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Book excerpt: ‘The Daughters of Kobani’
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won.
By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
American troops at Syria base say they’ll keep pressure on ISIS
At a base in eastern Syria, a senior U.S. coalition commander said Monday that American troops who remain in Syria are redeploying to bases, including in some new locations, and working with the Kurdish-led forces to keep up the pressure on the Islamic State militants and prevent the extremists from resurging or breaking out of prisons.
Turkish military move into Syria is high risk
Turkey’s combative president is threatening to launch a military operation in northeastern Syria that is designed to push back U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces — an invasion that carries major risks for a highly combustible region in war-devastated Syria.
US officials say Islamic State still poses global threat
The Islamic State remains a global threat despite losing the once vast territory it held in Syria and Iraq, U.S. officials said Thursday in warning about persistent violence from underground cells and an expansion of militants into new areas.
Islamic State in Afghanistan aims to attack US, general says
The Islamic State group in Afghanistan is a "very worrisome" threat to the United States, and U.S. counterterrorism efforts have yet to shrink its extremist ambitions, a senior American general said Wednesday.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Pentagon disputes British general’s assessment on Iranian threat
U.S. Central Command announced it raised the threat level in Iraq and Syria, rebuking comments made by a top British general with the coalition fighting the Islamic State.
By Kyle Rempfer
Iraqi army hunts ISIS remnants spreading fear in former ‘caliphate’
A year and a half after the Islamic State group was declared defeated in Iraq, the militants still evoke fear in the lands of their former so-called caliphate across northern Iraq.
ISIS leader Baghdadi appears in video for the first time in 5 years
The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group appeared for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group’s propaganda arm on Monday, acknowledging defeat in the group’s last stronghold in Syria but vowing a “long battle” ahead.
What motivated fellow SEALs to dime out Eddie Gallagher?
The fog of war swirls through the reams of internal files provided to Navy Times.
By Navy Times staff
Airstrikes against ISIS dwindle as caliphate crumbles
U.S.-backed forces rooted out ISIS forces from their last piece of territory, and on March 23 declared they had defeated the militant group after a devastating, nearly five-year war.
War crimes case expands to SEAL Team 6
Leaked records show investigators going after the "mean girls" in SEAL Team 6.
By Navy Times staff