Military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Operation Inherent Resolve
Part of the international military intervention against the Islamic State and the War on terror
U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets of VFA-22 take off from USS Carl Vinson to support U.S. efforts for Operation Inherent Resolve in October 2014.
Date
15 June 2014 – present (9 years, 10 months, 1 week and 4 days)
Iraq: 15 June 2014 – 9 December 2021
Syria: 22 September 2014 – present
Libya: 13 November 2015 – 30 October 2019
Location
Iraq
Syria
Libya
Status
Ongoing
Territorial defeat of ISIL in Iraq on 9 December 2017
Territorial defeat of ISIL in Syria on 23 March 2019
ISIL defeated in Libya
110,000 square kilometers containing 7.7 million people captured from the Islamic State by U.S.-allied ground forces
Belligerents
United States
U.S. Armed Forces
Islamic State[1][2][3]
al-Qaeda
al-Nusra Front (2014–17)[4]
Khorasan group
Jund al-Aqsa[5] (2014–17)[6][7]
Hurras al-Din (2018-present)
Turkistan Islamic Party[8]
Islamic Front (2013-2015)
Ahrar ash-Sham (2014–18)[9]
Syrian Salvation Government (2017-present)
Tahrir al-Sham (2017–present)
Commanders and leaders
Joe Biden (President, 2021-present)
Donald Trump (President, 2017–2021) Barack Obama (President, 2014–2017) General Lloyd Austin (CENTCOM Commander, 2014–2016) (Secretary of Defense, 2021–present)
Mark Esper (Secretary of Defense, 2019 –2020) James Mattis (Secretary of Defense, 2017 – 2018) Ashton Carter (Secretary of Defense, 2015–2017) Chuck Hagel (Secretary of Defense, 2014–2015) General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. (CENTCOM Commander, 2019–present) General Joseph Votel (CENTCOM Commander, 2016 – 2019) Lieutenant General Robert P. White Commanding General Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, 2019–2020 Major General Kevin M. Copsey[10] (Deputy Commander-Stability CJTF-OIR) Lieutenant General Alexus G. Grynkewich (Deputy Commander-Operations and Intelligence CJTF-OIR) Major General Matthew McFarlane (Commander of CJTF-OIR, 2022–2023) Major General Joel ‘JB’ Vowell (Commander of CJTF-OIR, 2023–present)
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi† (Former leader of IS)[11][12] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi†[13] (Former leader of IS) Abu Alaa Afri † (Deputy Leader of IS)[14] Abu Mohammad al-Adnani † (Spokesperson) Abu Ayman al-Iraqi † (Head of Military Shura)[15] Abu Muslim al-Turkmani † (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[16] Abu Ali al-Anbari † (Deputy Leader, Syria) Abu Omar al-Shishani † (Field commander in Syria)[17][18]
Abu Khayr al-Masri † (al-Qaeda deputy leader)[19] Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Leader of the al-Nusra Front)) Abu Humam al-Shami † (al-Nusra Military Chief and Leader of Hurras al-Din)[20] Mohammed Islambouli (Leader of Khorasan)[21] Muhsin al-Fadhli † (Leader of Khorasan)[22] David Drugeon † (chief bombmaker)[23]
Abu Yahia al-Hamawi (Emir of Ahrar al-Sham (2015–2017))[24] Abu Jaber Shaykh (Emir of Ahrar al-Sham (2014-2015); Emir of Tahrir al-Sham (2017))[25][26]
Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Emir of Tahrir al-Sham (2017–present))
Units involved
Elements of:
U.S. Army[27]
U.S. Marine Corps[28]
U.S. Navy[29]
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Coast Guard[30]
Coalition Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq[31]
Military of IS
Wilayat al-Iraq
Wilayat al-Sham
Strength
United States:
4,400 troops (in Iraq)[32][33][34][35][36]
2,500 troops (in Kuwait)[37]
7,000 contractors[38][39]
USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group
USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group (replaced USS George H.W. Bush in late October 2014)[40]
USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group (replaced USS Carl Vinson in late March 2015, departed in October 2015)[41][42]
USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group (replaced USS Theodore Roosevelt in December 2015)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group (replaced USS Harry S. Truman in June 2016, departed in late December 2016)
