25/02/2019

U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are set to capture the Islamic State group’s last enclave, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of defeat as U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of “100 percent…

US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat as US President Donald Trump…

Syrian government bombardment in towns and villages across southern Idlib over the last two days has killed at least eight children, a war monitor said. Civilians and monitoring groups told Middle East Eye that hundreds of artillery shells…

From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries' shared border. In that tiny patch on the banks of the Euphrates River,…

From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, ISIL has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries’ shared border. In that tiny territory on the banks of the Euphrates river, hundreds of…

The sound of mortar shelling and fighter jets whizzing by filled the air. At the base in this small village, fighters from the U.S.- backed Syrian Democratic Forces coordinate with their comrades about two kilometers (1.2 miles) away who…

US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat as US President Donald Trump…

US-backed fighters in Syria were poised to capture the Islamic State (IS) group’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates River, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat as US…

JIHADIST fighters defending the last dregs of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate” on Saturday were holed up in half a square kilometre of a village in eastern Syria. US President Donald Trump had announced that the fall of the IS…

More than 300 Islamic State militants surrounded in a tiny area in eastern Syria are refusing to surrender to U.S.-backed forces and are trying to negotiate an exit, Syrian activists and a person close to the negotiations said Monday. The…