Category: ISIS

Iraqi Kurdish fighters are exchanging heavy fighters with militants as they advance from two directions on a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul. (FOX)- The town of Bashiqa has been surrounded by Kurdish forces known as peshmerga for weeks. Monday’s push appears to be the most serious yet […]

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian forces announced the start of a plan Sunday to retake the Islamic State terror group’s de facto capital of Raqqa — an operation they called “Euphrates Rage.” (FOX)- The announcement by the Syria Democratic Forces, a coalition of Kurdish, Arab and Christian forces, was made Sunday at a news conference in Ein […]

Iraq’s special forces worked Sunday to fully clear neighborhoods on Mosul’s eastern edge of Islamic State (ISIS) militants as suspected ISIS bombings killed at least 20 people elsewhere around the country. (FOX)- The current phase and slower pace highlight the challenges ahead for Iraqi forces as they press into more populated areas deeper inside Mosul […]

The SITE Intelligence Group reports that the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Diyarbakir, Turkey, that left nine people dead. (FOX)- The U.S.-based SITE, which tracks the online activity of extremist organizations, said Friday that IS made the claim through its Amaq news agency. Turkish authorities blamed Friday’s attack, […]

Iraqi special forces cleared buildings on Saturday in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out Islamic State militants in their drive to take back the city. (FOX)- Fighting continued in the morning, with both sides firing mortars and automatic weapons on each other’s positions, while the Iraqi troops also responded […]

Wave upon wave of refugees from towns where the fighting has been intense arriving at a new refugee camp outside Irbil in northern Iraq.    In war, there are always more casualties than just those fighting on either side. War effects everyone in the area it is occuring and Mosul is no exception. People just […]

A federal grand jury on Wednesday night indicted a Virginia man on terror charges after investigators said he joined, then quit, the Islamic State. (FOX)- Mohamad Khweis faced charges including providing material support to ISIS. Kurdish Peshmarga fighters in northern Iraq captured the 26-year-old in March before he was extradited to the U.S. He was […]

As bullets fly in Mosul, the rural roads leading west are choked with traffic – much of which is believed to be ISIS fighters fleeing to the terrorist army’s Syrian stronghold some 275 miles away in Raqqa. (FOX)- On a late morning this week, FoxNews.com observed through binoculars and from atop Shengal Mountain, also known […]

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers on Thursday there could be no retreat in a “total war” against the forces arrayed against them, as advancing soldiers battled the militants inside their northern Iraqi stronghold. (Reuters)- Expressing confidence that his Islamic State fighters would prevail against Shi’ite Islam, Western “crusaders” and the Sunni […]

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces moved closer on Wednesday to a town south of Mosul where aid groups and regional officials say Islamic State has executed dozens of prisoners. (Reuters)- A military statement said security forces advanced to the edge of Hammam al-Alil, a thermal water resort, after an elite unit breached the eastern limits of Mosul, […]