March 2019

"We should be clear that what we are seeing now is not the surrender of ISIS as an organization, but a calculated decision to preserve the safety of their families and preservation of their capabilities by taking their chances in camps for…

US forces have not yet been ordered to pull out of Afghanistan despite President Donald Trump's plan to end involvement there, the commander of American forces in the Middle East, said on Thursday. "We have not been directed to withdraw.…

A top US commander warned on Thursday (March 7) that the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group was "far from over" despite the militants' loss of territory, as survivors abandoned the last shred of the group's…

A top U.S. commander warned Thursday that the battle against the Islamic State group was “far from over” despite the jihadists’ loss of territory, as survivors abandoned the last shred of the group’s collapsing “caliphate” in eastern Syria.…

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

About 400 Isis fighters were captured while trying to escape the besieged town of Baghouz in eastern Syria, a senior commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the anti-Isis Kurdish-led militia, told reporters on March 6th, according…

Around 400 Islamic State jihadists fled the group’s last occupied area in Syria on Wednesday as US-backed forces continued to besiege the stronghold. The IS fighters were captured trying to escape Baghouz with smugglers, a senior Syrian…

Syria’s Democratic forces arrested 400 fighters of ISIS terrorist organization after they foiled their attempt to flee their besieged pocket in the eastern town of Al-Baghouz, a leading source said. The source of the leadership of the…

Hundreds of Daesh fighters surrendered on Wednesday and hundreds more of their jihadist comrades were caught trying to escape the hardline group's last, tiny scrap of land in eastern Syria, said a commander in the militia besieging it. …

Hundreds more people made their way on Wednesday out of Islamic State's last pocket in eastern Syria, besieged by a U.S.-backed militia that has held off a final assault to allow what it says is an unexpectedly large number of civilians to…