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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

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

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Colonel Dorrian via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq
September 29, 2016 — Department of Defense Press Briefing by Colonel Dorrian via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq... MORE

Australian soldiers, assigned to Task Group Taji, observe Iraqi soldiers with the Security Battalion, Nineveh Operations Command, firing their AK-47 rifles during night range training at Camp Taji, Iraq, April 3, 2016. Task Group Taji conducted night range training to gauge the Iraqi soldiers night firing capabilities. Training at the building partner capacity sites is an integral part of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve’s multinational effort to train Iraqi security force personnel to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. William Lockwood)

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Dorrian via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq
September 23, 2016 — Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Dorrian via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq... MORE

Soldiers from the Nineveh Plain Protection Unit patrol a mountainside during a react to contact training exercise at their training facility in the Nineveh Province, May 18, 2016. The NPPU are a small group of fighters who came together to protect their people in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Training focused on the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve overall mission to build partner capacity and increase the military capacity of local forces fighting ISIL. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sergio Rangel)

Coalition service member dies in vehicle accident
September 10, 2016 — A Coalition service member died from non-combat-related injuries during a vehicle accident in Southwest Asia Sep. 10, 2016. ... MORE