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RUSSIAN BOMBERS HIT IS TARGETS IN EASTERN SYRIA
A military helicopter is seen in the eastern city of al-Bukamal in Syria, Nov. 17, 2017... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN BOMBERS HIT IS TARGETS IN EASTERN SYRIA
The Russian military have launched dozens of strikes on terrorists in Syria since the beginning of November... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES ADVANCE ON ISIL-HELD RAWA IN ANBAR
Rawa is the last town still held by ISIL, apart from Albu Kamal, just across the Syrian border... READ MORE›
SYRIA REGIME RESPONSIBLE FOR GAS ATTACK ON REBEL-HELD TOWN, UN FINDS
De Mistura hopes to convene an eighth round of Syrian peace talks between Assad's regime and an opposition coalition in Geneva from 28 November... READ MORE›
IRAQ FORCES ASSAULT LAST ISLAMIC STATE BASTION, ADVANCE ON KURDS
The Iraqi prime minister visited Ankara on Wednesday and discussed its reopening with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES ASSAULT LAST ISLAMIC STATE BASTION, ADVANCE ON KURDS
Updated October 26, 2017 1 25 pm Iraqi soldiers pose with the Islamic State flag along a street of the town of al-Shura, south of Mosul, Iraq... READ MORE›
TRUMP MORE OPTIMISTIC ON ISIS AFTER RAQQA THAN KEY ADVISERS
There are no signs of an impending political transition, with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's government newly strengthened... READ MORE›
IS CALIPHATE'S END 'IN SIGHT' AFTER RAQA FALL
IS caliphate's end 'in sight' after Raqa fall Trump... READ MORE›
RAQQA RECAPTURED FROM ISLAMIC STATE BY US-BACKED FORCES
The Syrian city of Raqqa, once de facto capital of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate, has fallen to US-backed forces after a gruelling four-month battle... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SAID DEFEATED IN ITS SYRIAN CAPITAL RAQQA
Another field commander, who gave his name as Abjal al-Syriani, said SDF fighters had found burned weapons and documents in the stadium... READ MORE›
DOZENS OF IS FIGHTERS SURRENDER AS RAQA'S FALL NEARS
A monitor said no Syrian members of the jihadist group remained in Raqa, and that negotiations on the fate of foreign fighters were ongoing... READ MORE›
ISIL BLAMED FOR DEADLY SUICIDE ATTACKS IN SYRIA
A Syrian army source had recently described Mayadeen as the military capital of ISIL in Deir Az Zor... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY NEARS ISLAMIC STATE STRONGHOLD AL-MAYADIN
Last month the Syrian army's advance to Deir al-Zor city lifted a three-year-long siege imposed by Islamic State on a government-held enclave there... READ MORE›
IRAN AND IRAQ PUT ECONOMIC SQUEEZES ON IRAQI KURDS
Iraq and Iran have turned to economic weapons in retaliation for Iraqi Kurdistan's independence referendum, with Baghdad closing the Kurds' airspace to int... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | HOW FAR COULD THE DANGEROUS ENDGAME IN EASTERN SYRIA GO?
