President Donald Trump Friday restored Navy SEAL Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher’s rank after he was demoted following a lengthy court-martial this past summer on claims he stabbed and killed a teenage Islamic State solider.
Read moreA U.S. citizen and suspected Islamic State group member who has spent three days in a no man’s land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him will be repatriated to the United States, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said Thursday.
Read moreA Dutch judge ruled Monday that the Dutch government must make all possible efforts to repatriate Dutch children from detention camps holding relatives of Islamic State fighters in Syria, but it does not have the same obligation to their mothers.
Read moreTurkey on Monday deported a U.S. citizen who fought for the Islamic State as the government began sending back captured foreign fighters to their home countries, a Turkish official said.
Read moreA senior Turkish official says Turkey has captured the older sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, calling the arrest an intelligence “gold mine.”
Read moreEuropean countries are coming under more pressure to take back and prosecute their citizens who left Europe to fight for the Islamic State and who are now held in captivity in Syria and Turkey.
Read moreLawyers representing Dutch women who joined the Islamic State group and are now detained in Syrian refugee camps demanded Friday that the Netherlands allow the women and their children to return to their home country.
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The general who oversaw the U.S. raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi provided the most detailed account yet of the operation and said the United States is on alert for possible “retribution attacks.”
Read morePresident Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that the Islamic State member in line to replace Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist organization who was killed Saturday, has also been killed by U.S. troops.
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After the dramatic killing of the Islamic State group’s leader, the Pentagon is increasing U.S. efforts to protect Syria’s oilfields from the extremist group and from Syria itself and its Russian ally. It’s a new high-stakes mission even as American troops are withdrawn from other parts of the country.
Read moreAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, was killed in a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. He provided graphic details of al-Baghdadi’s final moments as American forces pursued and cornered him and his children in a tunnel.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday as chaos swirled on the Turkey-Syria border and Iraqi leaders chafed over reports that the United States may want to increase the number of troops based in Iraq, at least temporarily.
Read moreThe U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands said the Dutch government should work with the Trump administration to bring Islamic State fighters back to their home country instead of holding trials in Iraq.
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President Donald Trump did not oppose a deal struck between the Syrian Kurdish-led forces, Russia and the Syrian government in Damascus to protect against a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, the commander of the force said as his fighters battled a new push by Ankara-backed fighters to seize a strategic border town.
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Leveraging his experience in foreign policy, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday ripped Donald Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Syria as the latest proof that the president is a “complete failure” who is gutting American credibility around the world.
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Washing his hands of Syria, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday the United States has no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America’s partners against IS extremists. Hours later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats walked out of a meeting at the White House, accusing him of having a “meltdown,” calling her a “third-grade politician” and having no plan to deal with a revived Islamic State group.
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Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Turkey on Thursday to push President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a ceasefire in Syria, but Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey’s invasion — facilitated by the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria — would continue.
Read moreWashing his hands of America’s presence in Syria, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday the U.S. has no stake in supporting the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as U.S. partners against Islamic State extremists.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were heading to Ankara on Wednesday to press Turkey to halt its offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters, President Trump said Tuesday.
Read moreTurkey launched airstrikes, fired artillery and began a ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, paving the way for an assault on forces that have long been allied with the United States.
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