Like other Marine units, MEU was focused on contesting Qaeda Iraq along Euphrates between Al-Qa'im on Iraq-Syrian and Fallujah. ..…

More broadly, blessing and enabling a Turkish operation into northern Iraq is to allow the resurrection of the Islamic State. Turkish leaders say the Syrian Defense Forces and various Kurdish militias are terrorist groups linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party. . ..…

The Arabic-language al-Manar news website quoted sources affiliated to Syrian government's armed opposition as saying that ISIL had again set up military base to train what it calls 'The Caliphate's Lion Cubs Southeastern Deir Ezzur near the border with Iraq.. Numerous reports said recent months..…