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DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON US
Ankara sees the Syrian Kurdish fighters as an extension of its own insurgent group it labels terrorists... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES RETAKE THE COUNTRY'S LAST IS-HELD TOWN
Iraqi and American officials say IS militants are expected to continue carrying out insurgent-style attacks in Syria, Iraq and beyond... READ MORE›
NATO DEFENSE MINISTERS AGREE TO INCREASE USE OF CYBERWEAPONRY TO COMBAT RUSSIA
The revamp reflects the changed security environment of recent years, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said at a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels... READ MORE›
LEBANON'S PM QUITS OVER IRAN TENSIONS AND CONCERN FOR HIS SAFETY
Saad Hariri quits in speech televised from Saudi Arabia, citing Iranian influence in region and saying he fears assassination... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY RETAKES ONE OF ISIS'S LAST REMAINING URBAN STRONGHOLDS
ISIS's last territorial stronghold in Iraq was the town of Qaim, across the border from the Syrian town of Boukamal... READ MORE›
MANCHESTER ACTOR MICHAEL ENRIGHT PLAYS ARIANA GRANDE IN RAQQA TO DEFY ISLAMIC STATE
The group is now mostly confined to the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor in the east of Syria, along the border with Iraq... READ MORE›
US-BACKED FORCES TAKE SYRIA'S LARGEST OIL FIELD FROM IS
Most of the territory the group once held has been seized by an array of Syrian and Iraqi forces... READ MORE›
AFTER RAQQA, THE U.S. SEES RUSSIA, ASSAD LOOMING OVER REMAINING SYRIAN BATTLEFIELD
That leaves the SDF vulnerable to potential military action by Turkey to quell its aspirations for a ministate in Syria... READ MORE›
AFTER THE CALIPHATE WHATS NEXT FOR ISIS
In Iraq, where the group that became the Islamic State took root, security officials are bracing for future waves of suicide attacks against civilians... READ MORE›
FALL OF RAQQA NO END GAME FOR U.S. AS ISLAMIC STATE, OTHER EXTREMIST THREATS PERSIST, SPREAD
The U.S. military on Tuesday estimated 6,500 IS fighters remain in eastern Syria and western Iraq, many concentrated along the Euphrates River valley straddling the border... READ MORE›
ISIS 'CAPITAL' RAQQA FALLS TO U.S.-BACKED FORCES. WHAT IT MEANS FOR TERROR GROUP'S FUTURE
ISIS 'capital' Raqqa falls to U.S.-backed forces. What it means for terror group's future... READ MORE›
BATTLE FOR ISLAMIC STATE'S SYRIAN HQ NEAR END
Islamic State militants have lost swathes of land to various offensives across Syria and Iraq, forced into a diminishing foothold along the Euphrates river valley... READ MORE›
FLEEING OFFENSIVES WHERE ARE ISLAMIC STATES JIHADIS GOING
Iraqi forces, like their counterparts in Syria, use a database to pick out suspected IS fighters from among civilians... READ MORE›
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TRUMP ENDS COVERT CIA PROGRAM TO ARM ANTI-ASSAD REBELS IN SYRIA, A MOVE SOUGHT BY MOSCOW
Just three months ago, after the United States accused Assad of using chemical weapons, Trump launched retaliatory airstrikes against a Syrian air base... READ MORE›
RUSSIA WARNS IT WILL TARGET US WARPLANES IN SYRIAN AIRSPACE
Instead of attacking, the Syrian SU-22 zoomed away, and the Americans did not attack... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. FORCES TO STAY IN SYRIA FOR DECADES, SAY MILITIA ALLIES
The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State has deployed forces at several locations in northern Syria, including an airbase near the town of Kobani... READ MORE›
U.S. TROOPS CARRY OUT GROUND RAID AGAINST ISIS IN SYRIA
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 25 Islamic State members were killed in the operation... READ MORE›
ISIS IS LOSING GROUND BUT NOT ITS CAPACITY FOR TERROR
But they may not be the most dangerous threat facing the European authorities as long as Islamic State ideology continues to motivate attackers... READ MORE›
KURDS SEE CHANCE TO ADVANCE THEIR CAUSE IN RUINS OF ISLAMIC STATE
Across the border in Raqqa, with five of its neighbourhoods under their control, Kurdish forces are contemplating what comes next for them and their cause... READ MORE›
CRITICS SAY U.S. IS SLEEPWALKING INTO WIDER ROLE IN SYRIA
Recently, the United States has shot down a Syrian warplane and downed two Iranian-made drones that were nearing American-backed troops... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY MOVES CLOSER TO ISIL-BESIEGED DEIR AZ ZOR
Pro-government fighters were also battling to eradicate a large ISIL enclave they left to their rear in central Syria as they move towards Deir Az Zor... READ MORE›
AS SYRIA WAR TIGHTENS US AND RUSSIA MILITARY HOTLINES HUMMING
Bisected by the Euphrates River, Deir al-Zor and its oil resources are critical to the Syrian state... READ MORE›
IRAQ PM ABADI FORMALLY DECLARES VICTORY
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally declared victory over so-called Islamic State IS in Mosul... READ MORE›
US COMMANDER SAYS IRAQ MUST STOP ISLAMIC STATE 2.0
US President Donald Trump sent his congratulations to his Iraqi counterpart, saying Mosul had been liberated from its long nightmare under the rule of ISIS ... READ MORE›
IRAQI TROOPS CLEARING LAST IS MILITANTS
Iraqi security forces are clearing the final pockets of resistance by Islamic State militants in the city of Mosul... READ MORE›
U.S.-LED COALITION BLOWS UP $500 MILLION IN ISLAMIC STATE CASH
Iraqi forces have launched a broad offensive to retake the city of Hit from the Islamic State... READ MORE›
DOES TURKEY REALLY GET ITS OIL FROM ISLAMIC STATE?
