Up to 600 Troops Now Set to Remain in Syria Indefinitely, Top General Says The fight against ISIS continues.
Israel Compares Hamas to the Islamic State Group. But the Comparison Misses the Mark in Key Ways It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS.
Groups Linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State Take Root on the Coast of West Africa Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State have been spreading from the vast, arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert...
Captured ISIS Insurgents (and Their Wives) Say Why They Fought for the Caliphate in 'Rojek' For four months, filmmaker Zaynê Akyol traveled Syrian Kurdistan visiting prisons and interviewing 30 jihadist fighters and...
Court Sentences Main Suspects in Belgium's Deadliest Peacetime Attack to 20-Year to Life Terms A chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam was the only survivor among the Islamic State extremists who struck Paris in November 2015.
Iraq Steps Up Repatriations from Islamic State Camp in Syria, Hoping to Reduce Militant Threats It’s a move that Baghdad hopes will reduce cross-border militant threats and eventually lead to shutting down the facility.
Fighting Between Rival US-Backed Groups in Syria Could Undermine War Against the Islamic State Group The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has...
Judge Rejects Military Contractor's Effort to Toss Out Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit Virginia-based CACI, which supplied interrogators at the prison, has long denied that it engaged in torture, and has tried...
IS Claims Responsibility for the Bombing that Killed 54 at a Pro-Taliban Election Rally in Pakistan An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54...
How the Coup in Niger Could Expand the Reach of Islamic Extremism, and Wagner, in West Africa More than 1,000 U.S. service personnel are in Niger to combat the growing threat from various groups of Islamic extremists.
Russian Flotilla Off Florida Coast Sparks Deployment of US Navy Destroyers, Planes The Russian Ministry of Defense said in an online post that the ships conducted exercises in the use of "high-precision...
The Army's Recruiting Problem Is Male A decade of declining recruitment numbers for the Army is almost entirely attributable to a significant drop in male...
Coast Guard Relieves Commander of Biggest Station for Failing to Act on Harassment Claims The service announced Friday that it relieved Cmdr. David Ruhlig on June 3 "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to...
Culture War Political Fights Resurface as House Approves 19.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise and Senate Eyes 5.5% For the second year in a row, the House approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, mostly along...
Pentagon Stands by Secret Anti-Vaccination Disinformation Campaign in Philippines After Reuters Report The U.S. military launched the disinformation campaign following a decision by then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper to loosen...