]
  • 29 September: ISIS claimed responsibility for the shooting death of an Italian aid worker in Dhaka, Bangladesh; if confirmed this would be their first attack in Bangladesh.[1,026]
  • 29 September: Unidentified snipers targeted ISIS elements recently in the neighborhoods of al-Intisar and al Faisaliah in the city of Mosul, Iraq, resulting in the death of 10 of them.[1,027] An Iraqi security force killed the ISIS Mufti of North Baghdad State and arrested two terrorists, while a suicide bomber blew himself up in the place of the clash.[1,028] The international coalition warplanes bombed two locations in the village of Sayad Khalaf, located in the area of Riyad in Hawija district (55 km southwest of Kirkuk). The strike resulted in the death of 10 elements of the organization and the destruction of 2 vehicles.[1,029] The international coalition bombed Qayyarah oil refinery in Qayyarah District (60 km south of Nineveh), resulting in the death of 10 members of the organization and wounding 12 others. The aerial bombardment resulted in destroying nine tanks that were filled by the organization for the purpose of the transfer of crude oil from the refinery.[1,030] A force from the federal police clashed with members of ISIS with grenades and rockets in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi, killing 9 militants from the organization and destroying 4 defensive positions. Another force from federal police belonging to the Third Commandos Brigade managed to kill 3 militants from ISIS and destroy a vehicle that was carrying large amounts of gear and projectiles near the water tank in Albu Bale area east of Ramadi.[1,031]
  • 30 September: The Peshmerga forces gained control of 13 villages in Irak; 9 villages in the area of Kabiba in al-Dabs district (45 km northwest of Kirkuk). Those forces liberated 4 villages in Riyad area (55 km south-west of Kirkuk).[1,032] This strategic operation led the killing of more than 40 ISIS terrorists.[1,033] Falcons Intelligence Cell targeted a plant for booby-trapping vehicles and explosive belts by an air strike that resulted in the destruction of a range of missiles and gear, as well as killing more than 15 ISIS elements in Fallujah. The same Iraqi Cell managed to launch an accurate air strike on an ISIS hideout in al-Jazeera area, in which there was a meeting of ISIS gangs attended by senior leaders from Mosul, Salahuddin and Anbar, indicating that more than 20 members were killed.[1,034] the Ministry of Awqaf in Iraqi Kurdistan region announced that 250 Kurdish militants were killed, in the past period, within the ranks of ISIS.[1,035]
  • 30 September: Russian aerospace force jets supposedly delivered pinpoint strikes on eight ISIS terror group targets in Syria. In total, 20 flights were made. As a result, arms and fuel depots and military equipment were hit. Supposed ISIS coordination centers in the mountains were totally destroyed. The de facto ISIS capital Raqqa, was also targeted, killing at least 12 jihadists.[1,036][1,037]

October 2015[edit]

  • 1 October: ISIS has arrested, in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, some 8 militants who were trying to desert the group and flee to Turkey. Dozens of ISIS members had deserted the group and crossed into Turkey in the past few months. Most of them were foreign nationals who had lately recognized the brutality of the alleged caliphate towards Muslim citizens in Syrian and Iraq.[1,038] Russian Air Force destroyed ISIS command center, training camp. Their planes bombed a field camp in Aleppo province, a logistics center in Idlib province and a command point at a fortified facility in Hama province. Once again however, many of these targets were in fact in Syrian opposition-held areas where ISIS has no presence. This is of relevance as the Syrian opposition is in fact at war with ISIS and is engaged in very heavy clashes with them in the vicinity of the northern Syrian city of Marea as well as in the southern province of Daraa, raising questions as to the true target of the Russian air campaign [1,039]
  • 1 October: Austrian authorities jailed 3 Chechen nationals suspected of links with ISIS radical group.[1,040]
  • 1 October: The Iraqi security forces were able, today, to kill 10 ISIS elements in the area of al-Mallab south of Ramadi. The senior leader and military commander in the region Abu Abdullah al-Saudi, who is a Saudi national, was among the dead.[1,041] The rockets battalion of the federal police was able to bomb a number of headquarters belonging to ISIS in Jowaibah area east of Ramadi, killing 22 militants from the organization, including 6 foreigners. The bombing also resulted in the destruction of 4 vehicles that had carried 106-guns and a mono gun.[1,042] The international coalition carried out an air raid that targeted the headquarters of ISIS militants in Qayyarah refinery (60 km south of Mosul), resulting in the killing and wounding of more than 50 people of the organization and the destruction of a large part of their military arsenal and vehicles.[1,043]
