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An Iraqi parliamentary committee says that former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and other officials were to blame for allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to overrun Mosul last year, and has called for them to face trial. (aljazeera.com)
An American fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said June 10, making him likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside them against the extremists. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
The goal was to help rebuild Iraq's destroyed homes, schools and hospitals, as well as revive its demolished infrastructure and economy following the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) armed group. (aljazeera.com)
In the north the Kurds have been on the offensive around Mosul and have used their better training and leadership, as well as American air support, to appear unbeatable to many of the ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) fighters facing them. (strategypage.com)
But the Nov. 13 terrorist attack on Paris changed that agenda, and President Barack Obama pledged to redouble efforts against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (af.mil)
Mumuni was an accomplice of Munther Omar Saleh, a student at a college in Queens, NY, who was also separately charged with plotting a bomb attack in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (investigativeproject.org)
He received radical religious and military trainings under the illegal armed groups in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the self-declared capital of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is not provided by the legislations of the republics of Syria, Iraq and Azerbaijan. (apa.az)
After the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a vast part of Iraq was destroyed. (unv.org)
A man displays an Iraqi army jacket in front of a burnt out US-made Iraqi army Humvee vehicle east of the city of Mosul, on June 11, 2014, a day after Sunni militants including fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran the city. (theworld.org)
Within a matter of days, the Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its allies have overrun the second largest city in Iraq - Mosul - and several other towns. (theworld.org)
Editor's note: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is also translated at Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, for short. (theworld.org)
A recent analysis of satellite photos of areas controlled by ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) in Iraq and Syria showed some interesting differences. (strategypage.com)
That may have been al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (brobible.com)
The radical Islamic group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is holding 49 Turkish diplomats and family members, including children, captive. (voanews.com)
Police detained 82 Islamic State, Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) suspects during an operation in Istanbul on Feb. 2, according to a police source. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Originally, Zarqawi's goal had been to establish a "Caliphate" in Iraq, and in its new guise, his successor Baghdadi employs his armed groups to establish an "Islamic state" (which on a semantic level is basically synonymous with the term caliphate) in the lands of Mesopotamia and the Levant. (rt.com)
It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and Sinjar District in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate and was perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). (wikipedia.org)
Sinjar was predominantly inhabited by Yazidis before the arrival of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant . (wikipedia.org)
The SDF is leading the battle to liberate the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( Isil ) and has been provided with weapons and training by the US military. (novinite.com)
Washington has tried to placate Ankara by promising that all weapons provided to the YPG would be taken back once Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( Isil ) was defeated. (novinite.com)
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (ibtimes.com)
The group, which shortened its name after June's offensive from the Islamic State inIraq and the Levant (ISIL), has stalled in its drive to reach Baghdad, halting just before the town of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital. (ibtimes.com)
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or DAISH/DAESH in Arabic is a militant group that has called itself the Islamic State. (c-span.org)
The study comes amidst what its authors called a "tectonic shift" in the Middle East triggered in major part by the military successes of the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL). (ipsnews.net)
The study also comes amidst what its authors called a "tectonic shift" in the Middle East triggered in major part by the military successes of the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL), a development that has been greeted by virtually all of the region's regimes, as well as the U.S. - which is trying to patch together an international coalition against the Sunni extremist group - as a major threat. (ipsnews.net)
The Guardian reports that Iraqi government officials in Mosul 'say the city is now effectively in the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group inspired by al-Qaida that has remained in control of parts of Falluja and Ramadi for the past six months. (commondreams.org)
WASHINGTON,(June 27, 2016) - Defense Secretary Ash Carter today congratulated Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Iraqi people for freeing the city of Fallujah from the grip of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (centcom.mil)
People walk through the rubble of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah Mosque after it was destroyed in a bomb attack by militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the city of Mosul, July 24, 2014. (newsmax.com)
The day after Christmas, U.S. forces and its allies hit the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with 31 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. (informationclearinghouse.info)
A picture taken with a mobile phone shows an armoured vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces in flames on June 10, 2014, after hundreds of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a major assault on the security forces in Mosul, some 370 kms north from the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on June 12, 2014, allegedly shows Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants taking part in a military parade in the northern city of Mosul. (nbcnews.com)

