[6] The first strike of the new operation happened on 21 October 2015, when B-1 bombers and other aircraft attacked the Al-Omar field, hitting oil refineries, command and control centers, and transportation infrastructure.

[8] On 12 November 2015, The New York Times reported that an email from US military spokesperson Colonel Steven H. Warren said, "We intend to shut it all down.

[3] On 16 November 2015, a US Operation Tidal Wave II sortie destroyed 116 ISIL fuel tankers clustered near Abu Kamal, a city on the Syrian border with Iraq.

[9] By late December 2015, Col. Steve Warren announced that airstrikes conducted by the US-led Coalition had destroyed 90% of ISIL's oil production, since the beginning of Operation Tidal Wave II.

American officials said that since the start of the campaign, the Islamic State’s oil production had plummeted, and it had lost both refining capacity and easy access to its black-market dealers in Syria and southern Turkey.

[13] In 2019, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced that the US will send armored vehicles and troops to secure the oil fields and prevent ISIL from retaking them.