August 15, 2016 Russia: In talks with US over partnering to calm crisis in Aleppo, Syria Russia's defense minister said Monday that Moscow and Washington were edging closer to an agreement that would help defuse the crisis in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo -- and the State Department did not deny it.
August 15, 2016 ISIS gets know-nothing recruits and rejoices The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant.
August 15, 2016 US-backed Iraqi Kurds take back villages outside ISIS hub Mosul Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have retaken five villages east of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in an operation launched early Sunday.
August 14, 2016 Iraqi Kurds advance near ISIS-held city Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have retaken five villages east of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in an operation launched early Sunday.
August 14, 2016 ISIS losses mount with liberation of Manbij, Syria The Islamic State group's loss of the northern Syrian town of Manbij to U.S.-backed fighters marks the latest in a string of defeats for the extremists across their self-styled caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
August 13, 2016 Wild celebrations after ISIS defeated in Syrian town of Manbij On the streets of Manbij, men chanted slogans against the Islamic State (ISIS) group or clipped their beards and women walked with their faces uncovered for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, hours after the militant group was pushed out of the northern Syrian city.
August 13, 2016 US-backed fighters capture ISIS Syria stronghold; terrorists use civilians as human shields A Syrian Kurdish official says U.S.-backed fighters are now in control of a northern Syrian town that until recently was a stronghold of the Islamic State group.
August 12, 2016 ISIS leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan killed by US drone, Pentagon says The leader of the Islamic State terror group in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed by a U.S. drone last month, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ Friday.
August 12, 2016 UK teen girl who went to ISIS area of Syria reported killed One of three London schoolgirls who traveled to an area controlled by ISIS in Syria to become "jihadi brides" is believed to have been killed in an air strike, a lawyer for her family says.
August 12, 2016 British teen who decided to join Islamic State in Syria feared killed in airstrike A schoolgirl who left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria is feared to have been killed in an airstrike in the country.