Rise and fall of the Islamic State caliphate

Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province, June 2more

Militant Islamist fighters ride horses as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's normore

A militant Islamist fighter waving a flag, cheers as he takes part in a military parade along the streets of Smore

Militant Islamist fighters waving flags, travel in vehicles as they take part in a military parade along the smore

A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi makes what wouldmore

A militant Islamist fighter uses a mobile phone to film his fellow fighters taking part in a military parade amore

Civilian children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linkmore

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during clashes with the al Qaeda-linked Ismore

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinmore

A female member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) mourns over the grave of her fellow fighter, whmore

A man holds up a knife as he rides on the back of a motorcycle touring the streets of Tabqa city with others imore

Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after a U.S.-led coalition airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar bordmore

A Kurdish refugee child cries as he and others wait inside a fenced refugee camp to pay their last respects tomore

Displaced Sunni people, who fled the violence in the city of Ramadi, arrive at the outskirts of Baghdad, Aprilmore

Shi'ite fighters fire a rocket during clashes with Islamic State militants in Salahuddin province, March 2015.more

Islamic State militants lead what are said to be Ethiopian Christians along a beach in Wilayat Barqa, in this more

A Syria Democratic Forces fighter helps civilians who were evacuated by the SDF from an Islamic State-controllmore

A detained man accused of being an Islamic State fighter sits in front of newly displaced men near a check poimore

Iraqi special forces soldiers fire weapons at Islamic State fighters in Mosul, November 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomore

A man cries over a body of a baby killed by a mortar round fired by Islamic State fighters in Mosul, Iraq, Novmore

Boys play with a ball in front of oilfields burned by Islamic State fighters in Qayyara, south of Mosul, Iraq,more

An internally displaced man has his beard trimmed as people flee the Islamic State stronghold in the town of Bmore

General view of the library of the University of Mosul burned and destroyed during the battle with Islamic Stamore

Displaced Iraqi women who just fled their home,rest in the desert as they wait to be transported while Iraqi fmore

A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul towards Irmore

Members of Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) forces look at the positions of Islamic State militants durinmore

Iraqi soldiers from 9th Armoured Division give drops of water to a dehydrated child rescued earlier by soldiermore

A female Kurdish fighter from the People's Protection Units (YPG) fires a long range sniper rifle at Islamic Smore

A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter sit as medics treat his comrades injured by sniper fired by Islamic State mmore

A tank of the Emergency Response Division fires at Islamic State militant in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Julymore

A member of Iraqi security forces holds a flag of Islamic State militants on the top of a destroyed building fmore

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) dance along a street in Raqqa, Syria, October 2017. REUTERS/more

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces calls his comrades during the fighting with Islamic State fighters inmore

An Iraqi woman Sana Ibrahim al-Taee, 64, whose five sons were killed by Islamic State militants, is seen with more

Flares are seen in the sky during fighting in the Islamic State's final enclave, in the village of Baghouz, Demore