  • 2 October: A force from Assad Brigade had managed to repel an attack by ISIS on the defensive lines of the Iraqi troops in the area of Burwana in Haditha District (160 km west of Ramadi). Violent confrontations and clashes took place between the brigade and elements of ISIS, resulting in the death of 8 ISIS members while the others escaped.[1,044] The Anbar’s ninth emergency regiment was able to shoot down a drone belonging to the ISIS near the area of Krishan east of Ramadi.[1,045] The international coalition aircraft bombed the so-called the legitimacy court, the office of calculation and main headquarters of ISIS in Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), resulting in the killing of 15 militants, including 3 prominent leaders, and injured 20 others.[1,046]
  • 2 October: ISIS attacked headquarters of the Kurdish YPG near Mount Abdulaziz in the countryside of Hasakah. The terror group has first conducted 3 car bomb attacks in the vicinity of the YPG security centers in the area, then launched dozens of mortar shells on the YPG-held villages of Jafar and Dawoodiyah. At least 6 Kurdish fighters were killed and more than 10 others wounded during the ISIS offensive. The YPG have subsequently evacuated several centers to avoid the intensive fire by the ISIS terrorists.[1,047] At least ten people, including 3 civilians, were killed and 7 others were wounded when a car bomb attack hit a Kurdish security checkpoint in the vicinity of Tel Temir town in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah.[1,048]
  • 2 October: Boko Haram attack on a village in southeastern Niger killed two Nigerien soldiers, wounded 7 others and also destroyed an army vehicle.[1,049]
  • 2 October: 3 ISIS members were arrested in Chechnya.[1,050]
  • 3 October: ISIS claimed responsibility for shooting and killing a Japanese man in the Rangpur District of Bangladesh. The second murder of a foreigner committed by ISIS in the country within a week; they warned of more attacks.[1,051]
  • 3 October: Warplanes of the international coalition conducted an air strike on ISIS sites in villages belonging to the districts of al-Riyad, al-Rashad and the outskirts of al-Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), Iraq, resulting in the death of 8 elements of the organization, including 2 senior leaders, and injuring 11 others.[1,052] Fighters from the Nujaba Movement carried out a security operation in Saqlawiyah in northern Fallujah, Iraq, killing the ISIS leader, Safaa Khamis Ali al-Khalafawi, and two of his aides.[1,053] The Iraqi Air Force conducted an air strike, in coordination with the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency, resulting in the death of the so-called ISIS intelligence director, after returning from the Syrian area of Al Rigga to al-Safra area in Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk), along with a large numbers of ISIS elements that were gathering in a hideout. A senior leader was killed in al-Abbasi village with his companions in another hideout in Hawija district.[1,054]
  • 3 October: the YPG forces besieged ISIS militants near Mount Abdulaziz, Syria, and killed at least 28 terrorists and destroyed several vehicles. The same, the Kurdish forces repelled an offensive by ISIS militants in several villages in the western countryside of Hasakah, including Bdej, Ghara, Tel Hamam and Jafra.[1,055]
  • 4 October: The forces of Iraqi Anti-Terrorism have been able to liberate the Olympic Stadium west of Ramadi. Dozens of ISIS elements were killed and wounded.[1,056] The Iraqi Peace Brigades forces managed to free the area of al-Layin which extends 62 km in western Samarra (40 km south of Tikrit). The area was fully liberated by a tactical operation. The forces have killed more than 30 ISIS militants.[1,057]
  • 4 October: Kurdish fighters of the YPG, supported by female fighters of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), have regained 3 villages near Mount Abdulaziz in the western countryside of Hasakah, Syria. At least 27 ISIS militants were killed during the clashes and 6 others taken as hostages by the Kurdish forces.[1,058]
  • 4 October: Spanish and Moroccan authorities arrested 10 suspects for links with the radical group of Islamic State.[1,059]
