Raqqa

A top Syrian Kurdish commander died Sunday, several days after sustaining injuries during a U.S.-backed campaign to unseat the Islamic State from its de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa.

After days of mounting expectation, the Iraqi government finally announced a serious offensive to retake the city of Ramadi, the capital of western Iraq’s Anbar Province, from the Islamic State.

In a steady escalation of the fight against Islamic State militants, the U.S. military stands ready to send more American personnel and attack helicopters to Iraq, especially to help retake a key city seized by the extremists, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday.

According to a hacking group opposed to ISIS, there was a disagreement within the CyberCaliphate, the online branch of ISIS that conducts cyberattacks, recruits terrorists, and spreads its propaganda.

Syria’s government on Monday accused the U.S.-led coalition of launching airstrikes on a Syrian army camp in the country’s east that killed three soldiers and wounded 13.

Airstrikes hit several positions of the Islamic State group in its de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria on Sunday, killing and wounding at least 15 people, opposition activists and social media pages loyal to IS said.

A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the extremist ISIS group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed at least eight people

In measuring progress in the American-led air war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, numbers tell one story but results tell another.

A somber President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down and punish those responsible for a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet last month, “wherever they are hiding.” Intensified Russian airstrikes Tuesday hit the Islamic State (ISIS) stronghold in Syria that also is being pounded by the French military.

French police hunted Tuesday for a 2nd terrorist believed to have escaped after the bomb and gun massacres in Paris, while a U.S. official revealed that the suspected mastermind was part of an Islamic State cell that American intelligence agencies had been tracking for months.

The reported killing of British militant Mohammed “Jihadi John” Emwazi is a significant blow to the Islamic State.