Summary: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), was killed in a U.S. special forces operation in northwest Syria near the Turkish border, President Donald Trump announced.

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Summary: 2016 annual report (with 2017 updates) of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom; Operation Freedom’s Sentinel) and the war against ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (Operation Inherent Resolve) and in Libya ( Operation Odyssey Lightning), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. Updates on U.S. military deaths in 2017.

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Summary: Largest U.S. mass killings since 9/11 … After pledging allegiance to ISIS, Omar Saddiqui Mateen opened fire in Orlando’s gay Pulse nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53 in the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history before dying in a hail of police gunfire.

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Summary: 2015 annual report (with 2016 updates) of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom; Operation Freedom’s Sentinel) and the war against ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (Operation Inherent Resolve), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. Updates on U.S. military deaths in 2016.

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Summary: On Friday night, November 13, 2015, eight militants wearing explosive belts and armed with assault rifles, shotguns, and hand grenades attacked six sites in Paris, killing at least 129 people and wounding more than 350, including about 100 seriously injured. The dead include many French citizens, three Chileans, two Belgians, two Mexicans, two Spaniards, two Portuguese, an American, and a Briton. ISIS has claimed responsibility for this mass-casualty commando-style terrorist swarm attack. Swarm attacks are high-risk, coordinated assaults sometimes directed against multiple targets or building complexes, using mobile groups to circumvent security measures, allowing attackers to inflict casualties, garner news coverage, and inflict considerable damage prior to the neutralization of the assailants.

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Summary: December 2014 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom; Operation Freedom’s Sentinel) and the war against ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (Operation Inherent Resolve), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. Updates on U.S. military deaths in 2015.

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Summary: November 2014 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom) and the war against ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (Operation Inherent Resolve), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.

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Summary: October 2014 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom) and the war against ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (Operation Inherent Resolve), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.

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Summary: Unanticipated but predictable consequences of the Iraq war — With sectarian tensions reemerging after the departure of U.S. troops in December 2011, Iraq continues its almost inevitable slide to sectarian civil war as a legacy of the U.S. invasion in March 2003.

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Summary: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his militias to halt attacks against U.S. forces until the withdrawal is finished at the end of 2011 as required under a Bush-era status-of-forces agreement between Washington and Baghdad. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 12, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that the Star Tribune — Minnesota’s largest and most influential newspaper — ran an extraordinary editorial that spoke to the core issues in Minnesota’s 2010 gubernatorial race.

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