Iraq

BBC brings you footage of the pilots that are fighting to rid Fallujah of ISIS. Fallujah has been a major stronghold of ISIS in Iraq and the loss of this territory will be significant in the war on ISIS in Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDIC8xl0RdM Image courtesy of Reuters

Daesh used more than 30 car bombs in its Ramadi offensive. Many of these involved armored U.S. HMMWVs and some of the bombs were large enough to level an entire city block.

Thirty-five years after Operation Opera – the Israeli air attack that destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, retired IAF officers and Mossad agents revealed hitherto unknown details of the operation on Friday. In an expose aired on Channel 10, Col. (Ret.) Ze’ev Raz, who led the June 7, 1981 raid, said that Air Force […]

An exhausted and ill-equipped Iraqi Army faces daunting obstacles on the battlefield that will most likely delay for months a long-planned major offensive on the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, American and allied officials say. The delay is expected despite American efforts to keep Iraq’s creaky war machine on track. Although President Obama vowed to end the United […]

Abdullah has utilized his trade connections with Syria as well as known smugglers to track down the girls and bring them home.

Photos appearing to show the leader of Iran‘s powerful Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, liaising with Iraqi authorities near Baghdad have prompted speculation — and concern — over the role Iran and its proxies intend to play in driving ISIS out of Mosul and Fallujah. Soleimani’s presence in Iraq amid two major counter-ISIS offensives — in Fallujah, 30 […]

CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi forces say they are continuing to push into the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah, having secured its outskirts. Iraqi officers said Thursday that the large number of civilians in the city was slowing down the military operation, because it means fewer airstrikes can be carried out. Brig. Haider al-Obeidi […]

The level of Royal Air Force involvement over Syria has been released. The data shows 43 airstrikes, carried out by MQ-9’s, Tornado GR.4’s, and Eurofighters, since Operation Shader was extended into Syria in December 2015. If anything it helps paint a better picture of the scale of their involvement. Could they do more? It’s hard […]

The first SOF Truth focuses on the critical relevance of people and relationships, no one knows this better than the global SOF community and therefore took full advantage of this year’s opportunity to solidify their alliances with one another.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command added three names to a memorial wall outside the unit’s headquarters: Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 1st Sgt. Peter A. McKenna, Jr., and Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Q. McClintock. All were killed in combat in the last year.

Over 50,000 civilians are reportedly trapped inside ISIS-controlled Fallujah as Iraqi forces surround the town and prepare for an all-out assault on one of the militant’s last major strongholds in the country. Al Jazeera reported that conditions in the city, under ISIS control since 2014, have deteriorated as fighting between the militants and Iraqi forces has intensified […]

Now he has now been captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq, according to a pro-Kurdish Facebook page. His fate remains unclear – but is likely to be grim considering the number of female fighters in Kurd militias.