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Military intervention against ISIL


00:02:08 1 International coalitions against ISIL
00:02:19 1.1 US-led coalitions
00:02:28 1.1.1 5 September 2014
00:03:11 1.1.2 Establishment of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) in October 2014
00:03:45 1.1.3 3 December 2014
00:05:19 1.2 France-led coalition
00:06:36 1.3 Russia-led coalition
00:07:37 1.4 Muslim states' coalition
00:08:29 2 Turkish intervention
00:09:13 2.1 July 2015 special forces operation
00:10:44 3 Iranian intervention
00:12:13 4 Hezbollah intervention
00:12:22 4.1 Iraq
00:13:42 4.2 Lebanon
00:14:03 5 US-led intervention in Iraq
00:15:18 5.1 Military aid to Kurds and Iraqis
00:16:16 5.1.1 Building Partner Capacity (BPC)
00:16:58 5.2 Humanitarian efforts
00:18:55 5.3 U.S. military actions
00:19:01 5.3.1 U.S. airstrikes
00:23:08 5.3.2 U.S. ground forces
00:26:46 5.3.3 The late naming of Operation Inherent Resolve
00:28:07 5.4 Australian airstrikes
00:30:22 5.5 British airstrikes
00:35:50 5.6 Canadian airstrikes
00:39:15 5.7 Dutch airstrikes
00:40:20 5.8 French airstrikes
00:42:19 5.9 Jordanian airstrikes
00:42:57 5.10 Moroccan airstrikes
00:43:23 5.11 Turkish contributions
00:43:36 6 US-led intervention in Syria
00:43:46 6.1 Hostage rescue attempt
00:44:18 6.2 Aerial surveillance
00:45:03 6.3 Arming and training rebels
00:46:12 6.4 Multi-national airstrikes
00:50:02 7 Russian intervention
00:50:41 8 Intervention in Libya
00:50:50 8.1 Egyptian airstrikes
00:51:27 8.2 U.S. surveillance flights
00:51:50 8.3 U.S. airstrikes
01:01:53 8.4 Other actions
01:05:36 9 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan
01:14:47 10 U.S. intervention in Cameroon
01:15:13 11 U.S. intervention in Yemen and Somalia
01:17:43 12 Casualties
01:17:52 12.1 ISIL
01:19:59 12.2 Civilians
01:21:18 13 Labeling
01:21:56 14 Involvement by country
01:22:19 15 See also



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In response to rapid territorial gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the first half of 2014, and its universally-condemned executions, reported human rights abuses and the fear of further spillovers of the Syrian Civil War, many states began to intervene against it in both the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017). Later, there were also minor interventions by some states against ISIL-affiliated groups in Nigeria and Libya.
In mid-June 2014, Iran, according to American and British information, started flying drones over Iraq, and, according to Reuters, Iranian soldiers were in Iraq fighting ISIL. Simultaneously, the United States ordered a small number of troops to Iraq and started flying crewed aircraft over Iraq.
In July 2014, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran sent Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft to Iraq, and Hezbollah purportedly sent trainers and advisers to Iraq to monitor ISIL's movements. In August 2014, the US and Iran separately began a campaign of airstrikes on ISIL targets in Iraq. Since then, fourteen countries in a US-led coalition have also executed airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq and in Syria.
In September 2015, Russian forces, with the permission of the Syrian government, began hundreds of bombing raids against ISIL, al-Nusra Front, and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).Since the airstrikes started, ISIL has been losing ground in both Iraq and Syria. There have been multiple accounts of civilian deaths from the airstrikes. In mid-2016, the US and Russia planned to begin coordinating their airstrikes, however, this coordination did not materialize that year.As of December 2017, ISIL is estimated to control no territory in Iraq, and 5% of Syrian territory, after prolonged actions. On 9 December 2017, Iraq declared victory in the fight against ISIL and stated that the war in Iraq was over. 
Consequently, at the end of 2017, territorially ISIL was mainly defeated.