Ahead of the operation, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on Sunni tribal fighters to abandon Isis, offering what he described as "the last chance" and promising them a pardon.
It too had been overtaken, and users abandoned its offering.
A number of other media companies, including The New York Times Company and Viacom's MTV unit, abandoned plans for offering shares in their Internet units as Nasdaq plummeted.
British Gas says it is abandoning a scheme offering free or subsidised insulation to homes in Clifton, Nottingham.
If a company goes through that process publicly, and then decides to abandon the offering, its reputation gets damaged, even though it often makes sense for a company not to go public.
On Tuesday night, Nanosys, a small but prominent technology company, abandoned its public offering at the last moment, citing adverse conditions in the stock market.
"No one in Europe will be left alone, no one in Europe will be abandoned," Mrs. Merkel said, offering an olive branch to her European partners, some of whom have questioned her commitment to the union.
After less than five hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Christopher Slavin today on charges that he and a friend lured two Mexican day laborers to an abandoned building last fall by offering them work, then brutally attacked the men with a folding knife and a post-hole digger.
With theaters no longer locked into showing a single studio's films and with the major studios focusing on spectacles to lure people from their television sets, the new company found its niche in the B movies abandoned by big studios, offering such films as "The Beast With a Million Eyes" and "Girls in Prison".
Consequently, the Royal Automobile Club was left looking for a new venue and their attention turned to the plethora of wartime airfields, with their abandoned runways and taxiways offering the potential to provide cheap and easily modified circuits.