USS George H. W. Bush carrier strike group (replaced USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in February 2017)
F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Super Hornet and F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft[43][44]
AV-8B Harrier II & A-10 Thunderbolt ground-attack aircraft[45]
B-1 Lancer and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft[citation needed]
RQ-4 Global Hawk & Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned surveillance aircraft[48][54]
North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco[55][56]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
9,000 to 18,000 (January 2015)[57]
20,000 to 200,000 (peak, late 2014)[58][59]
3 MiG-21 or MiG-23 aircraft[60]
At least 600 tanks[61][62]
At least 5 drones[63][64][65][66]
al-Qaeda:
Khorasan: 50[67]
Jund al-Aqsa: 2,100[6]
Islamic Front
Ahrar al-Sham: 26,000–30,000+[68][69]
Syrian Salvation Government
Tahrir al-Sham: 50,000+[70][71]
Casualties and losses
United States
23 hostile deaths[72][73][74]
89 non-hostile Deaths
364 (WIA)[72]
18 civilians killed (5 executed and 1 unknown)[75][76][77][78]
1 F-16 crashed[79] and 1 F-15 damaged[80]
2 helicopters lost (Ch 53 Sea Stallion)[81][82]
4 MQ-1 Predator drones shot down[83][84]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
80,000+ killed by American and allied airstrikes[85]
32,000+ targets destroyed or damaged (as of 30 September 2016)[86]
164 tanks
388 HMMWVs
2,638 pieces of oil infrastructure
1,000+ fuel tanker trucks[87]
2,000+ pick-up trucks, VBIEDs, and other vehicles
(per coalition)
al-Qaeda:
298+ killed[88][89]
Islamic Front
Ahrar ash-Sham:
3 killed[88][90][91] Syrian Salvation Government:
Tahrir al-Sham: 6 killed[92]
Tens of thousands of civilians killed by IS (per Iraqi Body Count and SOHR)[93][94] Between 8,214 and 13,125 civilians killed by Coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq (per Airwars)[95]
1,335 civilians killed by Coalition Operations (per Coalition)[95]
Over 970,000 civilians in Iraq and Syria displaced, or fled to Turkey and other countries[96][97][98][99]
v
t
e
Libyan civil war (2014–2020)
2014s coups
Islamist conflict with Libyan National Army
1st Benghazi
Benina Airport
2nd Benghazi
2nd Derna
4th Derna
ISIL and anti-ISIL operations
Kikla
1st Derna
Nofaliya
Egyptian airstrikes
1st Sirte
Bin Jawad
Misrata
2nd Sirte
Factional fighting
Tripoli Airport
Ubari
Traghan
West Libya
1st Tripoli
LNA vs GNA
Gulf of Sidra
Brak al-Shati
2nd Gulf of Sidra
Saddada Castle
Southern Libya
Sabha
Murzuq
Western Libya
Gharyan
Volcano of Rage
Tajoura
Misrata
Zuwarah
Tripoli military school
3rd Sirte
Central Libya
al-Watiya
al-Watiya airstrike
Terror attacks
Kidnapping of Copts
Corinthia Hotel
Al Qubbah
Zliten truck bombing
Flight 209
3rd Derna
Benghazi car bombing
Benghazi bombing
Tripoli attack
NOC attack
Foreign involvement
American intervention
Turkish intervention
Egyptian intervention
Peace Process
Palermo Conference
Libyan peace process
Libyan peace process
v
t
e
War in Iraq (2013–2017)
Battles and operations
1st Anbar
1st Fallujah
1st Northern Iraq
1st Mosul
Badush prison
Camp Speicher
1st Kirkuk
2nd Northern Iraq
Zumar
Makhmour
1st Sinjar
Mosul Dam
Sharfadin
Musab bin Umair mosque
Suq al-Ghazi
Saqlawiyah
1st Hīt
Jurf al-Sakhar
Salahuddin
1st Baiji
Siege of Amirli
1st Tikrit
2nd Baiji
3rd Baiji
Dhuluiya
2nd Tikrit
1st Ramadi
2nd Sinjar
2nd Mosul
2nd Kirkuk
Al-Karmah
2nd Anbar
2nd Ramadi
2nd Fallujah
2nd Hīt
Ar-Rutbah
3rd Fallujah
3rd Sinjar
Nineveh Plains offensive
3rd Mosul
4th Mosul
Mosul airstrike
Western Nineveh
3rd Kirkuk
Hamam al-Alil
4th Sinjar
Turkish Sinjar airstrike
Tal Afar
Western Anbar
Hawija
Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
4th Kirkuk
Western Iraq
Major insurgent attacks
1st Hillah
1st Baghdad
Khan Bani Saad
2nd Baghdad
Sharaban
Ramadi
Mosul
3rd Baghdad
Miqdadiyah
2nd Hillah
Iskandariya
4th Baghdad
Samawa
5th Baghdad
1st Balad
Taji
6th Baghdad
7th Baghdad
2nd Balad
8th Baghdad
9th Baghdad
3rd Hillah
10th Baghdad
11th Baghdad
Tikrit
12th Baghdad
Nasiriyah
Foreign interventions
Iranian-led intervention
American-led intervention
Inherent Resolve
Shader
Okra
Chammal
Impact
IS genocide of minorities
Christian genocide
