February 2019

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIL’s secretive leader, survived a recent coup attempt by his own men. That’s according to a Sunday report by Martin Chulov in the Guardian, which says the secretive leader known as “Caliph Ibrahim” had to fend off a…

U.S.-led coalition warplanes struck the last ISIS stronghold in eastern Syria and hundreds of civilians fled the besieged enclave Monday as U.S.-backed fighters pressed on with their campaign to seize it. Coalition jets roared overhead as…

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) snipers and landmines have slowed a US-backed ground force as it pushes to retake the armed group's last enclave in eastern Syria. Black-smoke clouds rose over ISIL's final…

Syrian fighters backed by artillery fire from a US-led coalition battled a fierce extremist counteroffensive Monday as they pushed to retake a last morsel of territory from the Daesh group. A war monitor said a coalition air strike killed…

Islamic State group militants cornered in their last foothold in eastern Syria fought back with suicide car bombs, snipers and booby traps Monday, slowing Kurdish fighters advancing under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish…

In yet another sign of the remaining ISIS presence in eastern Syria, a bomb exploded in Raqqa on Tuesday. A landmine in the al-Forosiyyeh district of Raqqa detonated overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has reported.…

Israeli army tank shelling on Monday hit the southern Syrian province of Quneitra that borders the occupied Golan Heights, state media in the war-torn country said. “The Israeli aggressor has targeted a destroyed hospital in Quneitra and…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday confirmed Israeli artillery strikes on military positions in Quneitra, an area along the Golan Heights border, on Monday. "We are working every day against Iran in Syria, including…

Islamic State group militants cornered in their last foothold in eastern Syria fought back with suicide car bombs, snipers and booby traps Monday, slowing Kurdish fighters advancing under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish…

A Syrian war monitoring group and a Kurdish news agency say fierce fighting is underway between U.S.-backed Syrian forces and Islamic State militants around the extremists' last foothold in eastern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human…