UNITED NATIONS — Extremist group Daesh (the so-called IS) has up to 30,000 members roughly equally distributed between Syria and Iraq and its global network poses a rising threat — as does Al-Qaeda, ...

BAGHDAD — Senior US military leaders said Friday that Iraqi forces are largely set for their next major campaign against Daesh (the so-called IS) extremists after closing out the wrenching nine-month ...

RAF typhoons, alongside coalition aircrafts, carried out a major air offensive lasting ten days in March and targeted 50-100 cave complexes in the mountains. Pilots saw a number of “secondary ...

On 24 December 2025, Syrian officials claimed that they had captured a key Daesh leader near Damascus, the report, circulated to UN Security Council members on 31 January, said. The report said that ...