The Army has announced that three brigades will deploy this fall to three different theaters, underscoring that many soldiers continue to serve far away from home even though the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have ended. The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division is headed to the U.S. Central Command theater of operations, the […]
The Islamic State group carried out more attacks in the first half of 2024 in Iraq and Syria than it did in all of 2023, officials at U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday as the terror group continues to reconstitute in the region. ISIS conducted 153 attacks in the first six months of 2024 — […]
BAGHDAD – More than five years after the Islamic State group lost its last enclave of territory, U.S. troops remain deployed to Iraq and Syria to prevent ISIS from rising from its ashes. And the conditions that helped ISIS originally form are still in place in Syria, according to the U.S. commander charged with keeping […]
BAGHDAD – Two soldiers deployed to Syria jumped in to save a local man from a grisly fate after one of his arms became stuck in a running generator. The incident took place on March 24 at a U.S. military base in northeast Syria where Sgt. Lauren Shalabi and Spc. Heather Tarasewicz are both assigned. […]
BAGHDAD – The top U.S. general in Iraq and Syria said some of his most valuable leadership lessons came in his first weeks in command, fresh out of training as a young lieutenant. “I learned to be a little bit humble and ask questions that I didn’t know. I thought I was really good […]
The attack, done on coordination with the Somlia government, targeted a group of ISIS militants operating near Dhaardaar in inland Somalia.
The M72 Light Assault Weapon Fire from Enclosure Munition is designed to reduce backblast when fired from inside an enclosed space.
Mali forces say they killed Abu Huzeifa, who was known to brandish a rifle he said belonged to dead Green Berets in a 2017 ambush in Niger.
In an excerpt from “Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War,” special operators waited as Navy Chief Shannon Kent hunted an ISIS leader.
A man spotted by Marine Scout Snipers was not the suicide bomber responsible for the Aug. 26, 2021 Abbey Gate attack, investigators found.
An Idaho man appeared in court Wednesday on charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group known as ISIS.
The ISIS terrorist attack in Moscow proves the group is still a threat with branches in Central Asia and Africa, a Pentagon official said.
Even though US troops are putting out fires all around the world, NORAD says it has the resources to support Santa Claus this Christmas.
The US military carried out 40 missions against ISIS in November despite constant attacks from Iranian proxies.
The US has conducted more missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria than in all of 2022. Fewer suspected ISIS fighters have been killed.
A new New York Times report outlines how repeated exposure to artillery shockwaves left troops hallucinating, panicking and struggling.
The Army reinstated a medal for troops serving in Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, a long-standing mission to battle ISIS.
A total of 19 US troops in Iraq and Syria have been diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury following separate drone attacks on Oct. 17 and 18.
US troops captured two ISIS leaders in separate raids carried out in northern Syria on Sept. 23 and Sept. 28.
The US military is flying aircraft from its two bases in Niger to protect the roughly 1,100 American troops deployed to the country.
US troops have conducted more than 300 operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria so far this year – nearly as many as in all of 2022.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, the US military’s primary ally in Syria, is fighting Arab tribesmen and other Syrian rebels backed by Turkey.
The Taliban killed an ISIS leader who planned the attack on Abbey Gate that killed 13 US troops. The US was not involved in the operation.
Sunday’s helicopter operation is the latest attack on the terror group’s leaders in Syria in recent months.
Factors outside the U.S. military’s control have made the mission of defeating ISIS for good more difficult.
