saying at least 19 ISIS members, including 12 foreigners, were killed. The group did not say who carried out the attack, but said it was informed that there was an airdrop that followed the airstrikes. The Observatory relies on a network of activists on the ground in Syria. ...
"Many Daesh [ISIS] and al Qaeda leaders are still alive, protected by Turkey in occupied areas of northeast and northwest Syria," the head of the SDF's media and information office, Farhad Shami, told CBS News the day after al-Qurayshi was killed. "He was protected between ...
US special operations forces have conducted a military operation in eastern Syria, targeting a senior Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) commander and his wife, the US defense secretary has announced. The terrorist leader was killed in the raid. Abu Sayyaf, a senior Islamic State leader, ...
U.S. forces killed an "ISIS senior leader" in a strike in northwest Syria on Monday, according to U.S. Central Command.
Prescott resident Kayla Mueller was 26 when she was killed in Syria in 2015, after being taken hostage by ISIS in Syria in 2013. (Photo courtesy CNN) Evidence presented at trial showed that Elsheikh and the other “Beatles” beat, threatened and tortured the hostages. Foley, Sotloff and Ka...
U.S. forces in the Middle East have killed 163 Islamic State group militants and captured another 33 in dozens of operations in Iraq and Syria since late August, U.S. Central Command said in a Monday statement. Since Aug. 29, more than 95 Defeat ISIS (D-ISIS) operations, some of whic...
Sillo and the main Kurdish militia in Syria, the YPG, said some of the ISIS fighters came from Turkey. The YPG statement said its fighters had killed the attackers after hours of fighting. The Aamaq news agency reported that ISIS fighters launched a "surprise attack" on several areas in no...
Last week, ISIS announced the death in Syria of its little-known leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi - who headed the extremist organization since November - and named his successor. He was the fourth to be killed since its founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, waskilled in 2019 by...
The US’s precision air strikes, which were conducted in former regime and Russian-controlled areas of Syria, killed 12 Isis terrorists, US Central Command said on Monday. There is an ongoing US mission “to disrupt, degrade, and defeat Isis preventing the terrorist group from conducting externa...
The girl who joined Isis in Syria aged 15 has been deprived of her British citizenship but she may have been trafficked November 4 2022 Raffaello Pantucci Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies As western counter-terrorism efforts flounder, Kremlin-backed militias are...