  • 5 October: A force from the federal Iraqi police was able to target 3 locations belonging to ISIS in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi, killing 7 militants from the organization and destroying weapons depot, in addition to a vehicle carrying weapons.[1,060] ISIS had abducted 70 civilians from Albonmr clan in Thar Thar area, north of Ramadi and then executed them.[1,061] The international coalition aircraft launched intensive air raids targeted the gatherings of ISIS in Abticha village (50 km west of Mosul), which resulted in killing and wounding at least 25 members of the organization.[1,062] Air Falcons Cell carried out a successful air strike and managed to kill 20 militants, including 15 Arab and foreign suicide bombers; they were gathering in a house in Qaim in Anbar.[1,063] The Peshmerga forces repelled an attack by a group of ISIS militants driving vehicles which had carried medium-weapons in an attempt to target gatherings of Peshmerga in the axis of al-Gharra in the district of al-Dabs (45 km northwest of Kirkuk). A number of ISIS elements were either killed or wounded, including a senior commander named Abu Muhajir al-Liybi.[1,064]
  • 5 October : ISIS launched a full-scale assault on the provincial capital of the Deir Ezzor Governorate, attacking the Syrian Armed Forces’ frontline defenses at the Military Airport; the Al-Sina’a, Al-Haweeqa, and Al-‘Amal Districts; and the village of Al-Muri’iyah. This offensive totally failed and resulted in the death of around 150 ISIS members.[1,065] 3 jets of the Russian Airforce carried out strikes on 2 IS targets in the eastern part of Homs province near the city of Palmyra. About 20 units of medium T-55 tanks, which were earlier seized by the militants from the Syrian army, have been destroyed as well as 3 multiple rocket launchers.[1,066]
  • 6 October: The Tunisian police arrested 11 suspected of recruiting fighters for ISIS in Libya.[1,067]
  • 6 October: ISIS has executed about 27 of its elements in Hawija district in the province of Kirkuk, in Iraq, because of their escape from the battlefield.[1,068] The security forces were able to cleanse the areas of Albu Faraj and Humera and kill dozens of the ISIS elements during fierce battles, in which the army troops and the Iraqi police have made a significant progress in the areas of Albu Aath and Albu Joleb.[1,069]
  • 6 October: Subsequent to fierce battles against ISIS fighters, Kurdish forcers of the YPG have regained 17 villages in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria. This comes after ISIS militants launched an offensive on Kurdish-held areas in the countryside of Hasakah, followed by temporary evacuation by YPG forces who then attacked ISIS positions and killed at least 106 ISIS militants and captured 10 wounded fighters.[1,070] Russian jets hit ISIS targets in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The strikes destroyed 20 vehicles and 3 weapons depots in Islamic State-held Palmyra.[1,071]
  • 7 October: ISIS suffered heavy losses, against Syrian Army, after another failed offensive in Deir Ezzor military airport, in Syria.[1,072] ISIS carried out two car bomb attacks on a Kurdish security checkpoint in Tel Abyad city north of Syria’s Raqqa. At least 2 Kurdish fighters of the YPG were killed and 3 more wounded. Subsequent to the terrorist attacks, clashes broke out at the southern entrance of Tel Abyad between the YPG forces and ISIS terrorists. A group of terrorists tried to infiltrat into the liberated city during the attacks, but the Kurdish fighters killed at least 10 terrorists, while the rest escaped towards Raqqa city.[1,073]
  • 7 October: 28 ISIS members had been either killed or wounded in an aerial bombardment by the international coalition in different parts of Mosul, Iraq.[1,074] ISIS militants have used improvised explosive devices to bomb a well of the Khabaz oil field in Hawija area in Kirkuk.[1,075]
  • 7 October: The Nigerian Army killed over 100 Boko Haram terrorists after they made attempts to attack 120 Task Force Battalion troops, located at Goniri, Yobe State. During the encounter, the terrorists killed 7 soldiers and wounded 9 others.[1,076]
  • 8 October: 5 ISIS Iraqi members surrendered to the Peshmerga forces in the village of Saqi in Alkwyr axis, in Iraq.[1,077] The Iraqi police in Madyaq area (9 km east of Ramadi) fired three rockets towards an ISIS vehicle, killing 9 members of the organization and destroying the vehicle. The rapid intervention force managed to kill 4 ISIS elements in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi.[1,078]
  • 8 October: General Hossein Hamedani, An Iranian military commander, who was overseeing the Quds Force and advising Syrian Army, was killed by ISIS militants on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria.[1,079]
  • 8 October: 11 Chadian soldiers have been killed in the most recent Boko Haram attack in the country, while 13 others have been reportedly wounded.[1,080]
  • 8 October: Antiterror police in Russia’s Chechen Republic have killed 3 suspected ISIS militants, coming back from Syria, in two separate shootouts. 2 law enforcement officials were wounded during the operation.[1,081]
  • 9 October: 2 French Rafale jets carried out a second wave of strikes in Syria on an ISIS training camp.[1,082] Russian air forces claimed to kill 2 senior ISIS field commanders among the 300 fighters from several Islamic groups, including ISIS.[1,083]
