Anonymous
Beloved of All
These are highlights of the last eight days only from the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant Let us remember to pray for the families of the innocent civilians and continue to pray for the U.S. to have discernment and unity in its leadership in this cause, and the favor of its Allies and the praying believers in the World in Jesus name.
13 October: US airplanes launched 21 strikes against ISIL forces near the besieged town of Kobane in northern Syria on the border with Turkey.[446]
14 October: ISIL forces captured the Iraqi city of HÄ«t, after the 300-strong Iraqi Army garrison abandoned its local base, and about 180,000 civilians fled the area.[447][448] Taliban leaders in Pakistan swore loyalty to ISIL, after fundamentalists in Egypt and Libya had done the same several days previously.[449] A suicide car bombing killed 25 people in Baghdad, including Iraqi Parliament member and deputy leader od Badr Organization Ahmed al-Khafajii; 3 more people were killed by a roadside bomb.[450] Reports spread about the formation of small Syrian armed groups which target and kill ISIL members in ISIL-controlled territory.[451]
Between 7 and 14 October, 42 people were killed in Turkey in clashes between Kurdish fighters and ISIL supporters, 12 of them in Diyarbakir.[452]
15 October: The US anti-ISIL operation was named "Operation Inherent Resolve".[453] The US launched 18 airstrikes against ISIL forces in Kobane.[454] Forty-six people were executed by ISIL in Mosul.[455]
16 October: ISIL has been driven out of most of Kobane, except for two pockets of resistance in the east of the town.[456] Four car bombings killed 36 people and wounded 98 in Baghdad[457] Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti announces that Italy is to send 280 soldiers to train Kurd fighters, plus two Predator drones and a KC-767 refuelling plane.[458]
17 October: Iraqi Army and police storm an ISIL camp in Jaberiya, killing 60 ISIL militants; other senior ISIL figures are killed in another attack near Ramadi[459] Residents of Aleppo area report that three MiG-21 or MiG-23 fighters are being flown by ISIL militants under training by former Iraqi Ba'ath officers at Al Jarrah air base.[460] Yemen leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula urge all jihadists to "forget their differences" and join ISIL in the fight against Western "crusaders".[461][462]
17–18 October: U.S. launch 25 air strikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.[463]
18 October: car bombings kill 30 people in Baghdad.[464][465]
19 October: a suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 28 outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.[466][467]
20 October: airstrikes kill 60 ISIL militants in Anbar province.[468] Suicide bombers and car bombings killed 43 people and wounded 85 in Baghdad and Karbala.
[469][470] After preventing Kurd reinforcements from reaching Kobane for weeks, Turkey finally agreed to let Peshmerga reinforcements pass through Turkish territory to reach Kobane, while U.S. Air Force started dropping weapons and supplies to the Kurds resisting in the town.[471] ISIL members wounded and tried to kidnap Abu Issa, leader of the rebel group Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa, in the Turkish town of Urfa[472][473]
13 October: US airplanes launched 21 strikes against ISIL forces near the besieged town of Kobane in northern Syria on the border with Turkey.[446]
14 October: ISIL forces captured the Iraqi city of HÄ«t, after the 300-strong Iraqi Army garrison abandoned its local base, and about 180,000 civilians fled the area.[447][448] Taliban leaders in Pakistan swore loyalty to ISIL, after fundamentalists in Egypt and Libya had done the same several days previously.[449] A suicide car bombing killed 25 people in Baghdad, including Iraqi Parliament member and deputy leader od Badr Organization Ahmed al-Khafajii; 3 more people were killed by a roadside bomb.[450] Reports spread about the formation of small Syrian armed groups which target and kill ISIL members in ISIL-controlled territory.[451]
Between 7 and 14 October, 42 people were killed in Turkey in clashes between Kurdish fighters and ISIL supporters, 12 of them in Diyarbakir.[452]
15 October: The US anti-ISIL operation was named "Operation Inherent Resolve".[453] The US launched 18 airstrikes against ISIL forces in Kobane.[454] Forty-six people were executed by ISIL in Mosul.[455]
16 October: ISIL has been driven out of most of Kobane, except for two pockets of resistance in the east of the town.[456] Four car bombings killed 36 people and wounded 98 in Baghdad[457] Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti announces that Italy is to send 280 soldiers to train Kurd fighters, plus two Predator drones and a KC-767 refuelling plane.[458]
17 October: Iraqi Army and police storm an ISIL camp in Jaberiya, killing 60 ISIL militants; other senior ISIL figures are killed in another attack near Ramadi[459] Residents of Aleppo area report that three MiG-21 or MiG-23 fighters are being flown by ISIL militants under training by former Iraqi Ba'ath officers at Al Jarrah air base.[460] Yemen leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula urge all jihadists to "forget their differences" and join ISIL in the fight against Western "crusaders".[461][462]
17–18 October: U.S. launch 25 air strikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.[463]
18 October: car bombings kill 30 people in Baghdad.[464][465]
19 October: a suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 28 outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.[466][467]
20 October: airstrikes kill 60 ISIL militants in Anbar province.[468] Suicide bombers and car bombings killed 43 people and wounded 85 in Baghdad and Karbala.
[469][470] After preventing Kurd reinforcements from reaching Kobane for weeks, Turkey finally agreed to let Peshmerga reinforcements pass through Turkish territory to reach Kobane, while U.S. Air Force started dropping weapons and supplies to the Kurds resisting in the town.[471] ISIL members wounded and tried to kidnap Abu Issa, leader of the rebel group Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa, in the Turkish town of Urfa[472][473]