They're fulfilling President Bashar al-Assad's goal of reasserting Syrian sovereignty over every inch of Syria -- and also making sure the United States stays out... READ MORE›
IRAQ'S ARMY REGAINS ISIL AREA ON SYRIAN BORDER
The Shia-led Iraqi government in Baghdad has good relations with both Tehran and Washington... READ MORE›
WITH ASSAD'S FATE SECURE, RUSSIA SETS ITS SIGHTS ON ISIS FIGHTERS IN SYRIA
Russian commander says defeat of Islamic State is imminent after Syrian forces recapture strategic town of Okeirbat... READ MORE›
RETREATING ISIS FIGHTERS PREPARE FOR 'LAST STAND' IN SYRIA
After losing control of the city of Deir ez-Zor, Isis fighters have retreated towards the Euphrates river... READ MORE›
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SYRIA SAYS U.S.-LED JETS HIT ITS TROOPS, DOZENS REPORTED KILLED
Officials have accused the government of not providing letters to allow convoys to reach other besieged areas in Syria... READ MORE›
U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY ARRIVES IN IRAQ ON UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO MEET IRAQI LEADERS
Mattis said that after retaking Tal Afar, Iraqi forces would move against the western Euphrates river valley... READ MORE›
AFTER ALEPPO, SYRIA'S ASSAD STILL FAR FROM REGAINING HIS STATE
They took it from the drawer and implemented it, said Ayman Abdel Nour, a former friend and pro-reform political appointee of Assad who left Syria in 2007... READ MORE›
IN SYRIA AND IRAQ, THE ISLAMIC STATE IS IN RETREAT ON MULTIPLE FRONTS
Read more Operation launched against Islamic State near base where U.S. Marine killed Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... READ MORE›
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOUGHEST BATTLES STILL TO BE FOUGHT AGAINST ISIS
The battle in Mosul is finally over, but the militants still control a sizable area, mostly in Syria but also Iraq... READ MORE›
U.S.-BACKED SYRIAN MILITIAS PUSH INTO ISLAMIC STATE-HELD RAQQA
Islamic State had turned back an earlier SDF assault on a military base on the north side, the Observatory said... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE COUNTER ATTACK CAUSES FIERCE CLASHES IN SYRIA'S RAQQA
The assault marked Islamic State's first sustained effort to fight back against the slow advance into Raqqa by the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF ... READ MORE›
NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND THOUSANDS CAUGHT IN IRAQ'S ANBAR OFFENSIVE
Haditha, one of the few government-held towns in Anbar, is increasingly cut off by Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY BATTLES TO TAKE PALMYRA AFTER SEIZING CITADEL
But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting continued in that area, adding that Islamic State militants had launched counter-attacks... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE US-BACKED RAQQA BATTLE SHOULD END IN TWO MONTHS SAYS SENIOR SDF COMMANDER
Islamic State will fight until the end, and many of its remaining militants in Raqqa are foreign fighters who will carry out suicide attacks, Ahmed said... READ MORE›
SUNNI RESENTMENT MUDDLES PROSPECT OF REUNIFYING IRAQ AFTER ISIS
At the same time, each victory over the Islamic State sets off new humanitarian crises that Iraq and other nations have struggled to face... READ MORE›
FRANCE CARRIES OUT AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE
The multiple airstrikes were the first in Syria by France as it expands its mission against IS until now centered in Iraq... READ MORE›
SYRIAN ARMY ENCIRCLES ISLAMIC STATE IN CENTRAL SYRIA ADVANCE
Driving Islamic State militants out of that pocket would reduce pressure on the road... READ MORE›
IRAQ TROOPS BATTLE IS IN MOSUL, UN SAYS DOZENS EXECUTED
Later Friday, the fighting eased off, although CTS forces still occasionally fired mortar rounds towards IS positions in eastern Mosul's Arbajiyah area... READ MORE›
LIFE UNDER ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ'S FALLUJA
Life under Islamic State in Iraq's Falluja danger, rage and profit... READ MORE›
U.S.-BACKED SYRIAN FIGHTERS FIND TROVE OF ISLAMIC STATE PAPERS, DIGITAL DEVICES, TUNNEL NETWORK
Their goal was to cut Islamic State military supply lines in the Euphrates Valley between Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
IF AL-BAGHDADI IS DEAD, NEXT ISLAMIC STATE LEADER LIKELY TO BE SADDAM-ERA OFFICER
Al-Obaidi or al-Jumaili would be unlikely to become caliph because they lack religious standing and the Islamic State group has lost much of its territory... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SHOOTS CIVILIANS FLEEING ACROSS EUPHRATES AS IRAQ FORCES TAKE SOUTH FALLUJAH, FIND MASS GRAVE
The Islamic State group is shooting and killing civilians who try to flee Fallujah, a city besieged by Iraqi forces, the Norwegian Refugee Council NRC sa... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE ATTACK NEAR SYRIA REFUGEE CAMP ON IRAQ BORDER KILLS 32
Suicide attackers blew themselves up outside and inside a camp for Iraqi refugees and displaced Syrians in Hasakeh province... READ MORE›
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS FEARED TRAPPED BY ISLAMIC STATE AS IRAQI TROOPS BREACH TAL AFAR DEFENSES
Up to 2,000 battle-hardened militants remain in Tal Afar, according to U.S. and Iraqi military commanders... READ MORE›
AFTER FALL OF ALEPPO, SYRIA'S ASSAD STILL FAR FROM REGAINING HIS COUNTRY
Still, Assad himself signaled in a December television interview that in the end he intended to restore Damascus' sway across the country... READ MORE›