  • 9 October: The international coalition aircraft bombed, this morning, sites belonging to the ISIS organization in villages in al-Rashad District (35 km southwest of Kirkuk), in Iraq, killing 6 elements of the organization, including 2 leaders, and injuring 21 others.[1,084] A force from Anbar operations shelled with artillery and rockets, this morning, 17 vehicles for ISIS carrying militants and equipment in the eastern axis of the city of Ramadi, killing 19 element of the organization and injuring 35 others.[1,085]
  • 10 October: During the last 24 hours, the Syrian army, in coordination with the Russian Air Force, liberated the imperative city of Jabboul (6 km from the surrounded Kuweires Military Airport, also called Rasin El Aboud, hold by the Syrian Army) after intense firefights with ISIS.[1,086] Fierce clashes took place in the vicinity of Marouh village (15 km south of Sirrin town). The YPG forces were able to thwart the militants schemes and destroyed a number of armored vehicles, beside killing 3 militants at least and wounding several others.[1,087]
  • 10 October: The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and the Anbari Tribesmen have captured the northern suburbs of Ramadi and as a result the city hold by ISIS since May 2015 is now surrounded.[1,088] ISIS executed more than 50 people; most of them are members of the organization in Doulab area in al-Baghdadi district, west of Anbar. The reason for their execution goes back to being accused of treason and spying for the security forces.[1,089] ISIS militants had beheaded 10 of its elements on charges of treason and cooperation with the government in Hawija market (55 km southwest of Kirkuk).[1,090] The international coalition aircraft bombed ISIS sites in Kirkuk and another site in the center of the Military District in Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk). The bombing resulted in the death of 8 ISIS Chechen elements, in addition to 12 Chechens and Arabs wounded.[1,091] 4 ISIS militants came to a Peshmerga front line to surrender in the township of Gwer.[1,092]
  • 11 October: 3 ISIS militants who were Kurdish nationals escaped from Mosul and arrived at a Peshmerga front line in Kirkuk to surrender.[1,092] The Iraqi Air Force and the army have launched painful strikes against ISIS in Albu Shajl area in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi), killing 20 members of the organization and wounding 15 others.[1,093] Iraqi air forces have bombed the convoy of the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was heading to Karabla to attend a meeting with ISIS commanders. Al-Baghdadi was "wounded" in the airstrike, while three of his deputies were killed including the dead including Abu Saed al-Karbuli, a top terrorist commander, and another leading Islamic State figure, a Georgian-born Chechen known by the name of Abu Omar al-Shishani. The report of the commanders’ death has not been officially verified as of yet. The Baghdad Information Center confirmed reports that al-Baghdadi and some of his top commanders had been injured late on Sunday, but refuted earlier claims that warlord al-Karbuli was killed. The health condition of al-Baghdadi is still unclear at the moment. The location of the meeting was also bombed and many of the group’s leaders were killed and wounded. Hospital sources and local residents earlier told Reuters that 8 senior local IS figures were killed in the airstrikes which hit two houses.[1,094][1,095]
  • 12 October: The Iraqi Air Force, in coordination with Anbar Operations Command, was able to destroy a headquarter and a warehouse of equipment and weapons belonging to the organization in al-Hafa and Alboyousef areas east of Ramadi, killing 5 members of the organization and wounding 7 others.[1,096]
  • 12 October: At least 13 ISIS militants were killed in clashes with the Kurdish forces of the YPG in the southern countryside of Kobane, northern Syria.[1,087] Hamid Mokhtarband and Brigadier General Farshad Hassounizadeh, Two senior commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), died while assisting the Syrian government’s battle against ISIS militant.[1,097]
  • 13 October: The warplanes bombed the ISIS headquarters in the district of al-Rutba (310 km west of Ramadi), near the Iraqi border of al-Walid with Syria. The bombing has killed the ISIS leader, known as Mohamed Khalif, along with a number of his aides. Khalif was responsible for the occupation of the border in al-Walid.[1,098] ISIS executed 25 people from the inhabitants of different regions south of Mosul, including former elements in the security forces; on charges of cooperating with the security forces and al-Hashed al-Shaabi fighters, as well as providing them with information on its headquarters and its elements.[1,099]
