This is a timeline of events during the Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present) in 2020.
- 16 January 2020 - An Iraqi SWAT team announced the capture of IS mufti Abu Abdul Bari, also known as Shifa al-Nima, in Mosul who authorized the destruction of Prophet Jonah Mosque on 24 July 2014.[1] Amusingly, he was taken away on the back of a truck, since he weighed 254 kilograms (560 lb).[2]
- 19 January 2020 - Iraqi counter terrorism forces (ICTS) arrested an IS security official in Fallujah.[3]
- 8 March 2020 - Two American soldiers were "killed by enemy forces while advising and accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to eliminate an IS terrorist stronghold in a mountainous area of north central Iraq", according to the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad. One French special Operator was also wounded in the firefight, IS casualties were estimated to be 17–19 killed.[4] The two U.S. Marine Raiders were killed in the Qara Chokh Mountains near Makhmur.[5][6]
- April 28, 2020 - A militant wearing a suicide vest attacked the Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Directorate in the Qadisiyah neighborhood of Kirkuk, wounding three Iraqi security personnel. Iraqi government officials blamed the Islamic State.[7]
- May 2, 2020 - At least ten members of the PMF were killed in an attack by IS.[8]
- December 14, 2020 - 42 IS fighters were killed by Iraqi forces in the Nineveh governorate[9]