U.S. military claimed 'success' in hacking Islamic State online propaganda efforts, documents show
The U.S. military claims to have "successfully" disrupted the online propaganda efforts of the Islamic State in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016, according to declassified national security documents released Tuesday. The heavily redacted, previously top secret documents said the U.S. Cyber ...
New Islamic State group leader confirmed, with link to enslavement of Yazidis
Intelligence services have identified the new leader of the Islamic State (IS) group as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, British newspaper The Guardian reported on Monday. The paper, citing officials from two unnamed spy services, described him as one of the terrorist group's founding ...
French police arrest seven for Islamist extremist-linked terror plot
Security forces on Monday arrested seven men believed to be planning a terror attack in France and preparing to travel to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria, according to sources close to the case. They were detained by France's DGSI domestic intelligence agency in the ...
Iranian attack on base in Iraq wounded 11 American troops, U.S. reveals
At least 11 American troops were injured in an Iranian attack on an Iraqi base where American soldiers were deployed, U.S. Central Command said Thursday. The U.S. military had previously maintained there were no casualties. "While no U.S. service members were killed in the Jan. ...
Children of foreign IS jihadis must be repatriated, U.N. says
UN investigators on Thursday called for thousands of children of jihadis who fought for the Islamic State group to be repatriated from Syria. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a report that the children were in a "particularly precarious" situation since they ...
U.S. and Iraq resume joint military ops after Soleimani killiing
The United States on Wednesday resumed joint military operations with Iraq that had been put on pause after the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, The New York Times reported. Two U.S. military officials quoted by the paper said the ...
French summit aims to boost counterterror fight in West Africa
French and West African heads of states paid tribute Monday to French soldiers killed in Mali, in a symbolic ceremony ahead of a summit aimed at fighting escalating extremist attacks in Africa's Sahel region. Leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Mauritania have joined ...
NATO critic Trump now floats expanding group to include Middle East
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he supported expanding the North American Treaty Organization to include Middle Eastern nations, as the United States seeks to limit its troop footprint globally. "I think that NATO should be expanded and we should include the Middle East, ...
Kurds free dozens of Islamic State-linked Syrians after assurances from tribal leaders
Syria's Kurds have released 30 Syrians suspected of affiliation to the Islamic State group after guarantees from tribal leaders, a spokesman said Tuesday, adding more should be freed soon. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) hold thousands of suspected IS fighters after years of leading ...
Mike Pompeo accuses Iran of undermining Afghanistan peace efforts
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused Iran of working to thwart efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan, but he offered no specific details to support his allegation. Pompeo leveled his charge amid an escalating crisis with Iran following a U.S. drone strike ...
Germany moved 35 soldiers serving in Iraq to neighboring Jordan and Kuwait on Tuesday, while NATO said it was also shifting some of its troops out of the country amid tensions over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in an airstrike in ...
Push to oust U.S. troops from Iraq risks leading to Islamic State resurgence
A push led by pro-Iran factions to oust U.S. troops from Iraq following the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general is gaining momentum, bolstered by a Parliament vote calling on the government to remove them. But the path forward is unclear, and in ...
