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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HALTS PROGRAM TO TRAIN SYRIANS TO COMBAT ISIS
Anti-Assad insurgents say they have never heard of a group called the Syrian Arab Coalition, though they welcome the prospect of increased support... READ MORE›
ATTACKS MAY PROMPT TOUGHER STANCE BY US
Iran is fighting the Islamic State, but is hardly an ally of the United States... READ MORE›
FRANCE STRIKES ISIS TARGETS IN SYRIA IN RETALIATION FOR ATTACKS
The United States provided French officials with information to help them strike Islamic State targets in Syria, known as strike packages, American officials said... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE THREATENS ATTACK ON WASHINGTON, OTHER COUNTRIES
The French government has called the Paris attacks an act of war and said it would not end its air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
UNTANGLING THE CONFLICTS IN THE SYRIAN WAR
The United States is focused on defeating the Islamic State... READ MORE›
GI KILLED FREEING PRISONERS OF ISIS IN IRAQ FIRST IN 4 YEARS
Iraqi officials said the raid involved American helicopters, Kurdish and American Special Operations forces, and airstrikes... READ MORE›
BILLIONS FROM US FAIL TO SUSTAIN FOREIGN FORCES
But in 2012, battle-hardened Islamist fighters returned from combat in Libya to rout the military, including units trained by United States Special Forces... READ MORE›
WITH STRIKES US AIMS TO PUT PRESSURE ON ISIS IN SYRIA
As recently as Friday, Mr. Obama said he would take all steps necessary to combat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
HOW THE UNITED STATES HELPED CREATE THE ISLAMIC STATE
The Bush administration's patent favoritism toward Shiite religious parties and marginalization of the Sunni Arabs had created a powerful constituency for the Islamic State in Iraq... READ MORE›
OBAMA WEIGHS MOVING U.S. TROOPS CLOSER TO FRONT LINES IN SYRIA, IRAQ
The Islamic State depends on the sale of oil and electricity inside Syria to pay for its military operations... READ MORE›
SHIITES IN IRAQ CHEER PUTINS INTERVENTION IN SYRIAN WAR
But the war with the Islamic State does not seem very far away... READ MORE›
EXPLAINER WHO IS FIGHTING WHOM IN SYRIA
HOW IT IS FIGHTING The United States leads a coalition conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State and other extremist groups... READ MORE›
STATE OF TERROR IN RISE OF ISIS NO SINGLE MISSED KEY BUT MANY STRANDS OF BLAME
Both came from Iraq, seemingly a key to top leadership in the Islamic State... READ MORE›
FOR US PILOTS THE REAL WAR ON ISIS IS A FAR CRY FROM TOP GUN
In the year since airstrikes against Islamic State militants began, American pilots have assumed a huge bulk of the war effort... READ MORE›
PENTAGON'S FAILED SYRIA PROGRAM COST $2 MILLION PER TRAINEE
Separately, in Iraq, the Pentagon has spent nearly 1 billion training and equipping security forces to counter ISIL, according to Mark Wright, a spokesman... READ MORE›
U.S. TO DEPLOY SMALL NUMBER OF SPECIAL FORCES TO SYRIA IN ADVISORY ROLE
President Barack Obama plans to deploy a small number of special operations forces to Syria to advise rebels Washington deems moderate, U.S... READ MORE›
PENTAGON PLANS SHARP SCALEDOWN IN EFFORTS TO TRAIN SYRIAN REBELS
The Kurdish homeland includes parts of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran... READ MORE›
EX-BRITISH PM TONY BLAIR APOLOGIZES FOR IRAQ WAR 'MISTAKES'
LONDON Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for mistakes made in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003... READ MORE›
OBAMA RULES OUT U.S. TROOPS ON GROUND TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE
He also sought a no-fly zone in Syria, a move Obama has resisted, in part because Islamic State has no air force... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DEFECTIONS MOUNT AS DEATH TOLL RISES, U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS
Top military officials estimate that the campaign has killed 23,000 Islamic State fighters, raising their death toll by 3,000 since mid-October... READ MORE›
U.S. PLANS TO CAPTURE THE ISLAMIC STATES CAPITAL ALREADY GO AWRY
Members of a Syrian armed group hold positions in the frontline against the Islamic State group outside Ain Issa, in the countryside of Raqqa province... READ MORE›
FIRST AMERICAN SOLDIER KILLED IN IRAQ SINCE OFFICIAL END OF COMBAT IN 2011
Five Islamic State militants were captured, officials said, and at least 10 were killed... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE FIGURES KILLED IN AIR STRIKE; BAGHDADI NOT BELIEVED AMONG THEM
Islamic State supporters said on Twitter that even if Baghdadi had been killed, his self-proclaimed caliphate straddling large areas of Iraq and Syria would survive... READ MORE›
US FORCES RESCUE IRAQI HOSTAGES FACING 'IMMINENT EXECUTION' BY ISIS
After more than a year of setbacks, Iraqi troops have in recent weeks begun to claw back losses in the centre of the country... READ MORE›
AFTER PARIS ATTACKS, PRESSURE BUILDS FOR BIG MILITARY RESPONSE TO ISLAMIC STATE
So far, however, the United States has refrained from direct bombardment of known Islamic State headquarters buildings in its self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, Syria... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S BLAIR SAYS 2003 IRAQ INVASION PLAYED ROLE IN ISLAMIC STATE RISE
Decision to disband Saddam Hussein's army after the invasion created a huge security vacuum exploited by al Qaeda, which was eventually replaced by Islamic State... READ MORE›
FIRST U.S.-TRAINED SYRIA REBEL BELIEVED KILLED IN FIGHTING
Defending the U.S.-trained fighters could become a growing job for United States, which has been waging air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DESTROYS 2,000-YEAR-OLD ARCH OF TRIUMPH IN PALMYRA
The Syrian presidency issued a rare condemnation of the destruction, describing it as Isil's revenge against a pluralistic history that threatens the extremist group's grand project... READ MORE›
U.S. PULLS PLUG ON SYRIA REBEL TRAINING EFFORT; WILL FOCUS ON WEAPONS SUPPLY
Effort would seek to enable Syrian rebels in much the way the United States had helped Kurdish forces to successfully battle Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›
AFTER THE ARAB SPRING AN EVER-DEEPENING WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST EXTREMISM
The Paris attacks have rallied the world to take action against the Islamic State, but what, if anything would work isn't clear... READ MORE›