Timeline of the Iraq War (2015)
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This is a timeline of events during the Iraqi Civil War in 2015.
Contents
Chronology
January
- January 8 – A suicide bomber targets a police checkpoint in the town of Youssifiyah, killing seven people.[1]
- January 21 - Beginning of the Mosul Offensive in which Peshmerga forces captured large amount of territory surrounding Mosul.[2]
- January 26 – Iraqi forces recapture the entire province of Diyala from Islamic State.[3]
February
- February 24 – Multiple bomb attacks around Baghdad kill 37 people and wound dozens.[4]
March
- March 2 – Second Battle of Tikrit begins.[5]
- March 25 – American airstrikes on Tikrit, several Shiite militias go on strike.[citation needed]
April
- April – May: Al-Karmah offensive (2015)
- April 1 – After a month of hard fighting, Iranians, Iraqis and Shiite militia overcome ISIL fighters and take Tikrit.[citation needed]
May
- May 15: ISIL seizes control of the main Government building and city centre in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar Province.[citation needed]
- May 15 – 20: Battle of Ramadi.[citation needed]
- May 20: ISIL captures Ramadi.[citation needed]
June
- June 4: ISIS fighters close Ramadi dam gates, cut off water to loyalist towns[6]
- June 13: Militants attack government forces near Iraq’s Baiji refinery, killing 11 near the city of Baiji as part of the battle for control of Iraq's biggest refinery.[7]
July
- July 13: Anbar offensive begins.[8]
- July 17: A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in a marketplace in the city of Khan Bani Saad during Eid al-Fitr celebrations, killing 120–130 people and injuring 130 more. Twenty more people were reported missing after the bombing.[9][10]
- July 23: Turkey begins bombing alleged PKK bases in Northern Iraq.
August
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- August 13: 2015 Baghdad market truck bombing
- August 21: ISIS imposes a curfew on Mosul after residents spray anti-ISIS graffiti on several walls.[11]
September
October
- On October 22, Iraqi Security forces and the Popular Mobilization forces finished recapturing the city of Baiji, Iraq, its oil refinery and the surrounding region.
November
- November 13: Kurdish forces take control of Sinjar from ISIS after it was seized by IS forces in August 2014.[12]
December
December 16–17, Nineveh Plains offensive in which hundreds of ISIL fighters mount an attack against Kurdish positions but are repelled.[13]
See also
References
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- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/kurds-say-they-have-ejected-islamic-state-from-a-big-area-in-northern-iraq/2015/01/21/ac459372-a1c6-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html
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- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/islamic-state-offensive-in-northern-iraq-although-repelled-shows-groups-resilience/2015/12/17/752f207c-a4ec-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_isiraq1030p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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