ISIS

ISIS has declared a new “global offensive” against Europe and Israel while the rest of the world is distracted by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

President Biden confirms that ISIS leader al-Qurayshi was killed in a US Special Operations forces mission in Idlib, northwest Syria.

From Russia to China and even TikTok subverting law and order in public schools, this is the SOFREP week in review.

The Takuba Special Operations Task Force, comprised of French Special Operations troops has killed a key leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) for his part in the murders of six civilian aid workers and two guides in Niger in 2020.

Israeli F-16s bomb Syria’s largest airport leaving three perfectly spaced craters 600 meters apart on the runway. This is the latest in a series of attacks by Israel on the Iranian presence within Syria.

The U.S. military intercepted and shot down a small drone that was believed to be threatening a U.S. base in southern Syria Tuesday, just weeks after the same base was attacked by drones and rocket fire. It is believed to have been launched by Iranian proxy militias in the region.  Capt. Bill Urban, the spokesman […]

Syrian state media claims that Syrian Democratic Forces led by U.S. troops killed civilians and took hostages during a large airborne operation in al-Busayrah, Syria that was aimed at killing or capturing a known ISIS member.

After nine years, French forces will be leaving the troubled nation of Mali where Islamist terrorists attempted to gain a foothold. France is saying that its presence there is not totally ended but will take on a different posture, presumably in the form of military advisors and other military assistance.

The 2,500 U.S. troops still in Iraq are being renamed “advisors” in a move that even the Pentagon admits is just a change in mission and not one in posture or numbers, saying, “There won’t be a dramatic shift from yesterday to tomorrow.”

“It is not like the Syrian government are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.”

The Taliban are either incapable of controlling their rank-and-file troops or never intended to abide by the amnesty assurances they had given.

“The violent extremism that attacked us on 9/11 is still there. We can never forget that,” Clarke said.