America’s ill-fated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan gave the U.S. armed forces more than two decades of vital counterterrorism ...

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ISIS-K is too radical for the Taliban, experts say, and is pulling new recruits from disaffected youth in Afghanistan and ...

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Is it near defeat? Not even close. Turning Aleppo and U.S. credibility to dust, the Assad-Putin-Khamenei axis rumbles on. And ISIS is a prime benefactor of the killing. In cleansing eastern Syria ...

MACER Gifford watched as bloodied ISIS terrorists limped out of the bombed-out city of Raqqa and into the Syrian desert, broken and defeated. After three years of brutal street fighting against ...

The U.S. began airstrikes in Syria in 2014, and ground troops moved in the following year to battle the Islamic State, or ISIS, and train Syrian rebels in a country torn apart by civil war.

The terror threat from Afghanistan is intensifying as jihadis in the war-torn nation are the "most capable" of plotting atrocities, US intelligence has revealed. ISIS ...

Orhan Qamislo was a Kurdish fighter for the People’s Protection Forces, who helped the Americans defeat the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS and Daesh, in Manbij, which is both a city and ...

An Alberta judge has ordered two Edmonton women captured in Syria during the defeat of the Islamic State to take part in a ...