September 25, 2017 Jordan, Iraq reopen border crossing, vital to trade Jordan and Iraq reopened their only border crossing Wednesday after a two-year closure, taking a step toward stabilizing an area devastated by Islamic State extremists and allowing for a resumption of vital trade.
September 25, 2017 US strikes ISIS militants heading toward evacuees The U.S.-led coalition says it has struck an Islamic State convoy coming from militant-held territory in Syria to meet IS evacuees being transferred there under a controversial deal brokered by Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group.
September 25, 2017 US drone strike on ISIS camp in Libya kills 17 militants, military says American forces on Friday conducted six precision airstrikes in Libya against an ISIS camp, killing 17 militants and destroying three vehicles, the military said in a statement.
September 21, 2017 Navy awards medal to sailor caught in ISIS fight for 10 hours The U.S. Navy awarded the Silver Star Medal to a sailor credited with bravely protecting his unit’s lives during a 10-hour fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
September 19, 2017 German teen who joined ISIS, married jihadist may face death penalty in Iraq Linda Wenzel, a German teenager, who fled her country to join ISIS’ so-called “caliphate” and marry one of the terror group’s jihadis could now face the death penalty, Iraq’s prime minister said Saturday.
September 19, 2017 ISIS convoy stuck in Syria after US airstrikes block it A convoy of ISIS militants found itself with nowhere to go after getting stuck Thursday in Syria following U.S.–led airstrikes that blocked it in.
September 19, 2017 Activists: ISIS convoy treks ahead despite US strikes threat Dozens of Islamic State group members and their families have crossed into areas controlled by the extremists despite U.S. threats to bomb the convoy days after they left the Lebanon-Syria border, Syrian opposition activists said Saturday.
September 19, 2017 Philadelphia woman who planned to join ISIS gets 8 years in jail A Philadelphia mother who investigators say planned to abandon her two children and travel to Syria to join an ISIS fighter she met online was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday.
September 19, 2017 US pulls back from watching ISIS convoy at request of Russians , Pentagon says The U.S. military on Friday pulled back surveillance aircraft that had been watching an 11-bus ISIS convoy filled with hundreds of militants and their family members -- at the request of the Russian government.
September 18, 2017 ISIS still stealing, spilling and smuggling oil throughout Iraq Despite being recently defeated from their major strongholds of Mosul and Tel Afar in Iraq, and it being more than two years since Iraqi forces specifically sought to retake oil-rich areas from ISIS, militants belonging to the terror faction are continuing to steal, spill and smuggle crude oil from Iraqi oil fields as a means to wreak havoc and fund their spluttering but slimly surviving campaign of terror.