Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine has been nominated to replace Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Brown was ...

AFRICOM said on its website that the operation took place on March 29. The US military coordinated the strikes with the Somali government. The strikes targeted Islamic State position southeast of ...

A series of airstrikes this week killed multiple Islamic militants in Somalia. According to U.S. Africa Command, the strikes, ...

Senators are almost certain to question Caine on the unusual circumstances of his nomination, whether he is committed to ...

Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. The ongoing violence ...

The extremist Islamic State group is resurging in parts of the world, adapting its tactics and expanding its reach despite ...

Richard Engel gets a rare look inside the prison in Syria for alleged ISIS members. It’s run by the Kurds, with U.S. support.

The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, ...

For what it’s worth, the Houthis claim to have carried out two different response attacks on the U.S. Navy off the Yemeni ...

President Trump on Friday announced that ISIS’s second in command was killed ... According to officials, U.S. forces in coordination with Iraqi forces conducted a precision airstrike in the ...

The head of ISIS has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces eliminated ISIS’s second-in-command Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known by his alias “Abu Khadijah,” on Thursday in western Iraq, the organization ...