Yazidi genocide
Shia genocide
Turkmen genocide
IS war crimes
Mosul executions
Chemical weapons
Timeline
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
v
t
e
Syrian civil war
Timeline
January–April 2011
May–August 2011
September–December 2011
January–April 2012
May–August 2012
September–December 2012
January–April 2013
May–December 2013
January–July 2014
August–December 2014
January–July 2015
August–December 2015
January–April 2016
May–August 2016
September–December 2016
January–April 2017
May–August 2017
September–December 2017
January–April 2018
May–August 2018
September–December 2018
January–April 2019
May–August 2019
September–December 2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Background and causes
Casualties
Cities
map
Terrorism
Massacres
v
t
e
Civil uprising in Syria (March–August 2011)
Daraa
Baniyas
Homs (May–August 2011)
Talkalakh
Rastan and Talbiseh
1st Jisr ash-Shughur
1st Jabal al-Zawiya
Hama
Latakia
v
t
e
Start of insurgency (Sept. 2011 – April 2012)
Homs (2011–14)
Homs offensive
1st Idlib Gov.
Syrian–Turkish border
Jabal al-Zawiya
1st Idlib City
Saraqeb
1st Rastan
Hama Gov.
Shayrat & Tiyas ambush
Daraa Gov.
1st Rif Dimashq
1st Zabadani
Douma
Deir ez-Zor (2011–2014)
Hatla
Aleppo Gov.
Azaz
2nd Rastan
1st al-Qusayr
2nd Idlib Gov.
Taftanaz
v
t
e
UN ceasefire; Rebel advances (May 2012 – Dec. 2013)
Foreign intervention on behalf of Syrian Arab Republic
Russian involvement
2015 military intervention
Iranian intervention
2017 missile strike
Iran–Israel conflict
2012 Hezbollah involvement
Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels
Foreign rebel fighters
Turkish involvement
Turkey–Islamic State conflict
Tomb of Suleyman Shah relocation
Euphrates Shield
2017 airstrikes
Idlib Governorate operation
Afrin operation
2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria
Israel's role
U.S.-led intervention against ISIL
U.S.-led Intervention
Timeline
List of attacks
2014 rescue operation
May 2015 raid
2017 missile strikes
Qatari involvement
Jordanian intervention
Operation Martyr Muath
Lebanon's role
Saudi involvement
April 2018 missile strikes
Dutch involvement
German intervention
French intervention
Australian intervention
UK intervention
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the United States military's operational name for the international war against the Islamic State (IS or ISIL),[100] including both a campaign in Iraq and a campaign in Syria, with a closely related campaign in Libya. Through 18 September 2018, the U.S. Army's III Armored Corps was responsible for Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF—OIR) and were replaced by the XVIII Airborne Corps.[101] The campaign is primarily waged by American and British forces in support of local allies, most prominently the Iraqi security forces and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Combat ground troops, mostly special forces, infantry, and artillery have also been deployed, especially in Iraq. Of the airstrikes, 70% have been conducted by the military of the United States, 20% by the United Kingdom and the remaining 10% being carried out by France, Turkey, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Australia and Jordan.[102]
According to the Pentagon, by March 2019, the day of the territorial defeat in Syria of IS, CJTF-OIR and its partner forces had liberated nearly 110,000 square kilometers (42,471 square miles) of land and 7.7 million people from IS, the vast majority of the self-proclaimed caliphate's territory and subjects.[103] By October 2017, around the time of IS's territorial defeat in Iraq, CJTF-OIR claimed that around 80,000 IS militants had been killed by it and its allies (excluding those targeted by Russian and Syrian Air Force strikes). By the end of August 2019, it had conducted 34,573 strikes.[85][104][105] Tens of thousands more were killed by partner forces on the ground (the SDF alone claimed to have killed 25,336 IS fighters by the end of 2017).[106]
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first Medal of Honor recipient for OperationInherentResolve. He served with MSG Joshua Wheeler in the combat operation in Iraq that saw MSG Wheeler KIA...