ISIL launched an offensive on June 9 last year, overrunning Mosul the next day and then sweeping through large areas north and west of Baghdad. (aljazeera.com)
At least four civilians were killed Monday in the army-held eastern side of Mosul by a chlorine gas attack by the ISIL terrorist group, according to an Iraq i security source. (worldbulletin.net)
In January, Iraqi forces drove ISIL terrorists from eastern Mosul as part of a wide-ranging campaign launched late last year to retake the city, which ISIL overran in mid-2014. (worldbulletin.net)
In mid-February, Iraqi forces -- backed by U.S.-led air power -- began a fresh push to recapture western Mosul, the terrorist group's last stronghold in northern Iraq. (worldbulletin.net)
Not only are ISIL defenders being defeated and destroyed, with little visible loss to the Kurds, but details of these defeats have circulated throughout the ISIL forces defending Mosul. (strategypage.com)
Like Kobane (a historically Kurdish town near the Turkish border) ISIL is obsessed with Mosul. (strategypage.com)
While ISIL never managed to take Kobane, they are determined not to lose Mosul. (strategypage.com)
The outskirts of Mosul has become a place ISIL fighters go to and never return from. (strategypage.com)
The improved tactics and leadership are cutting Mosul off from ISIL reinforcement and gradually lowering the morale, numbers and effectiveness of the defenders. (strategypage.com)
Mosul is basically cut off from the outside world and Raqqa, the largest city in eastern Syria and the ISIL "capital" is also being surrounded. (strategypage.com)
That's because the Kurds take a lot of casualties (by their own standards) when actively attacking ISIL defenders in the dozens of villages outside Mosul. (strategypage.com)
But with little ground support from a feeble Iraq army, it has failed to dislodge ISIL from major population centers like the Iraqi city of Mosul. (politico.com)
The war against ISIL left Ninawa Governorate, the city of Mosul and many surrounding villages reduced to rubble. (unv.org)
The Funding Facility for Initial Stabilization (FFIS) project started in 2015 after ISIL was ousted from Mosul. (unv.org)
ISTANBUL - An Islamist militants' seizure of the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul is stoking concerns Ankara could intervene in the fast-spreading insurgency. (voanews.com)
The entire nation of Iraq is under a declared state of emergency on Tuesday after a military assault by Sunni insurgents overpowered government soldiers in the northern city of Mosul. (commondreams.org)
The advance on Mosul continues as ISIL tries diversion tactics by attacking the Kurds in Kirkuk, without success. (euronews.com)
ISIL is thought to have launched the attack to divert resources from the assault on Mosul, in which Kurdish forces are taking part alongside Iraqi government troops, Shi'ite militias, and special forces from several Western nations. (euronews.com)
Turkish forces could soon be joining the battle for Mosul, as the US Defence Secretary Ash Carter says Turkey and Iraq have agreed on a role for Ankara in retaking the city. (euronews.com)
It is one of a number of outlying towns and villages near Mosul to have been recaptured from ISIL since Sunday. (euronews.com)
The Nabi Yunus shrine, built on the reputed burial site of a prophet known in the Koran as Yunus and in the Bible as Jonah, has been destroyed by the new jihadist rulers of Iraq's northern city of Mosul. (newsmax.com)
The endowment official said the Islamic State jihadist group that overran large swathes of northern and western Iraq last month have now destroyed or damaged 30 shrines, as well as 15 husseiniyas and mosques in and around Mosul. (newsmax.com)
So far, we've seen some important successes: stopping ISIL's advance on Erbil, saving many civilians from a massacre on Mount Sinjar, retaking the Mosul Dam, destroying ISIL targets and fighters across Iraq and Syria. (ucsb.edu)
Eleven years on from the invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein, violent Islamist extremists have captured the country's second-biggest city, Mosul, and is now heading for Baghdad. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
A day after snatching control of the northern city of Mosul, fighters were on Wednesday night within 60 miles of the Iraqi capital, encountering little resistance from government troops. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
They fought alongside the 16th Division in northeast Mosul, and now have been given some areas of the city to hold. (blogspot.com)

Backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria have successfully pushed back ISIL group militants from Kobani and scores of nearby villages. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
But several analysts predicted dramatic action in the coming days - including Special Forces raids on ISIL leaders and heavy airstrikes in Syria, like those conducted by France on Sunday. (politico.com)
A military coalition mostly composed of U.S. air power has conducted more than 8,000 airstrikes against ISIS since August 2014, blunting the group's advance through Syria and Iraq and rolling back some of its gains. (politico.com)
Airstrikes and allies on the ground have taken back significant territory in both Iraq and Syria from ISIL, he noted. (af.mil)
We have a military strategy that involves putting enormous pressure on ISIL through airstrikes, that has put assistance and training on the ground with Iraqi forces," Obama said. (af.mil)
US warplanes carried out several airstrikes against the city Tuesday, according to military spokesmen in Kabul, but Ghani said there would be no full-scale air attack on the city of 300,000 people because of the likelihood of large-scale civilian casualties. (wsws.org)
The total fighting force of Iranian-backed militias and Iraqi regular forces was estimated at up to 30,000, making it the largest operation in Iraq since the U.S. sent more troops to Iraq and began airstrikes last year. (militarytimes.com)
The offensive to take back the key city, called Operation Free Sinjar, began with a series of airstrikes on Thursday. (upi.com)
On 8 August 2014, the United States and the United Kingdom responded with airstrikes on ISIL units and convoys in northern Iraq , which led to a military intervention from several countries against ISIL . (wikipedia.org)
Indeed, as noted by Paul Pillar, a former top CIA Middle East analyst, both countries have recently taken a number of parallel steps in Iraq, notably by encouraging the removal of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and by taking separate military actions - U.S. airstrikes and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) advisers - to help break ISIL's months-long siege of the town of Amerli. (ipsnews.net)
Since the ground operation began May 21, coalition forces have conducted more than 100 airstrikes in support of local ground forces under the command of the government of Iraq, Davis said. (centcom.mil)
And so, in addition to denying ISIL safe haven in Iraq and Syria, in addition to stopping foreign fighters, in addition to the intelligence gathering and airstrikes and ground campaigns that may be developed by the Iraqi security forces, we're also going to have to pay attention to communications. (ucsb.edu)

