US-Led Coalition Denies East Syria Strike That Killed Civilians
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group said Wednesday it did not conduct strikes in the eastern Syrian town ...
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US-Led Strike On IS-Held Syria Town Kills 23 Civilians
Islamic State jihadists established a caliphate in 2014 after seizing a large swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria, but ...
Hunger and Fear In Syria’s Tabqa After IS Defeat
When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were ...
Syria Kurds Say US Decision To Arm Them Will Hasten IS Defeat
Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in Syria said Wednesday that the "historic" US decision to provide them with ...
Route To Raqa Dotted With Discarded Veils, Burned Cars
Dozens of black veils dotted a freshly laid sand berm in northern Syria, ditched by women fleeing the Islamic State ...
US-Backed Syrian Rebels Advance On ISIS Raqqa Stronghold
A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against the ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the jihadist bastion of ...
US-Backed Forces Enter Major Jihadist-Held Syria Town
A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa on Monday as they pursued their campaign ...
Iraq Forces Make Mosul Gains, But Anti-IS War Far From Over
Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for ...
IS Now Controls Less Than Seven Percent of Iraq, Military Says
The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly ...
IS Now Controls Less Than Seven Percent of Iraq
The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly ...
Strike Kills 15 Near Syria’s IS-Held Raqa
At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected US-led coalition airstrike on Saturday near the Islamic ...
Number of Foreign Jihadists In Iraq and Syria Unknown
US intelligence agencies don't know the true number of foreign jihadists still fighting in Iraq and Syria, or the extent ...
IS Propaganda Team Killed In Iraq Air Strike
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Thursday that it had killed a propaganda chief and associates in ...
IS Counter-Attacks To Defend North Syria Stronghold
Clashes raged around a key northern Syrian town on Tuesday after the Islamic State group launched a counter-attack to fend ...
IS Counter-Attacks To Defend North Syria Town
The Islamic State group launched a counter-attack Tuesday against US-backed fighters closing in on a key jihadist-held town in northern ...
At Syria Dam, US-Backed Fighters Battle IS Jihadists
The road to the Tabqa dam in northern Syria is strewn with evidence of the clashes being waged by a ...
US Probes Mosul Bombing Amid Worries of Rising Civilian Deaths
The Pentagon said Monday it was reviewing more than 700 video feeds of coalition air strikes on west Mosul, Iraq ...
Killing ISIS Boss Is ‘only A Matter of Time’ Says Tillerson
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson welcomed members of a 68-country coalition against the Islamic State to Washington and vowed to ...
US Military Helping Op To Seize Strategic Dam Near Syria’s Raqa
The US military provided air and artillery support -- and transported local forces -- in an offensive for a vitally ...
Allies Vow To Destroy IS As Attacks Overshadow Talks
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group vowed to crush the jihadists Wednesday at a meeting overshadowed by an ...