page_title: Timeline of the Iraq War (2014)
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Iraq War (2014) / Chronology / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Nineveh. Nebi Yunus. Iraqi archaeologists excavate the monumental entrance to a late Assyrian building. Mosque of Nebi Yunus (destroyed in 2014) is behind.
context_page_description: The Timeline of the War in Iraq covers the War in Iraq, a war which erupted that lasted in Iraq from 2014 to 2017, during the first year of armed conflict.
context_section_description: 2 July: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the new Islamic State, said that Muslims should unite to capture Rome in order to "own the world." He called on Muslims the world over to unite behind him as their leader.
  3 July: ISIL captured Syria's largest oilfield from rival Islamist fighters, al-Nusra Front, who put up no resistance to the attack. Taking control of the al-Omar oilfield gave ISIL access to potentially useful crude oil reserves.
  17 July: Syria's Shaer gas field in the Homs Governorate was seized by the Islamic State. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 90 National Defence Force guards defending the field were killed, as were 21 ISIL fighters. The SOHR later put the death toll from the fighting and executions at 270 soldiers, militiamen and staff, and at least 40 ISIL fighters.
  19 July: ISIL claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing, which killed 33 people and left more than 50 wounded. The explosion occurred in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district, which is the site of a major Shia shrine.
  24 July: ISIL blew up the Mosque and tomb of the Prophet Yunus (Jonah) in Mosul, with no reported casualties. Residents in the area said that ISIL had erased a piece of Iraqi heritage. Johah's tomb was also an important holy site in the Jewish heritage as well.
  26 July: ISIL blew up the Nabi Shiyt (Prophet Seth) shrine in Mosul. Sami al-Massoudi, deputy head of the Shia endowment agency which oversees holy sites, confirmed the destruction and added that ISIL had taken artifacts from the shrine to an unknown location.
  28 July: To mark the Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Fitr, which ends the period of Ramadan, ISIL released and circulated a 30-minute video showing graphic scenes of mass executions.
  The UN reported that of the 1,737 fatal casualties of the Iraq conflict during July, 1,186 were civilians.
caption: Prophet Yunus Mosque before being destroyed.
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