Last August, Iraq made a formal request to the Security Council to help collect evidence to prosecute ISIS militants for possible war crimes.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to impose harsh sanctions on Iraq after the war-torn country's parliament passed a resolution urging the government to expel foreign troops. "If they do ask us to leave, if we don't do it in a very frie...
"It is vital that Turkey and all partners in the effort to defeat ISIS coordinate their actions as closely as possible as we work together to maintain pressure to destroy ISIS on the battlefield," the spokesman said. The PKK, which wages a separatist war against Turkey since 1984, is liste...
"We will continue our work with the Global Coalition to deny ISIS safe haven anywhere in the world," Shanahan said in a statement. Declaring victory over the IS, Trump announced in December the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, leading to the resignation of then Secretary of Defense J...
Following Shanahan's statement, Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement that the U.S. military remains committed to working closely with its coalition and regional partners to "ensure the lasting defeat of ISIS." ...