The petrol and diesel produced in these refineries was then sold across Syria and Iraq, with any surplus smuggled across the border, mainly to Turkey... READ MORE›
MANY DEAD IN IS ATTACK ON DISPLACED PEOPLE'S CAMP
They targeted a makeshift camp for displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees at Rajm al-Salibi, near the town of Shaddadi in Hassakeh province... READ MORE›
U.S.-BACKED FORCES SEIZE RAQQA'S OLD CITY FROM ISIS, BUT A TOUGH FIGHT STILL LIES AHEAD
After three months of fighting, Kurdish and Arab forces now control 60 percent of the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital... READ MORE›
DEFEAT OF ISIS IN NORTHERN IRAQ TOWN MARKS MILESTONE IN CAMPAIGN TO ELIMINATE GROUP
Government-sanctioned Shiite militias helped isolate the area while Iraq's military thrust into Tal Afar, which is about 50 miles west of the recently liberated city of Mosul... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE ATTACK ON U.S. BASE IN IRAQ FAILS
36 COMMENTEMAILMORE WASHINGTON Islamic State militants launched a suicide attack against a base in western Iraq where U... READ MORE›
ISIS 'CALIPHATE' NEAR COLLAPSE AS MOST OF RAQQA TAKEN BY U.S.-BACKED FORCES
Over the past two months, about 30 fighters have surrendered to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces SDF ... READ MORE›
'NOT THE END': IRAQI PM ENTERS MOSUL BUT ISLAMIC STATE'S SHADOW LINGERS
Iraqi forces still have to retake several IS strongholds Hawija and Tal Afar in northern Iraq and a series of towns in Iraq's Euphrates River valley... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES ATTACK ISIL IN AKASHAT NEAR SYRIA BORDER
Iraqi armed forces have started an offensive to dislodge ISIL fighters from an area on the border with Syria, south of the Euphrates river... READ MORE›
US HAILS IRAQI SUCCESS IN RAMADI AND PLANS NEXT MOVE
Indeed, it took the Iraqi security forces six months to retake Ramadi, after government troops fled the city in May under an Islamic State onslaught... READ MORE›
ISIS LOSSES BOLSTER BASHAR ASSAD'S ABILITY TO RECLAIM CONTROL
Still, the coalition is concerned about the Syrian regime's commitment to defeating ISIS, said Col... READ MORE›
US-BACKED OFFENSIVE AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ STUTTERS
A US-backed offensive faltered in its first week as several hundred IS militants held off a far-larger force of Iraqi ground troops... READ MORE›
HOW TO STOP HELL'S DOORS OPENING AGAIN (OPINION)
It's obvious that Assad and his allies are eyeing Deir Ezzor... READ MORE›
IRAQ SAID TO BEGIN EFFORT TO RETAKE ISIS-CONTROLLED CITY
For the Iraqis, momentum for a Falluja offensive gained steam late last week after a surge in Islamic State attacks inside Baghdad, which killed nearly 200 people... READ MORE›
IRAQ BEGINS OPERATION TO RETAKE FALLUJA FROM ISIS
Last month, Iraqi forces cleared territory along the Euphrates River valley in Anbar after the provincial capital, Ramadi, was declared fully liberated earlier this year... READ MORE›
TERRIFIED FAMILIES EMERGE FROM RUBBLE AFTER BATTLE OF RAMADI
Top iraqi shi'ite cleric wants no refuge for is-linked sunnis... READ MORE›
IRAQ'S ABADI VISITS RAMADI TO CELEBRATE ISLAMIC STATE DEFEAT
Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, had been slowed in Ramadi by explosives planted in streets and booby-trapped buildings... READ MORE›
BATTERED ISIS TURNS BACK TO INSURGENCY
In Syria, U.S.-backed militias have surrounded Raqqa, the group's capital, and breached its historic walls... READ MORE›