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Smoke over Qayyarah West Airfield, Makhmour areas
October 22, 2016 — BAGHDAD – Combined Joint Task Force – Inherent Resolve is currently assessing the potential risk at Camp Swift and Qayyarah West Airfield as a result of the burning oil wells and the sulfur plant fire... MORE

Coalition repairs, opens airfield in Qayyarah
October 22, 2016 — BAGHDAD – The Coalition welcomed the first of many fixed-wing cargo planes to Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2016, after U.S. Air Force engineers with the 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineer Group repaired it... MORE

Media Availability with Secretary Carter and Lt. Gen. Townsend at Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq
October 22, 2016 — Media Availability with Secretary Carter and Lt. Gen. Townsend at Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq... MORE

Remarks by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at a Troop Event in Baghdad, Iraq
October 22, 2016 — Remarks by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at a Troop Event in Baghdad, Iraq... MORE

Operation Inherent Resolve Casualty
October 20, 2016 — SOUTHWEST ASIA – On October 20, 2016, a U.S. service member died from wounds sustained in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Iraq. Further information will be released as appropriate... MORE

Coalition supports ISF Mosul offensive
October 17, 2016 — BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces began the offensive to retake Mosul Oct. 17, 2016, with support from the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve... MORE

Iraqi Security Forces Begin Battle for Mosul
October 17, 2016 — On Oct. 17, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, made the following statement regarding the start of the Iraqi offensive to liberate Mosul... MORE

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Dorrian via teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq
October 12, 2016 — CJTF-OIR Spokesman U.S. Air Force Col. John Dorrian briefs the Pentagon Press Corps ... MORE

Mosul’s Liberation From ISIL ‘Inevitable,’ Canadian General Says
October 5, 2016 — Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve's director of partner force development and the ministerial liaison team said that, as the U.S.-led coalition continues to support Iraqi security forces’ operations to seize Mosul, he has “every confidence” in the Iraqi forces’ ability to retake the key city... MORE

An F/A-18F Super Hornet makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Oct. 4, 2016. The Eisenhower and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard

Coalition, ISF to conduct investigation of strike in S. Mosul
October 5, 2016 — Coalition forces conducted strikes on a building being used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after they fired at Iraqi security forces in the vicinity of Khara’ib Jabr, a village south of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 5, 2016... MORE