January 10, 2023 Today's D Brief: Kyiv, Moscow dig in for long fight; Russia salvaging old missiles; House GOP natsec forecast; US attack ISIS in Syria; And a bit more. Ben Watson and Jennifer Hlad December 12, 2022 Today's D Brief: More strikes inside Russia; Pentagon altered HIMARS...
But Al-Madioum is one of the relatively few Americans who have been brought back to the U.S. who actually fought for the group. According to a defense sentencing memo, he's one of 11 adults as of 2023 to be formally repatriated to the U.S. from the conflict in Syria and Iraq to...
The immigration tribunal held a hearing in November on Begum's appeal. The case threw into sharp relief thelarger question of how Western societies dealwith people who joined ISIS but want to go back to their home countries. Many remain in camps in northeast Syria. Begum fled east London wi...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian government soldiers gather at the entrance of Palmyra, central Syria, Thursday, March 24, 2016. Credit: SANA via AP The Observatory, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network of activists on the ground, said I...
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) –Iraqi forces announced on Wednesday the killing of a number of Islamic State (ISIS) militants after targeting a hideout of them in Kirkuk, north of the country. War Media Cell tweeted that F-16 destroyed a hideout of the “terrorists” in Kirkuk, resulting...
U.S. forces killed an "ISIS senior leader" in a strike in northwest Syria on Monday, according to U.S. Central Command.
A U.S. soldier has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after seeking to support an ISIS attack that intended to kill American soldiers in the Middle East. Cole Bridges, also known as Cole Gonzales, pled guilty to terrorism charges in 2023. His prison s
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Foley’s family members, colleagues and prison cell mates vividly recount his 2011 imprisonment in Libya, his difficulty reacclimating to home life in sleepy New England after his release, before leaving again for Syria and enduring imprisonment by ISIS. Advertisement See the most-read stories i...
ISIS militants are believed to have kidnapped more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls as they overran the Sinjar mountains in northern Iraq in 2014. Many were sold as sex slaves and then sold or traded between the terrorists during their years in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria....