Its Baghouz enclave was the last part of the huge territory it seized in 2014, straddling large tracts of Iraq and Syria, where its Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared new caliphate.. ..…

“Muslims growing up in the West feel excluded and this leads to some being drawn to groups such as the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, which in turn have caused huge refugee flows for Muslims to the West,” they said. . ..…

It's true that Caliphate has shrunk from territories Iraq and Syria the size of United States state of Iowa to sliver of land Syria, in pocket of land around the village of Baghouz. Syria and Iraq were the centers of the two Sunni Arab Caliphates, Umayyad..…

He’s started to comment on the new “cold war” that now has Washington abuzz, a coming era — as he puts it — of “renewed great power rivalries” with China and Russia, an era, in fact, of “multi-domain warfare” that could prove far more challenging than “the asymmetric abilities of the..…

list of Middle East regimes that Podhoretz, Bennett, Ledeen, Netanyahu, and the Wall Street Journal regard Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, and Islam... ..…

Additionally, Jordan established permanent peace with Israel in 1994 and so, along with Egypt, poses no military threat; Syria has not waged war since 1973; and the two other countries that have historically threatened Israel — Libya and Iraq — have both been decimated in U.S...…

While the military enjoys the highest level of public confidence of any institution we ask about, confidence in ongoing military operations Afghanistan and Iraq- Syria is lower, with average confidence scores of 2.89 and 2.77, respectively. ..…

After Iraq, after Afghanistan, even after Syria, America will face resurgent adversaries in hard-to-manage geographically far-flung places. ..…

Since this criminal war against Yugoslavia, NATO has expanded its intervention against Libya in Africa and Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria in Asia. ..…

A senior administration official told a reporter, off the record, that 'Iraq is not just about Iraq', rather 'it was of a type', including Iran, Syria, and North Korea. . ... Feith wrote to Rumsfeld in October 2001 that action against Iraq would make it easier to 'confront..…

In January, 2019, Israeli government finalized its research on the dispossession of Jewish refugees from Arab lands and will seek more Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Iran for the value of property and assets left behind. ..…

He’s started to comment on the new “cold war” that now has Washington abuzz, a coming era – as he puts it – of “renewed great power rivalries” with China and Russia, an era, in fact, of “multi-domain warfare” that could prove far more challenging than “the asymmetric abilities of the..…

The purpose of the trip to Syria is to participate in the tripartite summit between Iran, Syria and Iraq with the participation of their senior commanders to coordinate efforts on the fight against terrorist groups in the region, ... Over the last few years, excellent..…