Shooter who killed U.S. military personnel in Syria believed to be ISIS infiltrator working with security forces, multiple sources say

The shooting happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra on Saturday. President Trump and U.S. military officials attributed the attack to ISIS.
Rudaw

Iraq repatriates 240 ISIS-linked families from Syria’s al-Hol camp

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq on Monday repatriated 240 Iraqi families suspected of having links to the Islamic State (ISIS) from the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, according to a war watchdog.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that 240 families - a total of 858
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US forces in Iraq part of second raid on ISIS militants as 2 injured troops from earlier attack transported to Walter Reed

WASHINGTON — U.S. forces on Thursday participated in a second Iraqi-led raid this week on ISIS fighters as two American service members injured in the earlier attack are moved to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.
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US and Iraqi forces kill ISIS chief of global operations, officials say

US forces working with Iraqi intelligence and security services killed a high-profile leader of the Islamic State in an airstrike in western Iraq, according to officials from the two countries. Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah,’ was ...
Rudaw

President Barzani meets Paris representative as anti-ISIS forces shift to Kurdistan

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Sunday met with Paris’s top representative to the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) to discuss the ongoing terrorist threat in the region and the coalition’s role in Iraq.
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OIG Report: 20,000 ISIS Terrorists in Iraq and Syria; Fight Is ‘Years, If Not Decades’ from Over

At an undisclosed location in Iraq, an AH-64 Apache helicopter provides close-air support for a resupply convoy in support of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve on Nov. 27, 2017. (Marine Corps photo by Capt. Christian Lopez) There are an ...
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ISIS leader killed in Iraq was head of extremist group’s global operations

Iraq's security forces and the US-led coalition fighting ISIS have killed the leader of the militant group in Iraq and Syria, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani said on Friday. Abdullah Al Rifai, also known as Abu Khadija, was “considered one ...
ABC News

In Iraq, scars of ISIS linger on surviving families trying to find stability

Victory over ISIS was declared in Iraq in 2017 but their terror still echoes. For the Moussa family, the thought of home is now a painful memory. “All of it is ...
Rudaw

Suspected ISIS militants kill village chieftain in Iraq's Salahaddin

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militants attacked the home of a village chieftain in Salahaddin province late Thursday, killing him, a local official told Rudaw.The victim was identified as Fakhri al-Abbasi,
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