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Timeline of ISIS in Iraq
2014-07-29 15:57 GMT
- There are no Assyrians/Christians remaining in Mosul,
all have fled to the north, to Alqosh, Dohuk and other Assyrian villages.
- All Christian institutions in Mosul (churches,
monasteries and cemeteries), numbering 45, have been destroyed, occupied,
converted to mosques, converted to ISIS headquarters or shuttered (story).
- All non-Sunni Muslim groups in Mosul -- Shabaks,
Yazidis and Turkmen -- have been targeted by ISIS. Most have fled.
- Water and electricity to the Nineveh Plain have been
cut off by ISIS.
- Mosul is now governed under Sharia law.
- 200,000 Assyrian have fled from Baghdede (Qaraqosh),
Bartella, Karamles and dozens of Assyrian villages and towns in the
Nineveh Plain north of Mosul.
- 150,000 Yazidis have fled from Sinjar and Zumar. 40,000
trapped on Shingal mountain. Thousands have died from exposure. Thousands
have been killed by ISIS.
- September 16, 2014: ISIS erases Assyrian culture,
Christian teachings from schools (story).
- September 16, 2014: Kurdish Peshmerga kill top ISIS
military commander (story).
- September 16, 2014: Kurds retake Christian villages
from ISIS (story).
- September 16, 2014: Iraq frces, Peshmerga inflict heavy
losses on ISIS (story).
- September 16, 2014: U.S. airstrikes against ISIS (story).
- September 16, 2014: 75% of Assyrians return to their
town in North Iraq (story).
- September 16, 2014: ISIS orders all Christian, Shiite
business assets to be delivered to the Islamic State (story).
- September 16, 2014: ISIS using Christian homes in Mosul
as factories for explosive devices (story).
- September 16, 2014: ISIS using using Yazidis as human
shields Against U.S. airstrikes (story).
- September 15, 2014: Assyrian delegate calls for safe
haven, UN protection for Assyrians and other minorities in Iraq (story).
- September 15, 2014: 12 Assyrians who were held by ISIS
escape by faking conversion (story).
- September 15, 2014: Yazidi member of Iraq's Parliament
calls for arming Yazidis and Assyrians (story).
- September 15, 2014: ISIS issues new curriculum in Iraq
(story).
- September 14, 2014: Some Assyrians who fled their town
say they wish to leave Iraq (story).
- September 14, 2014: Tens of thousands of Assyrian and
Yazidi children rt risk in North Iraq (story).
- September 13, 2014: Assyrian Bishop yestifies on ISIS
threat at Senate Human Rights Caucus (story).
- September 11, 2014: Five Christian Patriarchs meet with
President Obama at the White House (story).
- September 11, 2014: US House Hearing focuses on
Christian persecution in Iraq (story).
- September 10, 2014: Defense of Christians Summit,
dedicated to aiding the Christians in north Iraq, was held in Washington (story).
- September 8, 2014: U.S. air strikes wipe out Islamic
State patrol (story).
- September 8, 2014: Kurds pushing ISIS back (story).
- September 8, 2014: ISIS forbids the use of Kurdish
language in Mosul (story).
- September 8, 2014: U.S. launches new airstrikes in Iraq
(story).
- September 8, 2014: ISIS takes hostage 100 children in
Iraq's Nineveh Province (story).
- September 6, 2014: ISIS beats, kills Assyrian man for
refusing to convert (story).
- September 6, 2014: ISIS detaining large number of
residents in Mosul; looting of homes continues; ISIS holding Yazidi women;
25 Christians held by ISIS; Hundreds of Yazidi families held by ISIS; ISIS
forcing Yazidi girls to marry its fighters (story).
- September 5, 2014: ISIS sexually assaults new recruits
(story).
- September 4, 2014: Mass executions by ISIS (story).
- September 3, 2014: ISIS exuections in Tikrit, Iraq (story).
- September 1, 2014: Thousands of Refugees Apply for New
Passports in North Iraq (story).
- August 31, 2014: Iraq breaks Islamic State siege of
Amerli (story).
- August 30: 850,000 people displaced in 1 Month by ISIS
(story).
- August 30: Iraq Sunni rebels ready to fight Islamic
State (story).
- August 29: ISIS beheads Kurdish fighter (story).
- August 29: Kurdish fighters recapture 7 villages in
North Iraq (story).
- August 27: Syriac Patriarch calls Islamic State actions
'attempted genocide' (story).
- August 27: Iraqi Christians weigh taking up arms
against the Islamic State (story).
- August 26: UN Commission urges UN peacekeeping force
for Nineveh Plain in North Iraq (story).
- August 25: U.N. human rights chief condemns Islamic
State crimes in Iraq (story).
- August 25: Kurds advance on ISIS in Iraq (story).
- August 25: ISIS abduct 3 year-old Assyrian girl from
fleeing family; 3 starve to death (story).
- August 22: Iraq voids real estate sales in ISIS
controlled areas (story).
- August 21: ISIS loots Assyrian homes, vandalizes
churches in Mosul (story).
- August 20: Helicopters drop leaflets over Mosul urging
residents to fight ISIS (story).
- August 20: Five Middle Eastern Patriarchs visit North
Iraq in Solidarity with Christians (story).
- August 20: Pictures show aftermath of ISIS looting,
plundering Assyrian town (story).
- August 20: ISIS halt Iraqi offensive to recapture Saddam's
home town (story).
- August 19: UN launches new aid effort in north Iraq;
Mosul dam recaptured (story).