Reportedly, clashes broke out between Sunni tribes and the ISIL in some provinces that are being controlled by the militants of this terrorist organization. (trend.az)
The militants of ISIL took control over the Iraqi town of Tal Afar on June 16 and the city's military airport also came under their control on June 22. (trend.az)
It was reported on June 25 that the Sunni groups in Iraq are taking up arms against the ISIL militants. (trend.az)
Several reports suggested Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's security forces discarded their uniforms and weapons, fleeing cities without even engaging ISIL, despite the fact that they far outnumber the militants. (theworld.org)
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday he is "very concerned" about reports that Iran and Shiite militias are taking over the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and potentially fueling sectarian strife in that nation. (militarytimes.com)
Photos emerged Monday on social media showing Iranian Quds Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, directing Shiite militias in their fight against IS militants. (militarytimes.com)
U.S. officials are cautiously hopeful that the Iranians and Shiites can help Iraqi forces expel the ISIL militants from Tikrit. (militarytimes.com)
But U.S. officials also worry that involvement of Iranians and Shiite militias in a major battle for a Sunni city could inflame the sectarian tensions that IS militants exploit for political support. (militarytimes.com)
The ISIL Takfiri militants in Syria have kidnapped 56 Christians of the Assyrian minority in the northeastern province of Hasakah, sources say. (presstv.ir)
The ISIL militants, with members from several Western countries, control parts of Syria and Iraq, and have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities. (presstv.ir)
The Monday abductions came amid heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and ISIL militants over the control of several villages in Hasakah. (presstv.ir)
BAGHDAD, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Kurdish forces declared victory over the Islamic State on Friday on the second day of an operation to free the Iraqi city of Sinjar and cut off the militants' supply routes. (upi.com)

Street battles between ISIL fighters and Kurdish forces erupted on Friday in the norther Iraqi city of Kirkuk. (euronews.com)
ISIL seized Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, in May, after government forces had held out against the fighters there for more than a year. (aljazeera.com)
Keith Broomfield, who was from Massachusetts, died June 3 in a battle in a Syrian village named Qentere, near the border town Kobani, said Nasser Haji, an official with a group of Kurdish fighters known as the YPG. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
The fight against the ISIL group has attracted dozens of Westerners, including Iraq war veterans who have made their way back to the Middle East to join Kurdish fighters, who have been most successful against the extremist group. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Many are spurred on by Kurdish social media campaigners and a sense of duty rooted in the 2003 U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq, where ISIL fighters recently have rolled back gains U.S. troops had made. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Scout thoroughly, use aerial surveillance as much as possible and call in air or artillery strikes as soon as you have located ISIL fighters. (strategypage.com)
There has been little good news lately to encourage ISIL fighters or their leaders. (strategypage.com)
The G-20 nations agreed to strengthen border controls, share more information and step up efforts to prevent the flow of foreign fighters in and out of Syria and Iraq. (af.mil)
Hundreds of Taliban fighters overran Kunduz, the fifth-largest city in Afghanistan, Monday, in a major blow to the Obama administration and its puppet government in Kabul, headed by President Ashraf Ghani. (wsws.org)
Taliban forces seized control of the city Monday in a carefully coordinated attack that included assaults from four directions as well as an uprising from inside the city by fighters who had infiltrated during several previous nights. (wsws.org)
There were photos reportedly showing ISIL fighters bulldozing the boundary between Iraq and Syria. (theworld.org)
The Turkish media has been awash with reports of the presence of ISIL fighters in Turkey's border towns with Syria, along with pictures of ISIL fighters being treated in Turkish hospitals. (voanews.com)
Kurdish fighters took back the Iraqi city of Sinjar on Friday after a two-day offensive against the Islamic State. (upi.com)
[24] Kurdistan Regional Government Peshmerga fighters then moved into and took control of much of the abandoned territory in northern Iraq from their stronghold in the Kurdistan Region . (wikipedia.org)
As ISIL attacked Sinjar and neighboring cities, the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Sinjar withdrew, leaving the civilians behind without warning. (wikipedia.org)
The swift defeat of Kurdish "peshmerga" troops dealt a sharp blow to one of the only fighting forces in Iraq that until now had stood firm against the Sunni Islamist fighters who aim to redraw borders of the Middle East. (ibtimes.com)
Islamic State fighters attacked Zumar from three directions in pick-up trucks mounted with weapons, defeating Kurdish forces which had poured reinforcements into the town, witnesses said. (ibtimes.com)
The Islamic State later also seized the town of Sinjar, where witnesses said residents had fled after Kurdish fighters put up little resistance. (ibtimes.com)
The fighters arrived in the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. (ibtimes.com)
Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters here today that the coalition continues to provide support through strikes, intelligence, advice and assistance to Iraqi government fighters operating in Fallujah and will continue to do so as the Iraqi forces switch from taking the city to beginning clearing operations. (centcom.mil)
A combination of sleeper cells and fighters who reportedly entered the city posing as refugee villagers killed 18 soldiers and attacked a major power station on the outskirts, killing plant workers, including two Iranians. (euronews.com)
And because of the numbers of foreign fighters that are being attracted and the chaos that ISIL was creating in the region, ultimately, it will pose a threat beyond the Middle East, including to the United States, Europe, and far-flung countries like Australia that have already seen terrorist networks trying to infiltrate and impact population centers on the other side of the world. (ucsb.edu)