  • 13 October: At least 6 ISIS militants were killed in clashes with Kurdish forces of the YPG near Ain Issa town in Raqqa province, northeastern Syria.[1,100] Sporadic clashes broke out between militants of the Islamic State and the Kurdish forces of the YPG in the western and southeastern areas of Hasakah province in northeastern Syria. 4 ISIS militants were killed in clashes near Dawoodiya village.[1,101]
  • 14 October: The Iraqi Air Force, in coordination with Anbar Operations Command, bombed headquarters and warehouses belonging to ISIS in Albu Shajel area in Khalidiya Island, (23 km east of Ramadi). The bombing resulted in the death of 12 elements of the organization and the injury of 10 others.[1,102] 60% of the axes and the entrances surrounding Ramadi have been liberated from ISIS, during the confrontations and battles of Ramadi liberation. The security forces of the Iraqi army and police carried out extensive military operations that were considered the deadliest of its kind against the terrorist organization, killing 40 elements of the organization.[1,103] The Iraqi Air Force, in coordination with Anbar Operations, managed to bomb a convoy of ISIS vehicles that was heading from Albu Shajl area to Fallujah, 40 km to the east of Ramadi. The bombing resulted in the death of 25 elements of the organization and wounding 30 others, in addition to destroying 9 vehicles.[1,104] The joint security forces were able to kill the newly appointed ISIS Governor of al-Doulab area belonging to the district of al-Baghdadi near Ainul-Assad base.[1,105]
  • 14 October: The joint security forces and al-Hashed al-Shaabi have liberated Baiji refinery, in addition to seizing 3 armored carriers (BTR) on the outskirts of the refinery and killing dozens of ISIS elements.[1,106] The military commander of ISIS in Baiji refinery was killed as well.[1,107] The battles to liberate Salah al-Din areas (170 km north of Baghdad) resulted so far in the death of 7 security forces elements in addition of 12 wounded.[1,108] ISIS executed 14 of its own elements, who had fled from Baiji battles.[1,109]
  • 15 October: ISIS has executed 2 of its supporters on various charges in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.[1,110] Fierce clashes hit the vicinity of the regime-held military base of Mount Kawkab after attempts by ISIS militants to break into the base. More than 5 regime forces were killed in a mortar attack by ISIS near Kawkab army base.[1,111] ISIS managed to catch 35 of its elements in Abu Kamal area in Syria, after they had tried to flee to Turkey.[1,112]
  • 15 October: Iraqi Sukhoi aircraft conducted an air strike that targeted the terrorists, resulting in the destruction of three ISIS hideouts and killing a number of them. The strike destroyed a convoy of ISIS gangs that was heading to Mosul.[1,113] The international coalition bombed the so-called ISIS Hisba Office in the neighborhood of Sarai in the centre of Hawija district (65 km southwest of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of 20 members of the organization.[1,114]
  • 16 October: Warplanes of the international coalition targeted one of the ISIS headquarters in the district of Heet (70 km west of Anbar), Iraq, resulting in the death of 35 elements of the organization, including senior leaders.[1,115]
  • 16 October: the Tunisian prominent preacher Kamel Zarrouk, a key recruiter of the Islamic State in Syria, has been killed in Raqqa, in international coalition airstrike.[1,116]
  • 16 October: A gunman shot and killed 5 people in an Islamic State-claimed attack on a Shia meeting hall in Saudi Arabia before being shot dead by police.[1,117]
  • 16 October: Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired rockets and mortars at what it said were Islamic State fighters trying to infiltrate in the north of the country, killing 5 of them.[1,118]
  • 17 October: ISIS militants have been striving for 3 days to break into the Syrian military base of Mount Kawkab, in eastern Hasakah. A total of 9 pro-Assad soldiers were reportedly killed in the recent clashes while defending Kawkab army base. ISIS has lost at least 5 militants in the clashes.[1,119] Fierce clashes hit the YPG-held Tel Abyad suburb in the northern countryside of Raqqa province between the Kurdish forces of the YPG and ISIS. At least 7 ISIS extremists were reportedly killed and several others wounded.[1,120]
  • 17 October: The Turkish special forces arrested at least 50 foreigners in the city of Istanbul, who were planning to join ISIS in Syria and Iraq.[1,121]
  • 17 October: The joint Iraqi forces launched a major security operation in al-Baghdadi District and managed to kill 3 members of ISIS and dismantle 20 improvised explosive device. The operation also resulted in the destruction of 10 tanks that were filled with C4 materials, in addition to killing a suicide bomber and the destruction of their vehicle.[1,122] The eastern part of Baghdadi (90 km west of Ramadi) has been controlled by the security forces, after a large-scale military operation by the fighters of al-Hashed al-Shaabi and clans, in addition to the attribution of the air force. The security forces and tribal fighters have killed 125 ISIS elements, including suicide bombers, they also have destroyed 8 vehicles and dismantled 250 explosive devices.[1,123]
