During the course of the Battle of Mosul (2016–17) an international coalition, primarily composed of the Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga, CJTF–OIR, along with the allied Popular Mobilization Forces, captured Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which had used Mosul as the capital for the Iraqi half of its "caliphate."
Commanded by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah (commander of the operation), Major General Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri (ISF commander of the operation)
Commanded by President Massoud Barzani
Commanded by Lieutenant General Stephen J. Townsend