U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Elsheikh and Kotey were taken to an American base in Iraq that had been used as a holding area for a small number of Islamic State detainees. ... The Kurdish-held Islamic State fighters include about 9,000 members from Syria..…
Then they successfully defended it against the Islamic State. . Kurdish Syria is a small portion of a territory, known as Kurdistan, that includes parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. ..…
Islamic State's meteoric rise Iraq and Syria, did not spur the development of strategy. ... Defense Department Office of Inspector General assessed that the resurgence of Islamic State Iraq and Syria is in part because Iraqi Security Forces and Syrian Democratic Forces..…
Iraq was plunged back into full-scale war in 2014, as the alienated population in the north and west of the country fell under the sway of the Islamic State. The U.S. military responded with a campaign of air and artillery bombardment that destroyed most of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest..…
Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee estimated that there were some 14,000 to 18,000 ISIS militants active in Iraq and Syria, and that despite the military defeat of the caliphate, Islamic State leaders are “adapting, consolidating and creating conditions for an eventual..…
Pelosi said in a statement that Trump's decision is 'a deeply disturbing development that betrays our Kurdish allies' who have been Washington's closest allies on the ground in fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as ISIL, ISIS or Daesh). . ..…
Alongside the slogan of 2011, 'the people demand the downfall of the regime, chants of ' Iran out and 'Saudi out also ring out in the streets of Baghdad and Basra, as demonstrators link their own precarious situation and crumbling institutions to the presence of foreign operators Iraq.. Mr..…
European countries expressed outrage at Ankara's military operation against Kurdish militias Northern Syria as Washington continued silence over the massive air and ground assault United States long-time ally in the campaign against Islamic States of Iraq and Levant in Arab country.. ..…
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