While ISIL worships the past, they don't seem to be learning much from it because the Kurds and their American air support took advantage of ISIL inflexibility in Syria at the Kurdish town of Kobane in early 2015. (strategypage.com)
The Kurdish advance is described as a "shaping operation" to deny ISIL use of key roads for moving their forces or supplies. (strategypage.com)
An ISIL spokesman told an Iraqi Kurdish news organization that no harm will come to the diplomats. (voanews.com)
Last year, the parliament gave the government the power to launch military operations against Kurdish rebel bases in neighboring Iraq, but the mandate expires in September. (voanews.com)
Initially strong Kurdish resistance evaporated after the start of an offensive to take the town of Zumar. (ibtimes.com)
Kurdish Peshmurga forces have repulsed a major ISIL attack on the city of Kirkuk. (euronews.com)
In August a U.S. diplomat rattled off to me the three original justifications for the new war: stopping the immediate slaughter of minorities fleeing attacks by ISIL, protecting American military personnel in the northern city of Erbil and keeping ISIL from overrunning the Kurdish region. (informationclearinghouse.info)
First, despite alarmist claims, ISIL lacks the ability to overrun the Kurdish region. (informationclearinghouse.info)

Thereafter, Gurbanli and others participated in military operations held by ISIL in the city of Haditha in Iraq's Anbar Province in August, 2014. (apa.az)
It's more than five months since Iraq's second-largest city was liberated from ISIL. (dprogram.net)
Obviously, at this point, we're also focused on the fighting that is taking place in Iraq's Anbar Province, and we're deeply concerned about the situation in and around the Syrian town of Kobani, which underscores the threat that ISIL poses in both Iraq and Syria. (ucsb.edu)
The main elements of sedition in Iraq are as hostile towards faithful Sunnis that believe in Iraq's independence as they are towards Shi'as. (criticalthreats.org)
The main fight in Iraq is between those who want Iraq to join America's camp and those who seek Iraq's independence. (criticalthreats.org)

Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office announced that he had cleared the way for the military prosecution of senior commanders responsible for another military collapse in Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad. (aljazeera.com)
Taking control of the second largest city in Iraq sends a very serious message to the Maliki government in Baghdad and it now seems quite likely that Baghdad itself could be the next main target. (theworld.org)
Carter, testifying on Capitol Hill for the first time since he started his job in early February, responded to questions about reports that the U.S. military is sitting on the sidelines as the Iraqis launch a major operation in Tikrit, an important Sunni Arab city north of Baghdad that is controlled by the group known as the Islamic State or ISIL. (militarytimes.com)
The terrorists kidnapped 23 individuals in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, located some 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, on Sunday. (presstv.ir)
A day earlier, the ISIL members burned to death 50 civilians in the town of Hit, located about 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of Baghdad. (presstv.ir)
It also significantly helps the security situation in Baghdad, as Fallujah was the closest ISIL-held territory to Baghdad. (centcom.mil)

The town is the ISIL group's main access point to Turkey from Raqqa, the group's de facto capital in Syria. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
On Nov. 15, French aircraft bombed ISIL's quasi-capital city of Raqqa in Syria. (af.mil)
We've stepped up our support of opposition forces who are working to cut off supply lines to ISIL strongholds in and around Raqqa. (af.mil)
Some parts of ISIL controlled territory in eastern Syria have some power plants back in operation and Raqqa has generally stayed lit up. (strategypage.com)

