Posts Tagged: ISIS fighters
US Says Just a Few Hundred ISIS Fighters Left in Syria Battle
Islamic State is down to its last few hundred fighters and less than a square kilometer of land in a battle for its final Syrian...
Islamic State Makes Comeback in Iraq With Switch to Guerrilla Tactics
Months after Iraq declared victory over Islamic State, its fighters are making a comeback with a scatter-gun campaign of kidnap and killing. With its dream of...
Monitor: Islamic State Takes Damascus Area After Rebels Pull Out
Islamic State fighters holding a small district in Damascus have gained some ground after driving out Syrian army units that moved into a neighboring area that rebels abandoned last week, a war monitor said. In fighting that lasted...
Report: Thousands of ISIS Fighters Surrendering in Iraq
The prisoners were taken to a waiting room in groups of four, and were told to stand facing the concrete wall, their noses almost touching...
Many Foreign Fighters Abandon ISIS, Surrender at Turkish Border
Large numbers of foreign fighters and sympathizers are abandoning Islamic State and trying to enter Turkey, with at least two British nationals and a US...
Report: Plummet in Flow of Foreign Fighters as ISIS Loses Ground
The flow of foreign fighters to the ranks of the Islamic State — once a mighty current of thousands of radicalized men and women converging...
US Obtains Trove of New Intelligence on ISIS Fighters
The United States is poring over a vast trove of new intelligence about Islamic State fighters who have flowed into Syria and Iraq and some who...
ISIS Executes 175 of 300 Kidnapped Cement Workers Outside Damascus, Syrian Military Says
ISIS fighters have reportedly executed 175 of the 300 kidnapped cement workers outside the Syrian capital Damascus, according to the Syrian state's military. Extremists seized the...
American ISIS Fighter Surrenders, Regrets Joining Terror Group: ‘I Wasn’t Thinking Straight’
A Virginia man who joined ISIS and surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters earlier this week has expressed regret for entering the terror group's self-proclaimed caliphate,...
Iraqi Military Says It Has ‘Liberated’ Central City of Ramadi From Islamic State
The Iraqi city of Ramadi has been "liberated" from so-called Islamic State, the Iraqi military has declared. Spokesman Brig Gen Yahya Rasul said forces had achieved...
ISIS Mounts ‘Serious’ Offensive in Northern Iraq, US Officials Say
Islamic State fighters conducted their most significant military operation in northern Iraq in more than five months when they mounted a three-pronged attack on Wednesday night north and east...
Sydney Police Receive Letter Threatening to Kill Jews, With ISIS Photo of Severed Heads
Counter-terrorism officials are investigating a letter sent to a police station in Sydney, Australia, issuing threats against Jewish schools and others, the U.K.'S Daily Mail reported...
Over 90 People Executed by ISIS in Syria in Past Month, Activist Group Says
ISIS has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, an...
Report: ISIS Establishing Stronghold in Europe, Buying Land in Isolated Village
Islamic State have established a stronghold in mainland Europe, a Sunday Mirror investigation reveals. Terrorists are secretly buying land in an isolated village, surrounded by deep...
