December 9, 2024 US strikes ISIS in Syria as Assad regime falls “The future here will be written by Syrians,” a White House official told reporters. Patrick Tucker December 8, 2024 The D Brief: Ceasefire pact in Lebanon; US strike in Syria; New SecNav tapped; Space execs’ pleas to...
not enough for fridges and freezers. female remains excavated from the al-fukheikha mass grave site in raqqa, syria. her cloak may suggest that she was a member of isis, but isis had forced the citizens of the cities it captured to wear black islamic clothes. andrea dicenzo perhaps later...
Last month, U.S.-backed forces captured Raqqa, a victory that was heralded as a turning point in the fight against ISIS. But Alhamza called for sustained efforts to thwart ISIS’ recruiting, arguing that force alone is insufficient.
During his speech, Trump held up two maps of Syria — one covered in red representing territory held by the militant group when he was elected president in November 2016 and the other that had only a speck of red. "When I took over, it was a mess. They were all over the place — ...
ISIS sleeper cells still carry out deadly attacks in parts of Syria despite the group's defeat in 2019. Aug 11, 2023 ISIS leader killed by airstrike in Syria, U.S. Central Command says The deadly drone strike was carried out the same day and by a drone that the Defense Department ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday that a leader of the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed in a U.S. "precision airstrike" in Syria on Thursday. "On Dec. 19, U.S. Central Command Forces conducted a preci...
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....
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...
In 2013, Ismail al-Hamed, a Syrian doctor and resistance leader, was kidnapped by a group of armed men in Raqqa, the city in northeast Syria that soon would become the headquarters of the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State (ISIS). Al-Hamed’s kidnapping was one of thousands tha...
The documents, which were first reported by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the country's public broadcasters NDR and WDR, Zaman Al Wasl, an independent news website focused on Syria, and Britain's Sky News, consist of a cache of questionnaires filled out by the fighters. It inclu...