The 1920 Revolution Brigades group actively fought against Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq in 2007. (trend.az)
Army and police forces left their positions and ISIL terrorists are in full control,' said an army colonel at the local military command. (commondreams.org)

In the last week there have been several public executions of ISIL field commanders who deserted, often while with units under attack by the Kurds. (strategypage.com)
The Kurds made it very clear over the last year that they would not start their offensive until they were assured that the Iraq government forces south of the city were ready and able to do the same. (strategypage.com)
The Kurds have found that their security measures still work well and ISIL attempts to take back areas recently lost of the Kurds nearly always end in a lopsided defeat for the attackers. (strategypage.com)
Media reports said that the terror group has executed two people for "dealing with Kurds" in the village of Ghibsh located after the town of Tal Tamer in the province. (presstv.ir)
According to Noori Abdulrahman, the head of the Department of Coordination and Follow-up of the Kurdistan Regional Government , ISIL wanted to push most of the Kurds out of strategic areas and bring in Arabs who were obedient to ISIL. (wikipedia.org)

Losing control of so many roads means it is easier to concentrate a very large force against ISIL defenders in a town or military base and quickly defeat the defenders no matter how fanatic they are. (strategypage.com)
On Sunday, Jeb Bush told NBC that Obama lacked not the resources but "the will" to defeat ISIL, and called his policy "incremental, just kind of running out the clock so the next president has to deal with this. (politico.com)
While some hawkish strategists say it will take as many as 30,000 U.S. ground troops to defeat ISIL - a nearly tenfold escalation of the current U.S. presence in Iraq - there is almost no chance a president whose foreign policy views are largely guided by the Iraq quagmire of the past decade will agree to that option. (politico.com)
The U.S. military typically considers Iran an adversary, but their two militaries share the same goal in Iraq - the defeat of the Sunni Islamic extremists who have seized large parts of western and northern Iraq. (militarytimes.com)
AFP is reporting that a news agency linked to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), "A`maq," is carrying a video of a Daesh fighter who swears that he and his colleagues will inflict a decisive defeat on the US in Iraq, as the guerrillas spread through the streets of the city. (juancole.com)
Other topics covered in the debate were U.S.-Canada relations, particularly regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline, and the U.S.-led effort to defeat ISIL. (c-span.org)
In response to his military's defeat in the nation's second largest city, Iraq President Nuri al-Maliki declared the national emergency as his government was seen scrambling to respond to the escalating internal violence that has gripped the country since the last U.S troops left the country in late 2011. (commondreams.org)
Despite the hard work still to do," he added, "the clearing of Fallujah will make the people of Iraq safer and bring us all one step closer to dealing ISIL a lasting defeat. (centcom.mil)
Yet the U.S. has no allies even capable of fighting on the ground to defeat ISIL, much less occupying and governing the areas currently under its control in Syria and Iraq. (informationclearinghouse.info)

Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that allowing ISIL an "unmolested sanctuary" in Syria and Iraq has been the "chief failure" in U.S. policy. (politico.com)
Istanbul police cracked down on suspects who had allegedly committed acts in ISIL's name or had gone to conflict zones in Syria and Iraq, and were preparing a terrorist act in the city, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
On 29 June 2014, the Islamic State declared a caliphate in the contiguous areas of Syria and Iraq it controlled, after it had made significant advances in northern Iraq during the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) . (wikipedia.org)

She did say that ISIS "cannot be contained, it must be defeated" - a phrase that recalled Obama's much-criticized claim in a Thursday interview with ABC that ISIL had been "contained. (politico.com)
Ever since mid-2012, the ISI (the Islamic State of Iraq) - and from April 2013, ISIS [as the group changed its name when it began fighting in Syria] - has been on a steady period of recovery and its military potential has increased substantially. (theworld.org)
By mid-2013, ISIS had become a military organization capable of carrying out intensive operations across Iraq, including in key urban areas seemingly at will. (theworld.org)
The recent advance made by ISIS/ISIL has turned this predominantly Shi'ite country into the second battleground of a kind of Islamic Cold War . (rt.com)
At first, the extremist group Jabhat Al Nusra seemed predominant, but then it was superseded by ISIS/ISIL entering the fray from Iraq where this organization had previously been known as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (killed by the Americans in 2006). (rt.com)
Control of these key ISIL supply routes will both reduce the ISIL's ability to reinforce its positions at Sinjar and, importantly, limit ISIL's freedom of movement between Iraq and Syria," t= the council said, referring to the militant group that also goes by ISIS and Daesh . (upi.com)
The rise of ISIS has reinforced Iran's role in support of the government in Iraq and raises the possibility of U.S.-Iran cooperation in stabilizing Iraq even before a nuclear agreement is signed," according to the report which nonetheless stressed that any agreement should impose "severe restrictions on Iran's nuclear activities… [to reduce] the risks that Iran could acquire nuclear weapons. (ipsnews.net)
The group doing the seizing, kidnapping and executing is the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Syria), which is known as ISIS, and which is so violent and fanatical that Al Qaeda has disowned its behaviour and distanced itself from the group. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

