In the dead of night, it's time for the unit to go back to Irbil, 70-minute flight over northeast Syria and northwest Iraq. ... Well, there's also no explanation for that famous convoy of 53 brand new, white Toyota Hi-Luxes crossing the desert from Syria to Iraq in 2014..…
Baghdadi’s death brings a close to a manhunt that has been ongoing since the United States began operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in 2014. ... ISIS forces have to pose a threat following their defeat, reverting to their insurgent roots in Iraq and Syria. ..…
Al-Baghdadi has led IS for the last five years, presiding over its ascendancy as it cultivated a reputation for beheadings and attracted hundreds of thousands of followers to a sprawling and self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria. ... Al-Baghdadi's fighters captured a contiguous stretch of..…
“Post correspondents have spent years in Iraq and Syria documenting ISIS savagery, often at great personal risk,” Post spokeswoman Kristine Coratti Kelly, said in a statement. . ..…
The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. forces leaves the Islamic State without an obvious leader, a major setback for an organization that in March was forced by American troops and Kurdish forces out of the last portion of its self-declared 'caliphate,' which once spanned a swath of Iraq and..…
U.S raid that killed al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS who presided over its global jihad and became one of the world's most-wanted terrorists, took place just before Saturday Syria's Idlib province.. It was in the fight against IS, which brutalized thousands of people Syria and..…
It was a milestone in the fight against IS, which brutalized much of Syria and Iraq and sought to direct a global campaign from a self-declared “caliphate.” ... An unknown number of Chinese Muslims are believed to have smuggled themselves to Syria and Iraq to fight..…
At its peak, ISIS controlled a large swath of land across Syria and Iraq and maintained a force of tens of thousands of fighters recruited from more than 100 countries. ... During President Trump’s speech, he invoked the names of U.S. journalists and aid workers who were killed by ISIS..…
The vast majority of civilians killed by ISIS were Muslims, mostly in Iraq and Syria. ... He also did just appalling things to all of the people living in the areas that he was in control of in both Syria and Iraq. ..…
It was the youths of the resistance and the nations and governments of Syria and Iraq. ..…
By the imposition of version of, At its height, Islamic State controlled swaths of Iraq and Syria in self-declared state known as caliphate, characterized Islam.. ..…
While bin Laden orchestrated the deadliest militant attack in US history, the killing of al-Baghdadi — who helped the IS group at its height control more than 34,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria — was “the biggest there is,” Trump said. . ..…
In this undated file photo released in the summer of 2014 on militant account, terrorists of Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in convoy on road leading to Iraq, Raqqa, Syria ... ... According to defense officials Iraq and..…
Despite Kurds with President Trump's and Turkish operation that pushed Kurds away from territory they had controlled on Syrian side of the border with Turkey, Kurdish officials in both Syria and Iraq helped locate the target of the raid, citing American official. ... President Trump..…
The Saudis are exasperated by the Obama Administration’s courtship of Iran — the same Iran that supports their enemies in Lebanon, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Iraq, and claims control of four Arab capitals (Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Sana’a). ..…
is the vision of Islam being realized Iraq and Syria, to. The private jihad is declaration of the death of Arab and Arab liberator and of the rise of Palestinian from the sands of the order to fight the war of the heroes against the enemy, the suicide warriors, and thereby to bring back..…
He said Iran was using proxies Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, Libya, and other locations to further its dangerous plan.. ..…
He assumed control of Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaida linked group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant killed in US airstrike Iraq in 2006. In the summer of 2014, his fighters swept across Syria and northern and western Iraq, eventually carving out self-styled..…
It's worth noting that rather the purpose of continued presence of the US forces at al-Tanf military base is to address Israel's concerns regarding the expansion of Iran's influence Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.. ..…
Baghdadi announced in 2014, the creation of a “caliphate” in areas of Iraq and Syria. ..…
In April 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISI, declared that his group and Al-Nusra had merged under Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, and later Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ... The failed operations Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria demonstrate..…
But question would naturally arise in the minds of perceptive observers of the war against Islamic State Iraq and Syria that where did the remaining tens of thousands of Islamic State's jihadists vanish.. ... By motivated and battle, The reason why al-Nusra Front has been able to defeat..…
MA: To what extent has the Iranian people’s resistance and in the whole, the resistance of what is called axis of resistance (Syria, Iraq, Yemen …) been a model for the world’s dominated countries? ..…
In his remarks, Trump also expressed his gratitude to Russia, Turkey, Syria, Syrian Kurds, and Iraq, saying the mission could have taken place with the help of other nations and people.. ..…
number of Chinese Muslims are believed to have smuggled themselves to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside Islamic State.. ..…
In a statement that followed the raid, Trump thanked Russia for its assistance, as well as Turkey, Syria, Iraq and the Syrian Kurds. . ... Hundreds of US Troops Return from Iraq to Syria . TEHRAN (FNA)- American forces are returning to the bases they had withdrawn from..…
Hundreds of US Troops Return from Iraq to Syria . TEHRAN (FNA)- American forces are returning to the bases they had withdrawn from in recent days in the North and Northeast of Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, as US President Donald Trump claimed again he would pull..…
By October 2014, three years into Syria’s civil war, the Islamic State had seized territory the size of Britain straddling the Syria-Iraq border. ..…
Hundreds of US Troops Return from Iraq to Syria . TEHRAN (FNA)- American forces are returning to the bases they had withdrawn from in recent days in the North and Northeast of Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, as US President Donald Trump claimed again he would pull..…
In his remarks, Trump also expressed his gratitude to Russia, Turkey, Syria, Syrian Kurds, and Iraq, saying the mission could have taken place with the help of other nations and people.. ..…
It later declared its merger with al-Qaida-linked group Syria, known as al-Nusra Front, under the new name of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant .. ..…
None of the generals who have been tasked with fighting and winning Syria and Iraq, certainly none of the politicians. ..…
In his remarks, Trump also expressed his gratitude to Russia, Turkey, Syria, Syrian Kurds, and Iraq, saying the mission could have taken place with the help of other nations and people.. ..…
BEIRUT — Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi sought to establish Islamic caliphate across Syria and Iraq, and he might be remembered more as the ruthlessly calculating leader of Islamic State group. ..…
WASHINGTON — Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became the world's most wanted man, was killed in U.S military raid Syria, Sunday. The death of al- Baghdadi marked in the fight against Islamic State, which brutalized swaths of..…