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 | 1 November: ISIL executed 5067 more displaced members of the Albu Nimr tribe, in the village of Ras al-Maa.[128] Thirty-five bodies of members of the same tribe were found in another mass grave.[129][130] News spread that ISIL had started rounding up and killing former police and army officer in areas under its controlespecially Mosulin order to prevent possible uprisings.[131][132] Among those killed were Colonels Mohammed Hassan and Issa Osman.[131] Suicide bombers and car bombings killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens in the Baghdad area.[133][134] Ten US airstrikes were launched in Syria and Iraq.[135] | |
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| 3 November: ISIL claimed to have captured the Jahar gas field in Homs province, Syria.[141][142] After ransoms had been paid, 234 Yazidis kidnapped in August were released.[143] Canadian planes launched their first airstrikes against ISIL near Fallujah.[144][145] US planes launched 14 airstrikes between November 2 and 3.[146] ISIL executed 36 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Ras al-Maa.[147][148] | |
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| 11 November: A car bombing killed eight people and wounded 13 in Baiji, which had been largely recaptured by the Iraqi Army; more car bombings killed nine people and wounded 24 in and near Baghdad.[164] | |
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| 14 November: The Iraqi Army reconquered the city of Baiji from ISIL.[168] Car bombings killed 17 people and wounded 57 in Baghdad.[168] | |
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| 22 November: A German father fighting at Mount Sinjar asks for more US airstrikes in the region between Sinjar and Dahuk, so that he and his family can go back to their lands and "live in peace".[171] | |
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| 23 November: Iraqi and Peshmerga forces began a campaign to retake the towns of Jalawla and Saadiya in the Diyala Governorate, with a senior official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party declaring the liberation of both towns.[172] A Kurdish commander declared all of Jalawla to be under the control of Peshmerga forces. Several casualties were sustained by planted bombs left behind by ISIL, along with dozens of soldiers wounded in the fighting.[173] Ammar Hikmat, deputy governor of Saladin Province, announced a launch by Iraqi forces on ISIL on the Baghdad-Samarra road.[174] Iraqi TV reported the road successfully opened.[175] | |
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