Syria

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

The commander of the Turkish navy has not been heard from since the failed coup

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.

Heval Agir, a US volunteer who joined Syrian Kurdish fighters to combat the Islamic State (ISIS), was killed in the operation to take the city of Manbij from ISIS militants. The fighter, nicknamed Heval Agir, was a former marine in his mid-20s when he joined Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria. […]

Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the head of Air Combat Command, says the F-35A may be ready for Initial Operational Capability (IOC) soon. The F-35 could enter the fight against ISIS as soon as this fall. “The minute I declare initial operational capability, if the combatant commander called me up and said, ‘We need F-35s,’ I would […]

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.

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

The United States is offering Russia a new military pact against the Islamic State and al-Qaida in Syria, according to a leaked U.S. proposal that, if finalized, could dramatically alter America’s role in the Arab country’s five-year civil war. The document, published by The Washington Post, calls for joint bombing operations, a command-and-control headquarters and […]

The United States is offering Russia a new military pact against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida in Syria, according to a leaked U.S. proposal. If finalized, the arrangement could dramatically alter America’s role in the Arab country’s five-year civil war. The document, published by The Washington Post, calls for joint bombing operations, a command-and-control […]

With the beginning of separate offensives against the Islamic State (IS) in Fallujah and Raqqa many analysts are highlighting that this is the beginning of the end of IS, with Mosul next in the sights. However, there is one key issue with this analysis; these offensives do nothing to address the structural failures in both Iraq and Syria that led […]

When the suicide bomber exploded in Taksim, they gave my name although I was a captive when the suicide bomber exploded in Taksim. The people in Kobanê allowed me to talk to my family back then.