Posts Tagged: ISIS Syria
62,000 Uprooted in Islamic State Battle Crowd Syria Displacement Camp: UN
More than 62,000 people uprooted by fighting around Islamic State's last pocket in Syria have flooded al-Hol displacement camp in Syria, with 5,200 arriving between...
Report: Syrian Army Attacks Islamic State Targets in Desert
The Syrian military has mounted air strikes against Islamic State militants and clashed with the jihadists in central Syria, the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper reported on...
Syria Fighters Say ISIS Still Holds Civilians, Slowing Attack
US-backed fighters have slowed an offensive to take Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria because a small number of civilians remain there, though fierce...
Trump Says All Islamic State Territory Retaken, Contradicting Allied Commander
President Donald Trump told American troops on Thursday that US-backed forces in Syria have retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by Islamic State...
Syria Kurds Evacuate Civilians From Islamic State Redoubt, Hail Trump Troop Reversal
Kurdish-led forces in Syria said they would complete the evacuation of thousands of civilians from Islamic State's last redoubt in the area on Friday, and...
Islamic State on Brink of Defeat in Syria Enclave
Remaining civilians are expected to be evacuated from Islamic State's final enclave in eastern Syria on Thursday, US-backed forces said, clearing the way for them...
SDF: Islamic State Steps Up Guerrilla Attacks in Syria
Islamic State has stepped up guerrilla attacks against US-backed fighters in eastern Syria, pointing to the threat the jihadists will pose even after they lose...
US-Backed Force Won’t Release Jihadists, but Says Countries Must Take Them Back
Kurdish-led authorities in north Syria said on Monday they would not free foreign Islamic State detainees but countries must repatriate them, after US President Donald...
US Coalition: Slow Progress in Islamic State Syria Pocket
Kurdish-led fighters battling to capture Islamic State's last major stronghold in Syria are making "slow and methodical" progress, the US-led coalition that backs them said...
Contradicting Trump, Merkel Says Islamic State Not Defeated
Islamic State is far from defeated, and instead is morphing into an asymmetrical warfare force after the militant group lost almost all of the territory...
US Calls on Countries to Take Islamic State Prisoners From Syria
The US State Department on Monday called on countries to take in foreign fighters captured by America's Kurdish allies in Syria, two days ahead of...
Islamic State Pinned in Tiny Eastern Syria Enclave With Families, US-Backed Force Says
Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria are pinned down in a final tiny pocket with their wives and children, forcing a US-backed militia to slow...
Hours After US Troops Killed in Syria, Pence Says Islamic State Defeated
Islamic State has been defeated in Syria, US Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday, hours after Americans were killed in a northern Syria bomb...
US-Backed Syrian Force: Islamic State in Its ‘Final Moments’
Islamic State militants are "living their final moments" in the last enclave they hold near the Iraqi border, where US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are...
