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International military intervention against the Islamic State infobox
Part of the Second Libyan Civil War, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Syrian civil war and spillover of the Syrian civil war, Sinai insurgency, Boko Haram insurgency, insurgency in the North Caucasus, War on terror, and Moro conflict


Top: Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft flying over northern Iraq.
Left: F-22 Raptor refueling before a strike in Syria.
Right: Peshmerga special forces gathered near Syria.
Middle: An American F/A-18C Hornet aboard USS George H.W. Bush prior to the launch of operations over Iraq.
Bottom: Map of the situation in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon
as of October 18, 2019.
Map of the current military situation in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon
Map of the current military situation in Libya
Map of the current military situation in Nigeria
Map of the current military situation in Sinai
Map of the current military situation in Yemen
Date13 June 2014 – present
(10 years, 6 months and 1 week)
Location
Status
Ongoing; ISIL militarily defeated in Iraq and Syria
    • Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda positions in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria and Afghanistan
    • Multinational humanitarian efforts
    • Arming and supporting local ground forces
    • Millions of civilians in Iraq and Syria flee their homes, sparking a refugee crisis
    • Terrorist attacks in Paris (Jan 2015 and Nov 2015), Brussels (Mar 2016) and many other places
    • Thousands of civilians executed by ISIL forces in Iraq and Syria
    • ISIL controlled around 40% of Iraq at its peak in mid-2014[71]
    • ISIL controlled around 50% of Syria by late May 2015[72][73]
    • Emergence of independently-governed Kurdish regions
    • ISIL lost all of its territory in Libya[74][75]
    • Boko Haram loses territory, but his insurgency continues[76]
    • ISIL controlled 5.67% of Syria's land by November 2017[77] and around 3% of Iraq by October 2017[78]
    • ISIL loses all territory in Iraq and most territory in Syria in December 2017[79]
    • ISIL loses all remaining territory in Syria in March 2019[80]
Belligerents

Intervening in Syria only:



Local forces:

Local forces in Syria:



 Algeria[65]



Commanders and leaders

Barack Obama (until 2017)
Donald Trump (2017–2021)
Joe Biden (from 2021)
David Cameron (until 2016)
Theresa May (2016–2019)
Boris Johnson (from 2019)
Tony Abbott (until 2015)
Malcolm Turnbull (2015–2018)
Scott Morrison (from 2018)
Elio Di Rupo (until 2014)
Charles Michel (2014–2019)
Sophie Wilmès (2019–2020)
Alexander De Croo (from 2020)
Bahrain Hamad Al Khalifa
Stephen Harper (until 2015)
Justin Trudeau (from 2015)
Helle Thorning-Schmidt (until 2015)
Lars Løkke Rasmussen (until 2019)
Mette Frederiksen (from 2019)
France François Hollande (until 2017)
France Emmanuel Macron (from 2017)
Angela Merkel (until 2021)
Olaf Scholz (from 2021)
Matteo Renzi (until 2016)
Paolo Gentiloni (2016–2018)
Giuseppe Conte (2018–2021)
Mario Draghi (from 2021)
King Abdullah II
Morocco King Mohammed VI
Netherlands Mark Rutte
Norway Erna Solberg (until 2021)
Norway Jonas Gahr Støre (from 2021)
Qatar Tamim Al Thani
Saudi Arabia King Abdullah † (until 2015)
Saudi Arabia King Salman (from 2015)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
United Arab Emirates Khalifa Al Nahyan


Syria Bashar al-Assad


Iraq Nouri al-Maliki (until 2015)
Iraq Fuad Masum (until 2017)
Iraq Haider al-Abadi
Iraq Barham Salih
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis  


Masoud Barzani
Nechirvan Barzani


Iran Ali Khamenei
Iran Hassan Rouhani
Iran Ebrahim Raisi
Iran Qasem Soleimani  
Hassan Nasrallah


Russia Vladimir Putin


Lebanon Michel Aoun


Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain (until 2018)
Pakistan Arif Alvi
Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain (until 2017)
Pakistan Nawaz Sharif (until 2017)
Pakistan Imran Khan
Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani


Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi


Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari
Chad Idriss Déby
Cameroon Paul Biya
Niger Mahamadou Issoufou
Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza


Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi   (Leader)[81]
Islamic State Abu Ali al-Anbari 
(Deputy Leader of ISIL)[82]
Abu Ayman al-Iraqi  (Head of Military Shura)[83][84]
Abu Suleiman al-Naser  (Replacement Military Chief)[84]
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani  (Deputy Leader, Iraq)[85]
Abu Omar al-Shishani  (Chief commander in Syria)[86][87][88][89]
Abu Muhammad al-Kadari  (ISIL commander of the North Caucasus)
Abu Nabil al-Anbari  (former ISIL commander of North Africa)[90]
Abubakar Shekau (ISIL Emir of West Africa)[66]

Abu Abdullah al-Filipini (ISIL Emir of the Philippines and Co-Leader of Abu Sayyaf) 

Radullan Sahiron (Co-Leader of Abu Sayyaf)


Abu Khayr al-Masri  (al-Qaeda deputy leader)[91][92][93]
File:Flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.svg Abu Jaber (Leader of Tahrir al-Sham, 2017)
Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Leader of the al-Nusra Front, Tahrir al-Sham (2017–present))
Abu Humam al-Shami 
(al-Nusra Military Chief)[94]
Mohammed Islambouli (Leader of Khorasan)[95]
Abu Omar al-Turkistani  (TIP and al-Nusra military commander)[70]


Strength
United States:
  • 4,100 troops (in Iraq)[96]
  • 2,500 troops (in Kuwait)[97]
  • 7,000 contractors[98][99]
  • 500 soldiers to retrain the Iraqi army[100]
Australia:
  • 400 RAAF personnel[101]
  • 200 special forces troops
  • 300+ Regular soldiers (combined with 100+ New Zealand Soldiers)[102]
Canada:
Germany:
Italy:
  • 130 search and rescue team
  • 1,200 troops[104][105]

Russia:

Iran:

Nigeria:
  • Army: 130,000 active frontline troops. 32,000 active reserve troops.
  • Police Force: 371,000 officers
Cameroon:
  • 20,000 soldiers
African Union:
  • 8,700 soldiers
ISIL:
  • 200,000 in Iraq and Syria (claim by Iraqi Kurdistan Chief of Staff)[109]
  • 28,600–31,600 in Iraq and Syria (Defense Department estimate)[110]
  • 35,000–100,000 (State Department estimate)[111]
  • 6,500–10,000 in Libya[112][113]
  • 7,000–10,000 in Nigeria[114]
  • 1,000–3,000 in Afghanistan[115][116]
  • At least 400 in the Philippines and Malaysia
  • Up to 600 tanks[117][118]

Al-Qaeda:

Casualties and losses
Iraq Republic of Iraq:
Syria Syrian Arab Republic:
    • 8,000+ soldiers killed[124]
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Syrian Kurdistan:
    • 11,000+ fighters killed[125]
Kurdistan Region Iraqi Kurdistan:
    • 1,500+ fighters killed[126]
    • 6,000+ fighters wounded[127]
    • 52 fighters missing[128]
Egypt Egypt:
    • 700 security forces killed[129]
Chad Chad:
Nigeria Nigeria:
Iran Iran:
United States United States:
Cameroon Cameroon:
Turkey Turkey:
Niger Niger:
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia:
    • 3 border guards killed[150]
Russia Russia:
Canada Canada:
France France
    • 2 servicemen killed
United Kingdom United Kingdom
    • 3 servicemen killed
Jordan Jordan:
    • 1 serviceman executed[156]
Islamic State Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
    • 80,000+ killed[157] and 33,000+ targets destroyed or damaged in the American-led intervention in Iraq and Syria[158]
    • 1,500–2,500 killed in Libya[159][160]
    • 974 killed in Philippines
    • 300 killed in Afghanistan[161]
    • 131+ killed in Egypt[162][163][164]


Total: 85,000+ militants killed

At least 28,000 Iraqi civilians killed by ISIL[126][167][168]
8,317–13,190 civilians killed by Coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria (Per Airwars)
1,417 civilians killed by Coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria (Per Coalition) [169]
4,096–6,085 civilians killed by Russian airstrikes in Syria[170] At least 5,939 civilians killed by ISIL in Syria[171] 7 civilians killed by airstrikes in Libya[172]
Thousands of civilians killed by ISIL outside of Iraq and Syria (See also List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL)

7,600,000 Syrian civilians displaced[173]
3,300,000 Iraqi civilians displaced[173]
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