The Pentagon said that the drawdown, which will cut the U.S. military presence in Syria by half, comes after recent gains ...

The U.S. has sent more forces to Syria, tamping down on the immediate threat, but experts warn that the extremist group could ...

The end of the Assad era has reduced some threats, but the Islamic State has shown renewed strength in the country.

The elite Canadian special unit, Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2), made history in 2017 by executing the longest confirmed sniper ...

The departure would return force levels to where they had been for years, after the U.S. and its allies waged a multiyear ...

Aside from ISIS' "caliph," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ... his unit received some degree of training from American special-forces units. "He was a perfect soldier from his first days, and everyone ...

Asharq Al Awsat Recent developments in Syria indicate that the ISIS group has reportedly made a comeback to the country after its presence has deteriorated in the past years. According to UN and US ...

America’s ill-fated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan gave the U.S. armed forces more than two decades of vital counterterrorism experience—and they continue to put this training to good use.

Kawa Hassan, an Iraqi analyst at the Washington-based Stimson Center, was blunt in his assessment: “If the Syrian Kurds are ...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces eliminated ISIS’s second-in-command Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known by his alias “Abu Khadijah,” on Thursday in western Iraq, the organization ...

The airstrike occurred southeast of Bosasso, Puntland, in Northeastern Somalia, AFRICOM said in a statement. AFRICOM’s current assessment is that the airstrike killed one ISIS terrorist and that ...

the Pentagon announced in early December the deployment of 100 to 150 U.S. special forces to conduct raids against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. “Definitely, we want to eliminate him,” says one ...