Purpose/Mission

Details: Implement “new comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy to degrade, and ultimately defeat, ISIL”

Domestic Legal Authority

Details: “I have directed these actions, which are in the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States, pursuant to my constitutional and statutory authority as Commander in Chief (including the authority to carry out Public Law 107-40 and Public Law 107-243) and as Chief Executive, as well as my constitutional and statutory authority to conduct the foreign relations of the United States.”

Claimed International Legal Basis

Details: “These actions are being undertaken in coordination with and at the request of the Government of Iraq and in conjunction with coalition partners.”

Estimated Scope/Duration

Mission-bound but indeterminate

Details: “It is not possible to know the duration of these deployments and operations. I will continue to direct such additional measures as necessary to protect and secure U.S. citizens and our interests against the threat posed by ISIL.”

Type of Enemy or Mission

Details: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

Military Activity

Details: “deployment of 475 additional U.S. Armed Forces personnel to Iraq”; “a systematic campaign of airstrikes and other necessary actions against these terrorists [ISIL] in Iraq and Syria.”

US Casualties Reported

Unknown

Non-US Casualties Reported

Unknown

Reporting as it Relates to Termination Clock

More than 60 days sustained activity