12月14日，土耳其公开宣布，作为重新安排的一部分，它最近进入伊拉克的一些部队已开始离开巴希加地区。根据土耳其总参谋部12月16日的声明，从伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯兰国控制阵地发射的火箭弹击中位于伊拉克北部巴希加的训练基地，两名伊拉克人被打死，四名土耳其士兵受伤。
On 14 December, Turkey publicly announced that some of its troops that had recently entered Iraq had begun leaving the Bashiqa area as part of a rearrangement. According to a 16 December statement from the Turkish General Staff, two Iraqis were killed and four Turkish troops were wounded when the training base in Bashiqa in northern Iraq was targeted by rocket fire from positions under the control of the Ilamic State in Iraq and the Levant.