Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve

Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
Participant in the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi Civil War,
Seal of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
Active	10 October 2014 – present (2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Ideology	Counterterrorism
Founding leader	U.S. Central Command
Current commander	LTG Stephen J. Townsend
Deputy Commander-Strategy and Sustainment	MG Rupert Jones
Deputy Commander-Operations and Intelligence	MG Scott A. Kindsvater
Chief of staff	BG J. Scott O'Meara
Headquarters	Kuwait
Size	6,350
Allies	Contributing nations:  United States  United Kingdom  France  Australia  Canada  Jordan  Denmark  Netherlands  Belgium  Lebanon  Morocco  Saudi Arabia  Turkey  United Arab Emirates  Qatar  Bahrain  Italy  Germany  Spain  Portugal  Poland  Georgia  Japan  Taiwan  South Korea  New Zealand  Hungary  Austria  Albania  Greece  Bulgaria  Slovakia  Slovenia  Serbia  Romania  Kosovo  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Luxembourg  Latvia  Lithuania  Iceland  Ireland  Macedonia  Moldova  Montenegro  Ukraine  Croatia  Czech Republic  Cyprus  Finland  Norway  Sweden  Somalia  Kuwait  Oman  Tunisia
Battles and wars	International campaign against ISIL Iraqi Theater Syrian Theater
Website	www.inherentresolve.mil
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International campaign against ISIL

Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) is the Joint Task Force established by the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), set up by the US Central Command to coordinate military efforts against ISIL, and is composed of US military forces and personnel from over 30 countries. The stated aim of CJTF–OIR is to "degrade and destroy" ISIL. Its establishment by US Central Command was announced in December 2014, after it was set up to replace the ad hoc arrangements that had previously been established to coordinate operations following the rapid gains made by ISIL in Iraq in June. Formed in October 2014, its first "coalition integration conference" was held the first week of December 2014. Current operations are named Operation Inherent Resolve by the United States Department of Defense. The current coalition commander has expressed his intent to root out ISIL (Da’esh) from the major cities of Syria by the end of his rotation as commander.

As of August 2016^[update] U.S. Army lieutenant general Stephen J. Townsend commands CJTF-OIR in an appointment which consolidates three commander's tasks. Townsend has two deputies, a British Army officer, Major General Rupert Jones, who is currently serving as CJTF-OIR Deputy Commander-Strategy and Sustainment, and a U.S. Air Force officer, Major General Scott A. Kindsvater, who is currently serving as CJTF-OIR Deputy Commander-Operations and Intelligence. CJTF-OIR's headquarters is at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and includes approximately 500 personnel from 15 nations who are involved in coordinating operations in Iraq.