  • 18 October: The Russian warplanes destroyed a network of fortified tunnels in Talbisseh town in Homs province, that has been used by ISIS militants to hide from the Syrian army troops. They have also destroyed an advanced supply point in Damascus province, used by ISIS to deliver ammunition and other supplies.[1,124] An ISIS convoy of 16 vehicles was hit as it drove through an eastern part of Hama province overnight. It resulted in the death of at least 40 militants. The planes which conducted the airstrikes could be Russian or Syrian.[1,125]
  • 18 October: The security forces from the Iraqi army and federal police backed by al-Hashed al-Shaabi attacked ISIS in Hawija from three axes. Formations of al-Hashed al-Shaabi, including Badr Organization, and the security forces were able to control Rashad area from the axis of Alas and Ajil, the joint forces killed 30 ISIS elements.[1,126] Iraqi air force launched a crushing blow targeting a convoy of vehicles carrying dozens of ISIS militants in the area of al-Fatha north of Salah al-Din; killing 20 of them and destroying seven vehicles carrying weapons.[1,127] A mortar shell fired by ISIS fell on a gathering of al-Hashed al-Shaabi elements in Hamrin Mountains region during the ongoing military operations to cleanse the area, resulting in the death of 5 elements and wounding 8 others.[1,128] The security forces and Anti-terrorism were able to liberate Albu Risha area north of Ramadi.[1,129] Warplanes of the international coalition targeted a group of ISIS elements in western Mosul. The air strike killed 5 ISIS militants while they were planting explosives in one of the main roads.[1,130] A British ISIS fighter has carried out a devastating suicide bomb attack near the jihadi held city of Ramadi in Iraq. An ISIS statement claimed that the fighter, known only as Abu Omar al-Britani, had taken part in a twin suicide bomb attack, killing and wounding 80 people. The second suicide bomber is thought to be a Syrian national, named as Abu Qatiba al-Shami.[1,131] An element from the Anti-Terrorism Forces fired missiles against a booby-trapped vehicle, destroying it and killing the suicide bomber before reaching the forces, in north of the city of Ramadi just after the liberation of Albu Risha area.[1,132]
  • 19 October: The Iraqi army aviation conducted an air strike in the area of al-Fatha in Baiji north of Tikrit, resulting in the death of the ISIS military commander who lives in the village of al-Huriyyah in the district of al-Sharqat.[1,133] The security forces repelled an ISIS attack on the eastern side of Baiji (40 km north of Tikrit), killing 70 militants.[1,134] The international coalition carried out several air strikes against ISIS sites near Sheikh Khans village near Sinjar, resulting in the death of 48 elements of the organization. Another strikes against ISIS sites on the road to Mosul, killed 5 members of the organization, in addition to destroying the site of launching Katyusha rockets and a car bomb.[1,135] Falcons Intelligence Cell managed to target the headquarters of ISIS senior leaders, booby-trapping factories and their gatherings in different regions.[1,136] A force from al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations managed to shell gatherings for ISIS elements in the area of Albu Hayat east of Haditha (160 km west of Ramadi), resulting in the death of 10 elements of the organization.[1,137]
  • 20 October: The coalition aircraft targeted this morning ISIS sites in the villages of Al-Dakmat and Wadi Abu Khanajir in the area of al-Safra Airport in Rashad area (65 km) south of Kirkuk, killing 4 elements of the organization and injuring 7 others.[1,138] The international coalition aircraft launched massive air raids targeting ISIS gatherings in Shakholi village in Khazar area (45 km east of Mosul). The raids resulted in killing 10 elements of the organization.[1,139] ISIS executed 18 civilians in Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk) accusing them of spying and cooperation with the government and casting information on its positions.[1,140]
  • 20 October: Hajeb Mizhir al-Jayji, who served as ISIS finance minister has been reported killed along with 6 of his bodyguards near the sub-district of Budush in western Mosul.[1,141]
  • 21 October: A force from the federal Iraqi police managed to kill 9 members of ISIS, after targeting their vehicle in Jowiba area east of Ramadi.[1,142] ISIS targeted the district of Amiriyah al-Fallujah (23 km south of Fallujah) with a number of rockets that landed on residential houses, injuring a woman and 3 children and causing material damage to their homes.[1,143]

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