Unfortunately, despite all our progress against [Daesh] on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly.
“The Apache strike destroyed a Daesh vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) near Qayyarah, Iraq,” he added. Qayyarah is south of Mosul, the Daesh’s main stronghold in Iraq.
Dozens of Iraqi government forces and militia members have been killed in an attack on military barracks east of Fallujah by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Military sources said 50 members of the Iraqi security forces and allied Shia militias were killed on Saturday. ISIL losses were reported too, with sources […]
A tweet threatening Brazil sent in November by Maxime Hauchard, a French national identified as an executioner in Islamic State propaganda videos, was genuine.
The tweet read: ‘Brazil, you are our next target.’
After the fighting we head in to search buildings for any valuable resources that we turn over to the Peshmerga. After we complete our SSE (Search and Seizure of Equipment) our team exfils through an alternate route that is occupied by Hastalshabi forces (Shia militia), we were an unwelcome presence to them for sure. Image courtesy […]
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.
On the first day we make our way through several small villages to stage just outside the city. At first light we begin our push under mortar fire; Daesh sends a VBIED in from Hawija to stop our progression but to no avail. Image courtesy of Getty
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.
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.
The ground force, under SDF and YPG Command, has sent forth approximately 25,000 Kurdish and Syrian guerilla fighters.
Dozens of Russian military vehicles and attack helicopters deployed to Syria may have have been destroyed in an apparent attack by Isil. Images released on Tuesday by Stratfor, the American intelligence think tank, show what appear to be the blackened remains of four attack helicopters and dozens of lorries at an airbase used by Russia near […]
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