November 7, 2013

• ISIS begins operating in Syria.

January 3, 2014

• Fallujah becomes captured by ISIS.

February 1, 2014

• ISIS is severed from Al-Qaeda.

June, 2014

• ISIS begins their attacks by capturing Mosul.
• Defacing churches around the city.
• Seizes control over the water line and electricity.
• ISIS begins rounding up non-Sunni Muslims and Christians for      punishment by execution.

July, 2014

• ISIS continues to place new rules in Mosul.
• No women are allowed to walk the streets without man’s permission or accompaniment.
• For the first time, ISIS and the Kurds begin combat.

August, 2014

• The execution of 2,000 Yazidis takes place.
• Nearly 200,000 Yazidis flee from ISIS.
• Iraqi leader calls for aid against ISIS.
• Assyrian leader begs for help from United Nations.
• ISIS begins moving across plains, capturing nearby cities wherever they go.
• Kurdish forces begin training Yazidi men to fight ISIS.
• The United Nations launch plan to help against ISIS.
• Nearly 900,000 people were removed from their homes because of ISIS.

September, 2014

• ISIS continue terror reign by massacring thousands of Iraqis.
• ISIS takes over 100 children as hostages.
• U.S. launches first airstrikes against ISIS.
• Kurdish forces destroy top military commander.
• U.S. continues launching airstrikes while ISIS uses hostages as cover.
• People begin returning to their homes in Northern Iraq.
• ISIS commander encourages Muslims around the world to kill non-Muslims.
• ISIS posts video of executing American journalist.

October, 2014

• ISIS posts video of British worker being executed.
• ISIS threatens to kill another American hostage.
• British Air Force to commence airstrikes upon ISIS.
• ISIS moves closer to Baghdad airport.
• Nearly 10,000 militants gather at gates of Baghdad.
• U.S. continues to fly airstrikes over suspected ISIS bases.