March 2019

Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raised their yellow banner on Saturday from a shell-pocked house where militants once flew the notorious black flag of Daesh. Around it stretched a field pitted by trenches and bomb craters and…

Governments greeted the fall of Islamic State's last bastion, marking the end of its self-declared "caliphate", as a "milestone" Saturday, but warned of remaining dangers, as Syrian Kurds announced a "new phase" in the conflict. France …

ISIS’s territorial defeat now begins a new phase in operations against the extremist group, which will target sleeper cells, according to a top Syrian Kurdish Commander. Speaking at a press conference held on Saturday following ISIS’s…

More than 630 civilians were killed in the six-month operation against Daesh (ISIS) that culminated in its defeat by US-backed Syrian forces Saturday, a monitor said. The civilian dead -- among them relatives of Daesh fighters -- included…

U.S. President Donald Trump declared the end of the Islamic State terror group's self-declared caliphate Friday, saying the terror group had been "100 percent defeated" — a claim that was quickly refuted by U.S.-backed forces on the ground.…

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) uncovered a large cave north of the town of al-Baghuz al-Fawqani, where more than 300 ISIS fighters were hiding, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on March 22. According to…

US-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday to flush out holdout jihadists from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate". Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front…

US-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday (Mar 22) to flush out holdout militants from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate". Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on…

US-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday to flush out holdout jihadists from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate". Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front…

US-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday to flush out holdout militants from the last sliver of their crumbling “caliphate.” Friday’s bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front…