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British foreign fighter faces Turkish jail time for fighting against ISIS

Ankara, Turkey—A British national faces jail time in a Turkish prison because he fought with the Kurdish Peshmerga against ISIS. Last year, Joe Robinson was arrested while enjoying a respite in a Turkish beach resort. At the time, the Turkish authorities used his association with the YPG, a Kurdish militant group that fights ISIS in […]

ISIS close to tactical defeat?

London, Great Britain—The Islamic State (ISIS) is going through its final days, according to Major General Felix Gedney, the Deputy Commander of the allied coalition. Great Britain has been part of the Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led international coalition, since 2014. Operation Shader, the UK component, initially began as a humanitarian aid operation. Quickly, however, […]

Iraq acknowledges US military draw down

Now that the Islamic State has been eliminated in its conventional form and the cities of Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq have been liberated from their control, the United States Military has begun decreasing their presence on the ground. The Iraqi government officially declared victory over the Islamic State in December and has confirmed the […]

Middle East Sitrep 12/31/17

The current situation in the Middle East is really not all that different from before the Islamic State took control of huge swaths of land. Small pockets of Islamic State resistance are still in existence throughout the formerly occupied regions of Iraq and Syria. As such, it is inevitable that small attacks and minor combat […]

Iraqi Prime Minister declares victory over ISIS

Three years after militants from the Islamic State captured nearly a third of the nation, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared final victory over ISIS in a televised address to his nation on Saturday. Haider al-Abadi’s speech comes two days after Russia announced victory over the same terrorist organization in Syria, where their military […]

UK to end ISIS bombing campaign

London, England—The Royal Air Force’s campaign against ISIS is coming to an end. Operation Shader, which began in 2014, is set to conclude next year, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD). First to depart will be the RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon jets and GR4 Tornado fighter-bombers. RAF manned and unmanned planes have conducted around 1600 […]

Mosul’s bloodbath: ‘We killed everyone – IS, men, women, children’

The Iraqi soldier looks out across a wasteland of rubble that crumbles steeply down to the banks of the Tigris, and contemplates the last days of savage fighting against the Islamic State group. “We killed them all,” he says quietly. “Daesh, men, women and children. We killed everyone.” What remains of this part of Mosul’s […]

Banner in Raqqa unveiled by victorious SDF depicts controversial PKK leader

Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberating Raqqa within the last week were photographed in front of a banner featuring the image of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, a Kurdish leader who has been identified as a terrorist by both the United States and Turkey. Ocalan is recognized as the founder of the PKK, […]

Tal Afar liberated, city basically destroyed

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over Islamic State militants in Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh on Thursday. Tal Afar became the next target of the US-backed war against IS following the recapture of Mosul, where it had declared its “caliphate” over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. Mosul is […]

Mosul Liberation to Be Announced Soon Says Iraq’s Prime Minister

The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said in a few days, there will be an announcement that the “liberation” of the city of Mosul has been achieved from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL – also known as ISIS). Abadi spoke to the media on Thursday, and his statements were carried […]