Iraq Kurdistan Region Airstrikes: Major insurgent attacks Foreign interventions IS genocide of minorities IS war crimes Timeline The Battle for Mosul Dam took place in August 2014 between militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Iraqi Special Operations Forces and Kurdish Peshmerga, supported by U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes.

Mosul Dam was captured by ISIL militants on August 7, 2014, after Kurdish forces retreated from the area, following a series of battles in the region.

Some American officials described the fall of the dam as a grave concern, because it could release a 20-metre (66 ft) wave of water if it was destroyed, threatening towns and cities downstream.

A continued regimen of pumping concrete grout into potential leaks meant that a long term interruption of remedial works could end in a reduction of structural integrity and disaster.

A Kurdish commander, Major General Abdelrahman Korini, told AFP that Peshmerga forces had captured the eastern side of the dam and were "still advancing."