"When I took office, ISIS controlled more than 20,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria -- just two years ago. Today, we have liberated virtually all of the territory from the grip of these bloodthirsty monsters," Trump said. "Now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of ...
"Each individual and entity targeted has contributed to the spread of ISIS (IS)'s terror reach in their respective corner of the world," said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in the statement. As a result of the Treasury's action, any property...
James Jeffrey, U.S. special envoy for Syria and the anti-ISIS (the Islamic State) coalition, acknowledged during a congressional hearing last week that more than 100 IS detainees had escaped in north Syria, where the Turkish military operations against the Syrian Kurdish forces took place recent...
The commander that oversees U.S. troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan added that the current military gains achieved by a U.S.-led coalition "can only be secured by maintaining a vigilant offensive against the now largely dispersed and disaggregated ISIS that retains leaders, fighters, fac...