Mixed Messages From U.S. as Turkey Attacks Syrian Kurds The White House sent out a message aimed at mollifying Turkey’s president on Tuesday, suggesting that the United States was easing off its support for the Syrian Kurds. That message was quickly contradicted by the Pentagon, which said it would continue […]
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
As Turkey Attacks Kurds in Syria, U.S. Is on the Sideline When President Trump met with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the United Nations last September, he embraced him as a friend and declared, “We’re as close as we’ve ever been.” Five months later, Turkey is waging an all-out […]
U.S. Airstrike Kills More Than 100 Qaeda Fighters in Syria U.S. Airstrike Kills More Than 100 Qaeda Fighters in Syria:- As the clock wound down on Barack Obama’s presidency, an Air Force B-52 bomber carried out a punishing airstrike against a training camp of Al Qaeda in Syria, the Pentagon […]
Israel Defense Forces Kill 4 ISIS-Linked Attackers in Golan Heights JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said it killed four militants linked to the Islamic State on Sunday after they attacked Israeli forces in the Golan Heights. The confrontation appeared to be the first of its kind between Israel and Islamic […]
ISIS Bomb Aimed at Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq Kills at Least 80 ERBIL, Iraq — At least 80 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims on their way home to Iran, were killed on Thursday when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives at a roadside service […]