THE PRESIDENT: I just met with my National Security Council as part of our regular effort to review and intensify our campaign to destroy the terrorist group ISIL. (archives.gov)
A defector from the ISIL terrorist group has revealed the aspects and extent of the Takfiri group's brutality across Iraq and Syria. (alalam.ir)

Iraqi Army troops often have M1 tanks with them that use their 120mm cannon to destroy ISIL bunkers or even sniper hiding places. (strategypage.com)
U.S. troops in Iraq are now confined to bases and operations centers far from the front lines. (politico.com)
Only a small number of Special Forces troops, who occasionally conduct raids against ISIL leaders in Iraq and Syria, ever fire weapons on the ground. (politico.com)
This suggests that there is a danger of a communal bloodbath by government troops against the largely Pashtun population of the city in the event they retake it by force. (wsws.org)
Government spokesmen said the city was effectively surrounded by troops on three sides, with the Tajikistan border on the north, setting the stage for bloody street-by-street fighting. (wsws.org)
About 2,700 U.S. troops are now in Iraq, most of them providing training and assistance to Iraqi security forces. (militarytimes.com)
After Iraqi federal military forces fled from the advancing ISIL troops, local residents seized their abandoned weapons in case of an attack by the Islamic State. (wikipedia.org)
Three thousand U.S. military advisers are now authorized to accompany Iraqi troops into combat, while American helicopter pilots fly combat missions over Iraq. (informationclearinghouse.info)
Some in the west might argue that the big mistake was US and UK troops withdrawing from Iraq when, in fact, the big mistake (crime? (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Syria n President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday hailed his troops' victory over the ISIL group in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra as an "important achievement. (worldbulletin.net)
Russian-backed troops and allied militia pushed the extremists out of the ancient city earlier on Sunday in a major strategic and symbolic win. (worldbulletin.net)

We've seen that when we have an effective partner on the ground, ISIL can (be) and is pushed back, so local forces in Iraq, backed by coalition air power, recently liberated Sinjar," he said. (af.mil)
The massacre began with ISIL attacking and capturing Sinjar and neighboring towns on 3 August, during its Northern Iraq offensive . (wikipedia.org)

So far, we've taken out more than 120 top ISIL leaders and commanders. (archives.gov)

and Maher al-Bilawi, the top ISIL commander in Fallujah. (archives.gov)
With the recent loss of Ramadi and Fallujah in western Iraq and Manbij in Syria ISIL is now desperately trying to retain control over some of the roads crossing the Iraq/Syria border. (strategypage.com)
Previous fighting between Sunni militias and the Iraq Army in Fallujah and other areas closer to the Syrian border have exposed the deep tensions and bloody rivalries that remain in the aftermath of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began in 2003. (commondreams.org)
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has priased Iraqi security forces for their work in liberating the city of Fallujah from ISIL. (centcom.mil)
Hard fighting is ahead, the secretary added, as is the vital task of caring for the residents of Fallujah displaced by ISIL's violence and beginning to rebuild the city so they can safely return. (centcom.mil)
The fighting to get into Fallujah was fierce," Davis told Pentagon reporters, "particularly as they broke through some of the defensive belts on the southern side and the Iraqi security forces have worked their way through the city and … rapidly took control of it. (centcom.mil)
After Iraqi security forces victories in Rutba, Hit and Ramadi this year, Fallujah was the last major stronghold for ISIL in Anbar province, Davis said. (centcom.mil)
With its large population centers, infrastructure and key road networks, the loss of Fallujah will further deny ISIL access to a province that's critically important to its overall goals," he told reporters. (centcom.mil)
ISIL has had no strategic victories for more than a year and has lost significant territory over and over again, Davis noted, listing Fallujah, Ramadi, Rutba, Hit, Synjar and Beiji in Iraq, and Hawl, Shadaddi and the Tishrin Dam in Syria. (centcom.mil)

This was caused by the fact that ISIL stated about creating an Islamic caliphate in the country. (trend.az)

The army pledged on Sunday to build on its win in Palmyra by pushing their offensives against ISIL strongholds in northern Raqa and Deir Ezzor in the east. (worldbulletin.net)

An off-shoot of Al Qaeda, ISIL evolved from Al Qaeda in Iraq and has been active in Syria since last year, fighting not just Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces but other more moderate Syrian rebels as well. (theworld.org)
ISIL, of course, evolved out of Al Qaeda in Iraq, but earlier this year the two groups split due to ISIL's extremism and involvement in Syria. (theworld.org)
Al-Baghdadi was the leader of Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) since 2010. (brobible.com)
However, he is not illiterate or a common thug such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who led al Qaeda in Iraq until his death in 2006. (smallwarsjournal.com)

