December 2014
Kobani
Sinjar
Raqqa
Mosul
Syria
Iraq
Damascus
Baghdad
Isis control
Isis support
Isis proclaimed its ‘caliphate’ in June 2014 after it seized Mosul. By the end of the year the self-declared state was at its territorial peak, stretching across two countries
June 2015
Kobani
Raqqa
Mosul
Palmyra
Baghdad
Damascus
By the middle of 2015 Isis had lost most of its territory on the Syria-Turkey border to Kurdish forces, but had taken the historic Syrian city of Palmyra
May 2017
Kobani
Raqqa
Mosul
Falluja
Baghdad
Damascus
Having lost Falluja to Iraqi forces in 2016, Mosul was liberated in July 2017. Across the border, Raqqa was taken in December 2017, dealing a highly symbolic blow to the group
March 2019
Kobani
Raqqa
Mosul
Baghuz
Falluja
Damascus
Baghdad
About five years after the caliphate was declared, Isis was driven out of the last pocket of land it held in the Syrian desert town of Baghuz
June 2015
December 2014
Kobani
Raqqa
Kobani
Raqqa
Mosul
Mosul
Syria
Iraq
Palmyra
Baghdad
Damascus
Baghdad
Damascus
Isis control
Isis support
Isis proclaimed its ‘caliphate’ in June 2014 after it seized Mosul. By the end of the year the self-declared state was at its territorial peak, stretching across two countries
By the middle of 2015 Isis had lost most of its territory on the Syria-Turkey border to Kurdish forces, but had taken the historic Syrian city of Palmyra
May 2017
March 2019
Kobani
Raqqa
Kobani
Raqqa
Mosul
Mosul
Baghuz
Falluja
Baghdad
Falluja
Damascus
Damascus
Baghdad
About five years after the caliphate was declared, Isis was driven out of the last pocket of land it held in the Syrian desert town of Baghuz
Having lost Falluja to Iraqi forces in 2016, Mosul was liberated in July 2017. Across the border, Raqqa was taken in December 2017, dealing a highly symbolic blow to the group
June 2015
May 2017
March 2019
December 2014
Kobani
Sinjar
Raqqa
Kobani
Kobani
Kobani
Raqqa
Raqqa
Raqqa
Mosul
Mosul
Mosul
Mosul
Baghuz
Syria
Iraq
Palmyra
Baghdad
Falluja
Baghdad
Falluja
Damascus
Baghdad
Damascus
Damascus
Baghdad
Damascus
Isis control
Isis support
Isis proclaimed its ‘caliphate’ in June 2014 after it seized Mosul. By the end of the year the self-declared state was at its territorial peak, stretching across two countries
About five years after the caliphate was declared, Isis was driven out of the last pocket of land it held in the Syrian desert town of Baghuz
By the middle of 2015 Isis had lost most of its territory on the Syria-Turkey border to Kurdish forces, but had taken the historic Syrian city of Palmyra
Having lost Falluja to Iraqi forces in 2016, Mosul was liberated in July 2017. Across the border, Raqqa was taken in December 2017, dealing a highly symbolic blow to the group