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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "An American-led intervention in Iraq started on 15 June 2014, when President Obama ordered U.S. forces to be dispatched to the region, in response to offensives in Iraq conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). American troops went, at the invitation of the Iraqi Government, to assess Iraqi forces and the threat posed by ISIL.In early August 2014, ISIL attacked Kurdish-held territory in northern Iraq, and captured three towns in northern Iraq, close to the autonomous region Iraqi Kurdistan. Consequently, the U.S. started supplying the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces with weapons on 5 August. On 7 August, the U.S. also started humanitarian aid air droppings of food, water, and medicine for the civilians fleeing ISIL in the Sinjar Mountains. On the next day, 8 August, the U.S. began airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq.Since then, nine countries, allied with the U.S. in some coalition, have also executed airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq, more or less in concert with ground warfare of Kurdish and/or Iraqi government forces against ISIL.There have also been sporadic clashes between ISIL fighters, and U.S. and Canadian troops, several thousand of whom are acting in advisory and combat roles with Iraqi and Kurdish forces.On 1 February 2015, Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari stated that the War on ISIL is effectively World War III, due to ISIL's proclamation of a worldwide caliphate.By April 2015, ISIL had lost 25–30% of the maximum territory they had gained in Iraq in December 2014, to Iraqi and American-led Coalition forces, leaving them in possession of around 15,000 square miles of Iraq."@en }

• American-led_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014–present) abstract "An American-led intervention in Iraq started on 15 June 2014, when President Obama ordered U.S. forces to be dispatched to the region, in response to offensives in Iraq conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). American troops went, at the invitation of the Iraqi Government, to assess Iraqi forces and the threat posed by ISIL.In early August 2014, ISIL attacked Kurdish-held territory in northern Iraq, and captured three towns in northern Iraq, close to the autonomous region Iraqi Kurdistan. Consequently, the U.S. started supplying the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces with weapons on 5 August. On 7 August, the U.S. also started humanitarian aid air droppings of food, water, and medicine for the civilians fleeing ISIL in the Sinjar Mountains. On the next day, 8 August, the U.S. began airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq.Since then, nine countries, allied with the U.S. in some coalition, have also executed airstrikes on ISIL in Iraq, more or less in concert with ground warfare of Kurdish and/or Iraqi government forces against ISIL.There have also been sporadic clashes between ISIL fighters, and U.S. and Canadian troops, several thousand of whom are acting in advisory and combat roles with Iraqi and Kurdish forces.On 1 February 2015, Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari stated that the War on ISIL is effectively World War III, due to ISIL's proclamation of a worldwide caliphate.By April 2015, ISIL had lost 25–30% of the maximum territory they had gained in Iraq in December 2014, to Iraqi and American-led Coalition forces, leaving them in possession of around 15,000 square miles of Iraq.".