Abadi approved the "decisions of the investigative commission on the withdrawal of the Anbar operations command and units attached to it from the city of Ramadi," his office said in a statement. (aljazeera.com)

International donors have pledged tens of billions of dollars to help Iraq rebuild after a four-year war against ISIL has left large swathes of the country in ruins. (aljazeera.com)

With calls growing for tougher action against ISIL in response to the Paris terror attacks, President Barack Obama is again reviewing a menu of policy options he has previously found unpalatable. (politico.com)
At the same time, they expressed doubt that Obama would dramatically shift his broader strategy in Iraq and Syria. (politico.com)
Obama could take more modest steps against ISIL, however, without committing to a ground war. (politico.com)
Now Barack Obama s administration is trying to win a new war in Iraq with even less support at home and armed resources than in 2003. (informationclearinghouse.info)
Without viable allies on the ground, the Obama administration has few options for winning the war against ISIL. (informationclearinghouse.info)

More recently, they have closed in on the ISIL-held town of Tal Abyad, near the Turkish border. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

This image from video posted by Iraqi Revolution, a group supporting ISIL, shows a militant standing in front of a burning Iraqi Army Humvee in Tikrit, Iraq, June 11, 2014. (voanews.com)
His first orders, as an ISIL militant, were to attend a course on Takfiri law. (alalam.ir)

After many years of fighting opposition forces, troop surges, inter-communal violence, and financial support given to Sunni tribal militias, known as Sahwa, to fight Sunni terrorist employing the name Al-Qaeda, the state of Iraq re-emerged again on the international scene. (rt.com)
As the Iraq Army retreated, reports indicate that the anti-government militias have seized military bases and prisons in the city, releasing more than a thousand prisoners who were held. (commondreams.org)
On at least one occasion when these militias retook ISIL-held territory, they prohibited Sunnis from returning to their homes what some critics called ethnic cleansing . (informationclearinghouse.info)

Earlier, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turned down the proposal to create a transitional government with the Sunni insurgents that are not included in the ISIL. (trend.az)

Our B-52 bombers are hitting ISIL with precision strikes. (archives.gov)
Those strikes destroyed key ISIL targets, including tactical units, fighting positions, heavy and light machine guns [and] rocket-propelled grenade systems, and they also denied access to key terrain for ISIL," he added. (centcom.mil)
The U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out strikes against ISIL in Syria since September 2014, and Russia began its own air campaign in support of Assad one year later. (worldbulletin.net)

Saudi Arabia said it would provide $1.5bn, Qatar pledged $1bn and Turkey vowed to give Iraq $5bn in financial support. (aljazeera.com)
ISIL hit Beirut last week and Turkey last month. (af.mil)
In Syria, ISIL has been pushed back from much of the border region with Turkey. (af.mil)
Analyst Ozel warns Turkey is vulnerable to retaliation if it moves against ISIL. (voanews.com)
At this stage, some 60 nations are contributing to this coalition, including more than 20 coalition members who are represented here today, among them, Iraq, Arab nations, Turkey, NATO allies, and partners from around the world. (ucsb.edu)
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. (bvsalud.org)

Meanwhile the Kurdistan Peshmerga or paramilitary is planning an attack Talafar, a largely Turkmen town in the north, and kick Daesh (ISIL) our of it. (truthdig.com)

Though possession of the Syrian city of Manbij is still a hotly contested battle, Davis said, ISIL will soon lose that city as well. (centcom.mil)

Our mission is to destroy ISIL. (archives.gov)
I want to thank Chairman Dempsey for bringing us here together to review coalition operations to degrade and to ultimately destroy ISIL. (ucsb.edu)
So we are united in our goal to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL so that it's no longer a threat to Iraq, to the region, or the international community. (ucsb.edu)

ISIL took credit for the attacks on Paris that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350. (af.mil)

He explained that ISIL had learned the lessons from Iraq in the early days on the anti-American insurgency. (alalam.ir)

Dempsey told lawmakers Tuesday that the Tikrit operation may signal a new level of direct Iranian involvement in Iraq. (militarytimes.com)

and additional support for local forces in northern Iraq. (archives.gov)
One would be to place U.S. Special Forces near the front lines of combat between the Iraqi Army and ISIL forces. (politico.com)
We're now working with Syrian forces as well to squeeze ISIL, cut off their supply lines. (af.mil)
The president noted success from authorizing additional U.S. special operations forces on the ground to work with Syrian and Iraqi forces against ISIL. (af.mil)
The operation was the first by Taliban military forces inside a major Afghan city. (wsws.org)
Rumors are circulating that there was a raid in Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria, where US Special Forces and coalition forces were pursuing a high-value terrorist target. (brobible.com)
Our approach to combating ISIL in Iraq is to work with the Iraqi security forces and a multisectarian government that takes a multisectarian approach to defeating ISIL," he said. (militarytimes.com)
In Syria, Assad's forces appear to have regained the upper hand, a fact which probably convinced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that returning to Iraq was but a viable option. (rt.com)
There are not enough ISF available to secure the city while the combat forces move onto the other half of the city. (blogspot.com)
The problems the Iraqi forces have in coordinating multiple fronts was exposed in the initial attack upon the city, and they may not have had time to improve. (blogspot.com)

