The United Nations expressed concern over the situation in Amirli, and warned about the possibility of ISIL committing a massacre in the town.

Iraqi officials stated that they had reached Amirli and broken the siege and that the military was currently fighting to clear the areas around the town.

[11] The speaker of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Qasim Atta, stated that the troops succeeded in breaking the siege by entering the Amirli from the south.

[19] After regaining control over Amirli, on 1 September, the Iraqi Army and its allies went on and retrieved the town of Suleiman Bek (90 km east of Tikrit) from ISIL.

During the raids, militiamen, volunteer fighters and Iraqi security forces looted possessions of civilians who fled fighting during the onslaught on Amirli; burned homes and businesses of the villages' Sunni residents; and used explosives and heavy equipment to destroy individual buildings or entire villages.