Terrorism
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:41
The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State aims this year to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, working with Iraqi government forces, and drive the jihadis out of Raqqa, their stronghold in northeast Syria, Arab and Western officials say.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:37
Funding for a multinational force to combat Boko Haram's deadly Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa remains well short of its target, an African Union official said on Tuesday. So far donors, including Nigeria, Switzerland and France, have pledged about $250 million to fund the 8,700-strong regional force, the African Union's Peace and Security Council said after a meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss funding.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:17
The Pentagon plans to sharply increase spending on the fight against the Islamic State group and potentially put more American troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria later this year, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:05
With the fight against the Islamic State in its second year, American forces and their peshmerga counterparts have become deeply entwined.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:02
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called out members of “our so-called coalition” Tuesday for not doing more to fight the Islamic State group, commonly known as ISIL or ISIS.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 05:59
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that members of the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State had agreed at a meeting here to intensify their efforts to defeat the group, but he ruled out sending United States forces to intervene in Libya, where the Sunni extremists are pressing to claim territory.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 06:46
Citing the retaking of Ramadi by Iraqi forces as a “turning point” in the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, the top U.S. general in charge of operations there said that the Pentagon has reached the “end of the beginning” in the campaign to drive the extremist group out of the country.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 06:36
The Islamic State offers a false choice between dictatorship and extremism. Tunisia proves there’s a better way.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 06:39
Scores of people, including children, have been killed in a Nigerian town by Boko Haram fighters who shot at villagers and set fire to their homes in the latest deadly attack by the Islamist militant group. The attack took place on Saturday in the village of Dalori, which lies about 12km (seven miles) from the northern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s north-east.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 06:29
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has lost about 40 percent of the territory it once held in Iraq, but only about "five percent" of the territory it once held in Syria, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said Friday.