U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria Saturday and Sunday have killed at least 23 Islamic State militants and wounded others. In a statement issued early Sunday, the coalition said the airstrikes targeted structures and transit routes used by the IS group in and around Raqqa. Coalition spokesman Lt. Col. Thomas Gilleran says the airstrikes, which […]
Five days after ISIL forces took the Iraqi city of Ramadi, which the U.S, military called nothing more than the ebb and flow of a “complex, bloody fight,” and said ISIL was on the defensive, ISIL forces have now wrested control of the major city of Palmyra from Syrian forces. This most recent victory by the ISIL […]
Investigators continue to comb through Twitter and othe social media as well as the electronic devices of the two men, 31-year-old Elton Simpson and 34-year-old Nadir Soofi, who attacked the Curtis Culwell Center on Sunday in an effort to ascertain what, if any, connections the two men and the Islamic State had. Simpson used his Twitter […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S.-led coalition is “on the road” to degrading and destroying the Islamic State (IS) group. President Obama’s special envoy for the coalition, retired Marine General John Allen, said he expects a major Iraqi-led counter-offensive against the IS group in coming weeks. Kerry described to U.S. television viewers […]