This is a result of their surrender in 2019 when they surrendered to the US-backed SDF and ended up in prisons.

To defeat ISIS, the president needs to dispatch more aircraft, military advisors, and special operations forces, while loosening the restrictions under which they operate. The president also needs ...

The Pentagon said that the drawdown, which will cut the U.S. military presence in Syria by half, comes after recent gains ...

The Trump administration's withdrawal of troops from Syria shifts some responsibility for countering ISIS to its partners and ...

But the battle for Mosul continues. Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces have entered the city, and the battle has intensified with ISIS militants staging new attacks as they cling to ...

Aside from ISIS' "caliph," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ... his unit received some degree of training from American special-forces units. "He was a perfect soldier from his first days, and everyone ...

CENTCOM Is Striking ISIS—Directly and Through Allies ... conventional and special operations forces remain active in tracking, detecting, and taking out terrorist threats in the Middle East ...

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the Pentagon announced in early December the deployment of 100 to 150 U.S. special forces to conduct raids against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. “Definitely, we want to eliminate him,” says one ...