- August 18: ISIS forcefully circumcises Assyrian
Christian men in Mosul, sells 700 Yazidi women (story).
- August 18: ISIS kills more than 200 Yazidi men in the
village of Kojo (story).
- August 17: Kurdish militants train hundreds of Yazidis
to fight ISIS (story).
- August 17: Kurdish forces capture Telsqof, advance
towards Mosul Dam (story).
- August 14: ISIS orders all former Assyrian church
guards to surrender their weapons (story).
- August 13: ISIS forces child patients at the cancer
hospital in Mosul to hold ISIS flags and then photographed them for
propaganda purposes. ISIS completely loots and plunders all homes in the
the Assyrian Christian towns of Telsqof and Bashiqa. 100,000 Yazidi
refugees are now in the town of Khanak without food, water or shelter (story).
- August 11: ISIS orders all families in Mosul to obtain
approval before burying their dead. ISIS provides gasoline to Assyrians in
Nineveh Plain to facilitate their departure. ISIS continues kidnapping
women, with female ISIS members helping (story). Iraqi
general says 70% of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar are dead (story).
- August 9: ISIS forces all women in Mosul to wear the
veil, including the full head cover. ISIS establishes black markets for
goods to raise funds. (story).
- August 8: Iraqi Parliament passes resolution accusing
ISIS of genocide (story).
- August 8: ISIS captures Baghdede Bartella and Karamlis
and moves north into the Nineveh Plain, causing 200,000 Assyrians to flee
their towns and villages (story).
- August 7: Assyrian Patriarch Pleads to the United
Nations on Crisis in Iraq (story).
- August 6: Kurds and ISIS clash outside Baghdede; ISIS
begins using Yazidis as human shields; All the Assyrians from the villages
of Bartella, Bashiqa, Bahzany, Tel Kepe, Batnaya and Telsqof flee (story).
- August 5: ISIS shells assyrian town, 1 killed; Yazidis
in desperate state (story).
- August 4: Leader of Iraq's Yazidis issues distress
call, appeals for help against ISIS (story).
- August 4: Assyrians flee as ISIS approaches Assyrian
villages in the Nineveh Plain (story).
- August 2: ISIS Captures Yazidi towns, kills 2,000
Yazidis, causes 200,000 to flee (story).
- August 2: ISIS loots 8 million dollars from Assyrian
farms (story).
- July 29: ISIS destroys or occupies all 45 Christian
institutions in Mosul (story).
- July 25: ISIS destroys the tomb of the Prophet Jonah (story).
- July 22: ISIS and Kurds clash near Assyrian town, 2000
Assyrian families driven from Mosul (story).
- July 19: ISIS plunders Assyrians as they Flee Mosul;
families march 42 miles (story).
- July 18: ISIS in Mosul marks Christian homes with the
Arabic letter "N" (for the word Nasrani, which means Christian)
(story).
- July 17: ISIS issues statement ordering Christians to
convert or die (story).
- July 15: ISIS Stops Rations for Christians and Shiites
in Mosul (story).
- July 10: ISIS bars women from walking the streets
unless accompanied by a male. Nearly all barber shops and womens' salons
are closed (story).
- July 8: ISIS Removes Cross From Church in Mosul (story).
- July 3: ISIS seizes the house of the Chaldean
Patriarchate and the house of Dr. Tobia, a member of Hammurabi Human
Rights Organization and an Advisor to the Governor of Nineveh on Minority
Affairs and General Coordinator with International Organizations (story).
- June 28: ISIS kidnaps two nuns and three Assyrian
orphans. They are eventually released (story).
- ISIS begins confiscating the homes of Christians and
non-Sunni Muslims. ISIS rounds up many of the security agency members of
the police and army in Sabrine Mosque and asks them to declare
"repentance" and surrender their weapons and other military
equipment. After doing so, all of the prisoners are tried and sentenced
according to Sharia law and executed. ISIS has prevented delivery of
government food rations to Tel Kepe and other areas not under their
control (story).
- June 26: Kurds Clash With ISIS Near Assyrian Town East
of Mosul, forcing nearly 50,000 Assyrians to flee (story).
- June 25: ISIS limits water from the plants in Mosul to
one hour per day. Residents in surrounding areas are forced to dig wells (story).
- June 23: ISIS Rape Christian Mother and Daughter, Kill
4 Christian Women for Not Wearing Veil (story).
- June 21: ISIS begins imposing a poll tax (jizya) on
Assyrians in Mosul (story),
orders unmarried women to 'Jihad by sex' (story), destroys
the statue of the Virgin Mary at the Immaculate Church of the Highest in
the neighborhood of AlShafa in Mosul, as well as the statue of Mullah
Osman Al-Musali. Shiite Turkmen in the villages of AlKibba and Shraikhan
flee after receiving threats from ISIS. ISIS arrests 25 village elders and
young men who are Turkmen in the village of AlShamsiyat; their whereabouts
is still unknown. (story)
ISIS orders Christian, Yazidis and Shiite government employees not to
report for work in Mosul (story).
- June 19: ISIS destroys statue of the famous Arab poet
Abu Tammam (story).
- June 18: ISIS Cuts Off Water, Electricity, Destroys
Churches (story).
- June 15: Kurds attempt to remove an Assyrian council
leader in Alqosh and replace him with a Kurd (story).
- June 14: Assyrian, Yezidi and Shabak Villages come
under Kurdish Control (story).
- June 12: ISIS issues Islamic rules for Mosul (story).
- June 10: ISIS captures Mosul, occupies the Assyrian
village of Qaraqosh, enters the St. Behnam Monastery (story).
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