Secretary Carter and Chairman Dunford reviewed the military campaign against ISIL. (archives.gov)
En route they seized major towns, oil refineries and military bases and embarked on an orgy of kidnappings and executions, forcing an exodus of more than half a million people across the north. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry told the Associated Press that Kunduz had "collapsed," and press accounts said that 110 local policemen had simply surrendered as soon as the Taliban entered the city. (wsws.org)

This will in turn allow the international coalition to increase its pressure on the ISIL. (upi.com)
This was of course in the middle of the war with the Islamic State, Iraqis were still feeling vulnerable, and when Iran was pumping up its role in Iraq far above the U.S. led Coalition, which preferred having the Iraqis claim responsibility for their victories. (blogspot.com)

Bashir (Arabic: قرية بشير, romanized: Bašīr, Turkish: Beşir) is a village in Iraq, located south of Kirkuk. (wikipedia.org)
Adding to pressure on the government is the fate of more than 30 Turkish truck drivers also being held by ISIL. (voanews.com)

The United States faces massive roadblocks in its quest for victory against ISIL. (informationclearinghouse.info)

The heavy ISIL losses at Kobane hurt ISIL morale but did not persuade ISIL leadership to avoid making the same mistake again. (strategypage.com)
A reported 4.8 million are in hard-to-reach areas including an al-Arab (Kobane) city. (who.int)

The lands of Mesopotamia, united in the shape of a state known as Iraq since 1920, now seem to be on the brink of collapse. (rt.com)

By Aug. 14 the Pentagon determined that minorities were no longer fleeing ISIL. (informationclearinghouse.info)

Without control of those roads ISIL cannot quickly move anything between Iraq and Syria. (strategypage.com)
In the last months, all territory has been liberated from the control of ISIL and the activities of the FFS have been expanded to the entire area. (unv.org)

The extremists also held captive tens of other Assyrians in the town of Tal Hurmos, adjacent to Tal Shamiram, according to the Britain-based group. (presstv.ir)
The group, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria to rule over all Muslims, poses the biggest challenge to the stability of OPEC member Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. (ibtimes.com)
One result of that invasion and the subsequent occupation, as well as of the wars and civil wars that followed: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis , Syrians , and Lebanese, while major areas of Syria and some parts of Iraq have fallen into the hands of armed supporters of al-Qaeda or, in one major case, a group that didn't find that organization extreme enough . (commondreams.org)
He joined ISIL when his entire tribe pledged allegiance to the group - and because he believed in creating a so-called Islamic state. (alalam.ir)

Widespread discontent among Sunnis, who say they were marginalised and targeted by Maliki's government, played a major role in aggravating the security situation in Iraq, aiding the ISIL advances. (aljazeera.com)

#Iraq - A'maq sitrep on #Kirkuk in English. (euronews.com)

The Free Syrian Army not very popular in its own right wants to focus on defeating Bashar al-Assad s regime, while the United States demands that rebels fight ISIL first. (informationclearinghouse.info)

On July 29, the ISIL announced about creation of an Islamic caliphate, and called on jihadists from around the world to take the oath of allegiance to it. (trend.az)
And during his killing spree, the shooter in Orlando pledged allegiance to ISIL. (archives.gov)

Add to that the ISIL threat and suddenly the coup threat from competent Iraqi soldiers shrinks considerably. (strategypage.com)
Our nations agree that ISIL poses a significant threat to the people of Iraq and Syria. (ucsb.edu)

The activists of the Iraqi Islamic National Resistance, the Islamic Army of Iraq, Sunni Mujahideen Army are also armed. (trend.az)
The U.S. war on Islamic State (also known as Daesh) in Iraq and Syria takes up less and less space in mainstream media. (truthdig.com)
Islamic State completely destroyed the shrine of Nabi Yunus after telling local families to stay away and closing the roads to a distance of 500 metres from the shrine,' said the official at the Sunni endowment, which manages Sunni religious affairs in Iraq. (newsmax.com)
The Islamic State late last month proclaimed a 'caliphate' spanning parts of Iraq and Syria. (newsmax.com)
The [so-called] Islamic State have brought in people from other countries, different nationalities who are quite young in age so that they can brainwash or indoctrinate them with their ISIL ideology," he said. (alalam.ir)

The historically Christian region was home to thousands of Assyrian Christians who fled ISIL 's advance in 2014. (euronews.com)

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