Islamic State vows to step up fight against Syria Kurds, U.S.-led coalition
The Islamic State group vowed to intensify its fight against the U.S.-led coalition and Kurds in eastern Syria, in a video posted Sunday on its Telegram channel. "The fire of the battle between us and them has been reignited and will intensify," the jihadi group ...
Ex-Ritsumeikan teacher, a suspect in 2016 Dhaka terror attack fatal to 22, held in Iraq
A Bangladeshi academic believed to have played a role in planning a July 2016 terror attack in Dhaka that killed 22 people, including seven Japanese, is being detained in northern Iraq, a Bangladesh intelligence official said Monday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said ...
Dozens of Islamic State group jihadists emerged from tunnels to surrender to U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a day after their "caliphate" was declared defeated. Syria's Kurds warned that despite the demise of the proto-state, the thousands of foreign jihadis they have detained ...
U.S.-backed Syrian forces were sweeping on Thursday through the final enclave that had been held by Islamic State fighters, and said they would declare the group defeated once a search for hidden mines and jihadist holdouts was complete. "Our forces are still conducting combing and ...
The operation to take Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria looked close to an end on Wednesday, with no sign of clashes as U.S.-backed fighters said they were combing the area for hidden jihadis. Reuters reporters overlooking Baghouz from a hill on the bank ...
IS says displacements from Syria's Baghouz will not weaken the group
An Islamic State spokesman said Monday the displacement of "the weak and poor" from Syria's Baghouz would not weaken the group. "Do you think the displacement of the weak and poor out of Baghouz will weaken the Islamic State? No," Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer said in ...
U.S.-backed forces said Wednesday the Islamic State group was living its "final moments" after thunderous shelling on its last scrap of land in eastern Syria prompted 3,000 jihadists to surrender. But the die-hard IS fighters who stayed to defend the remnants of their "caliphate" struck ...
U.S.-backed fighters are moving slowly into Islamic State's final pocket in eastern Syria to avoid losses in the face of sniper fire and land mines, a commander said on Monday. Warplanes flew above Baghouz, a cluster of houses on the banks of the Euphrates at ...
U.S. general warns of Islamic State resurgence as 'caliphate' collapse nears and survivors flee
A top U.S. commander warned Thursday that the battle against the Islamic State group was "far from over" despite the jihadists' loss of territory, as survivors abandoned the last shred of the group's collapsing "caliphate" in eastern Syria. A fierce assault by U.S.-backed forces has ...
Prominent French jihadi Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain's wife, Dorothee Maquere, said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded in the coalition drone ...
Hundreds of people crammed onto trucks leaving the last scrap of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in eastern Syria on Wednesday as U.S.-backed forces prepared to deliver the final blow to holdout jihadis. Several thousand people — fighters and their relatives — are believed to ...
U.S.-backed Syria force screens and treats Islamic State 'caliphate' survivors
U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria on Tuesday screened and treated truckloads of suspected jihadis and relatives who left a village where the Islamic State group's "caliphate" is making its last stand. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) struggled to cope with the flow of people ...
