February 2019

Extremist fighters made a desperate last stand in eastern Syria on Wednesday, while their wives and children fled the final, blood-soaked implosion of the Daesh group's "caliphate". The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday…

Jihadist fighters made a desperate last stand in eastern Syria yesterday, while their wives and children fled the final, blood-soaked implosion of their “caliphate”. The Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday launched a final push to expel IS…

The ferocious battle for the city of Baghouz, the Islamic State’s last bastion in eastern Syria, enters its fifth day as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare final push to retake it. Near Baghouz – The…

THE ferocious battle for the Islamic State group’s last bastion in eastern Syria entered its fifth day on Wednesday, as exhausted families left the ever-shrinking scrap of land where holdout jihadists have been boxed in by Kurdish-led…

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, many of them foreigners, surrendered to U.S.-backed fighters in eastern Syria on Wednesday, bringing the Kurdish-led force closer to taking full control of the last remaining area…

Islamic State group militants, many of them foreigners, surrendered to U.S.-backed fighters in eastern Syria on Wednesday, bringing the Kurdish-led force closer to taking full control of the last remaining area controlled by the extremists,…

A British commander in the US-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State said in a statement released on Thursday that, although the militant group is almost territorially defeated, this does not mean that military operations against them…

Islamic State is on its last legs in Eastern Syria where the extremist group is the target of an onslaught in its last bastion in the energy-rich area, a war monitor reported on Thursday. On Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a…

Islamic State is on its last legs in eastern Syria where the extremist group is the target of an onslaught in its last bastion in the energy-rich area, a war monitor reports. On Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led…

The US should not abandon Syrian Kurdish-led forces who led the fight against ISIS, British officials have said, warning a rapid withdrawal of its troops would risk a resurgence of the jihadists. Western-backed Kurdish-led Syrian…