Question: Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the U.S. military's operational name for the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, in the vernacular, Daesh), including both the campaign in Iraq and the campaign in Syria, which terminology is used to define the timeline of United States government military operations is based on the Committee on International Relations (now known as the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs)?
Context: The Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal is a United States Department of Defense service award and campaign medal.  The medal was established by Executive Order on 30 March 2016 by former U.S. President Barack Obama.  The medal may be awarded to members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard for service in Iraq, Syria, or contiguous waters or airspace retroactively from 15 June 2014 to a date yet to be determined.  Service members who were awarded the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal for service that is now covered by the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal may make application to be awarded the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal in lieu of the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.  No service member will be entitled to the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal, or Afghanistan Campaign Medal for the same action, time period, or service. The Turkish military intervention in Syria, code-named by Turkey as Operation Euphrates Shield (Turkish: "Fırat Kalkanı Harekâtı" ), was a cross-border operation by the Turkish military and Turkey-aligned Syrian opposition groups in the Syrian Civil War, which led to the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.  Operations were carried out in the region between the Euphrates river to the east and the rebel-held area around Azaz to the west.  The Turkish military and Turkey-aligned Syrian rebel groups, some of which used the Free Syrian Army label, fought against forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from 24 August 2016.  On 29 March 2017, the Turkish military officially announced that Operation Euphrates Shield was ″successfully completed″. This timeline of United States government military operations is based on the Committee on International Relations (now known as the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs).  Dates show the years in which U.S. government military units participated.  Items in bold are the U.S. government wars most often considered to be "major conflicts" by historians and the general public.  Note that instances where the U.S. government gave aid alone, with no military personnel involvement, are excluded, as are Central Intelligence Agency operations. Operation Shader is the operational code name given to the contribution of the United Kingdom in the ongoing military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).  The operation began in Iraq on 26 September 2014, following a formal request for assistance by the Iraqi government.  Prior to this, the Royal Air Force had been engaged in a humanitarian relief effort over Mount Sinjar, which involved multiple aid airdrops by transport aircraft and the airlifting of displaced refugees.  By 21 October 2014, the intervention had extended onto Syria with the Royal Air Force only mandated to conduct surveillance flights over the country.  As of 26 September 2015, the United Kingdom had flown a third of all coalition surveillance flights over Iraq and Syria.  By 26 November 2015, the Tornado GR4s RAPTOR reconnaissance pod had gathered 60% of the coalition's entire tactical reconnaissance in Iraq.  On 2 December 2015, the House of Commons approved British airstrikes against ISIL in Syria.  The UK is one of several countries directly involved in the ongoing Syrian conflict that started in March 2011. Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the U.S. military's operational name for the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, in the vernacular, Daesh), including both the campaign in Iraq and the campaign in Syria.  Since 21 August 2016, the U.S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps has been responsible for Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR). The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS ), Islamic State (IS), and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (Arabic: داعش‎ ‎ "dāʿish", ] ), is a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.  ISIL gained global prominence in early 2014 when it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in its Western Iraq offensive, followed by its capture of Mosul and the Sinjar massacre. Stephen J. Townsend is a United States Army officer who currently commands Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve and the XVIII Airborne Corps.  Townsend served with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 7th Infantry Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 78th Infantry Division, and the 10th Mountain Division.  He fought in Operation Urgent Fury, Operation Just Cause, and Operation Uphold Democracy.  With the 10th Mountain Division, he served in the War in Afghanistan, leading a task force in Operation Anaconda.  Townsend became commander of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, leading it in the Battle of Baqubah in the Iraq War.  Townsend became commander of the 10th Mountain Division in the War in Afghanistan.  In May 2015 he became commander of XVIII Airborne Corps, and in late August 2016 took command of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. The terrorist group, self-proclaimed Islamic State (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)) has committed several fundamental violations of children's rights in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and Syria The conventions protecting children's rightsis the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).  This is the most ratified international human rights treaty in history which established the widely supported view that children and young persons have the same basic general human rights as adults and also specific rights that recognize their special needs.  A further two additional protocols were adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 May 2000 covering the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.  In ISIL's rise in the recent years, they have committed various violations of the (CRC) and its protocols, which have been signed and ratified by Iraq and Syria. The German intervention against ISIL was authorized on 4 December 2015.  The involvement of the country in the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi Civil War began with the Bundeswehr mission in Syria and Iraq (codenamed Operation Counter Daesh, under the aegis of "Operation Inherent Resolve") to combat the terrorist organization ISIL.  The mission was primarily created as a reaction to the November 2015 Paris attacks. The Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition (RSII coalition), also referred to as 4+1 (in which the "plus one" refers to Hezbollah of Lebanon), is a joint intelligence-sharing cooperation between opponents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with operation rooms in Syria's Damascus and Iraq's Green Zone in Baghdad.  It was formed as a consequence of an agreement reached at the end of September 2015 between Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria to "help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group" (ISIL) with a view to combatting the advances of the group, according to the statement issued by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command.  The statement also cited "the increasing concern from Russia about thousands of Russian terrorists committing criminal acts within ISIS."
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