NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: This was the kind of prison break officials say could have changed the region, and perhaps even the world, overnight. Nearly 6,000 ISIS detainees, described by a senior U.S. intelligence official as “the worst of the worst,” were being held in northern Syria as clashes and…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Saturday that it had carried out ten strikes against over 30 ISIS targets in Syria, in recent days as part of a joint military effort to “sustain relentless military pressure on remnants from the terrorist network.” CENTCOM said, from Feb. 3 –…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. military has completed its withdrawal of American forces from al-Tanf Garrison in Syria, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Thursday. The departure, finalized Feb. 11, was carried out as part of a broader shift in U.S. posture in the region under Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Central Command announced Wednesday that it carried out five strikes against “multiple” Islamic State targets in recent days as part of a joint military effort to “ensure the enduring defeat of the terrorist network.” CENTCOM said, from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, its forces “located and destroyed…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. is mounting an increasing blitz of air attacks and military missions against Islamist terrorists in Somalia to reduce the real threat of jihadi attacks on the U.S. homeland. The terrorists are said to be mainly affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS) or al…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A video showing a Syrian militiaman holding what he claims to be a severed braid belonging to a Kurdish fighter killed in Raqqa has sparked outrage as Damascus moves to assert control in northeastern Syria amid a fragile ceasefire. In the video, the man holds up what…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both issued dire warnings about the pressing need to protect the endangered Syrian Kurdish population under attack by government forces in the war-torn nation. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who earlier this month ordered his army, which…
US troops remain in Syrian region to counter ISIS Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest on President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly ambush of two National Guardsmen in Syria on ‘Special Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Some ISIS prisoners who escaped from a prison in…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday it has begun moving ISIS detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraqi-controlled facilities as part of a broader effort to prevent the terror group’s resurgence and maintain long-term security in the region. CENTCOM said U.S. forces transported 150 ISIS fighters who…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for a suicide blast at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan that killed more than half a dozen people. Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, told The New York Times the attack was carried out by one…