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On 30 September, the U.S. launched eleven airstrikes in Iraq and the UK conducted their first two airstrikes in Iraq in this intervention. Together with eleven U.S. strikes in Syria against ISIL these 24 strikes were the highest number of strikes against ISIL on one day since 8 August.
- Iraq
On 15 June 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama ordered United States forces to be dispatched in response to the Northern Iraq offensive of the Islamic State (IS), as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
- Iraq
- How The Counter-ISIS Campaign in Iraq Began
- Current U.S. Involvement in Iraq
- The Legal Basis For U.S. Operations in Iraq
- Counter-ISIS Operations
- Operations Targeting Iranian-Backed SMGs
In 2011, President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq, fulfilling his campaign promise to end the Iraq War that began under the Bush administration in 2003. But just three years later, U.S. troops returned, responding to the rapid advances and widely publicized atrocities of ISIS. At the head of a coalition of a...
In part responding to the growing Iraqi calls for withdrawal, the U.S. formally ended its latest combat mission in Iraq in December 2021. The decision to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq was announced by President Joe Biden in July 2021 following a series of strategic dialogues between the U.S. administration and the Iraqi government, headed b...
Against this backdrop, questions as to the legality of continuing U.S. operations in Iraq are particularly salient. While operations against ISIS in Iraq retain a strong legal basis in both international and Iraqi domestic law, these bases do not extend to a conflict between the United States, Iran, and its proxies. And, despite the war on ISIS’s s...
International Law. Compared with the 2003 invasion, U.S. operations in Iraq against ISIS have a strong basis in international law. From the outset of the counter-ISIS campaign in the summer of 2014, Iraqi government consenthas been the legal cornerstone of U.S. and coalition operations in Iraq. U.N. Security Council backing, under UNSC resolutions ...
International Law. Up to this point, this article has considered the legal basis for U.S. operations in Iraq against ISIS. But since at least 2017 – and particularly from 2019 onwards – the United States has become increasingly drawn into a series of tit-for-tat strikes with local SMGs and other Iranian proxies. U.S. forces and supporting elements ...
By the end of September 2014, the United States Navy and Air Force had conducted 240 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, as well as 1,300 tanker refueling missions, totaling 3,800 sorties by all types of aircraft.
Mar 30, 2006 · Washington has reportedly strengthened ties with leaders from the political blocs of Kurds, Sunnis, and secular Shiites—including Prime Minister Ayad Allawi—to prevent Iraq’s Shiite-led...
- Lionel Beehner
On 15 June 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered United States forces to be dispatched in response to the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014) of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.
Mission Iraq will continue to prioritize U.S. assistance programs that encourage durable solutions for Iraq’s most vulnerable populations, including IDPs, returnees, ethnic and religious minorities, women, and LGBTQI+ persons.
