May 21, 2018 As ISIS targets disappear in Iraq and Syria, US military shifts focus back to Afghanistan As the war against the Islamic State terror group winds down in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military is increasingly turning its attention to Afghanistan.
May 17, 2018 Syria's Assad travels to Russia to meet with Putin The Kremlin says Syrian President Bashar Assad has met with President Vladimir Putin at his summer residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
May 15, 2018 'I gave the US trucks and ammunition to Al Qaeda': The chaotic US effort to arm Syrian rebels Under the Obama administration, the U.S devised two programs to provide assistance to various Free Syrian Army (FSA) opposition factions in Syria – both fraught with chaos and blunders -- that ultimately put weapons in the hands of terrorists.
May 10, 2018 Iraq captures five top ISIS suspects in cross-border raid Iraqi forces in coordination with U.S.-backed Syrian forces have captured five senior Islamic State group (ISIS) leaders, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday in a statement.
May 9, 2018 Israel targets Iranian forces in Syria after rocket attack on Golan Heights Iranian forces based in Syria fired approximately 20 rockets toward Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, triggering a retaliatory bombardment that rocked Syria's capital late into the night Wednesday.
May 7, 2018 Elusive ISIS leader al-Baghdadi believed hiding out in Syrian frontier MOSUL, Iraq - He is the most wanted man in the world - with a $25 million bounty on his head - and while ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi remains at-large, intelligence assessments across the board are pegging him as very much alive.
May 5, 2018 Iran aims to be king of the hill on key strategic mountain in Iraq At the top of this mountain where a Yazidi minoirty faced slaughter and extermination under savage ISIS occupation, there's new concern Iran is working to establish a key strategic foothold here that could literally leave Israel and regional U.S. forces in the crosshairs of potential missile attacks.
May 3, 2018 From jail, remorseful ex-ISIS fighter warns: Group will retool and return Belgium native Hamza Nmeie, 27, claims to be one of few foreign fighters to have seen the barbaric and bloody rise of ISIS in Syria, long before the group was known to the world.
May 1, 2018 ISIS fanatics turn captured Syrian soldier into missile, attach bomb to his head before tossing him ISIS butchers have carried out one of the most chilling executions in the terror group's history - by turning a captive into an airborne bomb.
April 30, 2018 Missile attack kills 26, mostly Iranians in Syria, report says An overnight missile attack in Syria's northern region has killed 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians, a Syria war monitoring group said Monday.