Islamic State

IDF forces relayed their experience in combating regional terrorism threats to the US forces.

For nearly a decade, anyone driving through one of Baghdad’s many checkpoints was subjected to a search by a soldier pointing a security wand at their vehicle and watching the device intently to see if its antenna moved. If it pointed at the car, it had supposedly detected a possible bomb. The wands were completely […]

The imminent threat warning comes within weeks of multiple terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia toward the end of Ramadan.

For months, the Iraqi government has been preparing to launch an offensive to recapture the country’s second largest city, Mosul, from the Islamic State. Now, there are clear signs that the militants believe it is imminent. The extremist group’s fighters have sent their wives and children to Syria and Turkey, pulled their black flags from buildings to hide potential […]

A room where children are instructed to create, wired adult-human-sized silhouettes that act as false positives aerial infrared scans.

Forward Deployed Advise and Assist soldiers from 101st Airborne Division Fire on Daesh positions from Kara Soar Base, Iraq, during operations in support of the Iraqi Army.

The concept of the CNAS report is eerily similar to the plot of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American, in which the undercover CIA agent Alden Pyle is seeking to create a pro-American “Third Force” in Vietnam that will be an alternative to communism and colonialism.

An American volunteer with the Kurdish Peshmerga caught a Squirtle near Mosul, Iraq and subsequently challenged Daesh (ISIS) to a Pokémon battle.

The Mahdi Army was disbanded in 2008, replaced by the Peace Brigades, which helped push back Daesh from near Baghdad in 2014 under a government-run umbrella, and maintains a presence in the capital and several other cities.

There are thought to be a total of 180 B61 bombs in Europe, in Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands as well as Turkey. The tactical weapons are legacies of the cold war and largely seen as militarily obsolete. However, in the absence of a NATO consensus on removing them, they remain in place as tokens of US commitment to Europe’s defense.

US Air Force fighter pilots, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, spoke about the precision capabilities the air coalition is employing, and the strategic targets, that are diminishing enemy resources

Five people have been in arrested in France in connection with a lorry attack that killed at least 84 people in the city of Nice, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the carnage on the country’s main national holiday. The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday that police had arrested […]