March 2019

Holdout Islamic State group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces looked to expel them from the last scrap of their dying "caliphate". Thousands of men and women have poured out of the…

As debate continues over how Western countries should deal with citizens who have gone abroad to join ISIS, Iraqi President Barham Salih says foreigners tried in Iraq for fighting with the militant group could be handed death sentences.…

Turkish and Russian patrols will begin in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region on Friday as part of a deal agreed last year, Turkey’s defence minister said. The jihadist-controlled Idlib province has been protected from a major offensive by…

Thousands of people could still be left inside Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said, as the waves of evacuations from the tiny area continued on Thursday (Mar 7). The SDF has said…

Holdout Islamic State group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces looked to expel them from the last shred of their dying "caliphate". Thousands of men and women have poured out of the…

Holdout Islamic State group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces pressed to expel them from the last scrap of their dying “caliphate”. Thousands of men and women have poured out of the…

Following a week-long lull to allow civilians and Islamic State (ISIS) extremists to surrender to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Baghouz, the fighters backed by the US-led international coalition will restart their operation on…

Holdout Islamic State group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in eastern Syria Friday as US-backed forces pressed to expel them from the last scrap of their dying ‘caliphate’. Thousands of men, women and children have poured out…

Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. A spokesman for the US-backed Syrian forces fighting the ISIS group…

Defiant Islamic State (IS) group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz on Friday as US-backed forces prepared to expel them from the last scrap of their vanishing "caliphate". The US-backed …