A New Phase in the Fight Against ISIS - Voice of America
WEB2 days ago · The United States and Iraq have announced that the U.S.-led global coalition to defeat ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) will end its military mission in Iraq by September 2025. The next 12 months will see a transition to bilateral security arrangements “in a manner that supports Iraqi forces and maintains pressure on ISIS ...
ISIS is back, says UK spy chief – POLITICO
WEB1 day ago · LONDON — ISIS has resumed its efforts to export terrorism to Britain, the head of the U.K.’s domestic spy agency has said, as he warned it is the threat that “concerns me most.”. Ken McCallum, the director general of security service MI5, on Tuesday gave the U.K.’s first threat update since 2022, offering a wide-ranging assessment of ...
U.S. airstrikes kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist ... - CBS News
WEBSep 29, 2024 · Two U.S. airstrikes killed 37 militants affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group and an al Qaeda-linked group in Syria, the military said Sunday.
US troops will leave some longstanding bases in Iraq under deal | AP News
WEBSep 27, 2024 · Updated 2:39 PM PDT, September 27, 2024. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next year, with U.S. troops departing some bases that they …
The rise and fall of the Islamic State group: The long and short ... - BBC
WEBMar 23, 2019 · In 2013, ISI began seizing territory in Syria and changed its name to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis/Isil). The next year Isis overran large parts of Iraq, proclaimed its leader...
ISIL/ISIS | Today's latest from Al Jazeera
WEB5 days ago · Iraq court sentences a widow of ISIL leader al-Baghdadi to death. The woman was charged with collaborating with ISIL and keeping kidnapped Yazidi women in her home in Mosul. 10 Jul 2024. Show...
7 U.S. troops injured in raid with Iraqi forces targeting Islamic State ...
WEBAug 31, 2024 · The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert that killed at least 15 people and saw seven...
Yazidi woman rescued from Gaza after decade in captivity - BBC
WEB6 days ago · The Islamic State group once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEB4 days ago · Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), transnational insurgent group based in western Iraq and eastern Syria. Originally an affiliate of al-Qaeda, ISIL declared the establishment of a caliphate amid significant territorial gains in 2014.
Wanted Islamic State commander killed by U.S., Iraqi forces ... - CBS News
WEBSep 14, 2024 · In: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Iraqi forces and American troops last month killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group, as well as several other prominent...