Tag: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Trump to Lift Sanctions on Syria, Meet with New President
President Trump said on Tuesday that he would lift sanctions on Syria, throwing an economic lifeline to a country devastated by nearly 14...
Syrians Wake Up to a New Government
Syrians on Sunday were digesting the overnight announcement of a caretaker government that will be in power for the next five years, accepting...
Volunteers Search for ISIS Kidnap Victims
No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls still held captive by the Islamist terrorists. Instead, their fates depend...
U.S. Waives Aid Funding Freeze at Syrian Camp Holding ISIS Fighters
President Trump’s administration has temporarily exempted from its funding freeze a U.S. contractor supporting the police inside a Syrian desert camp that holds...
Security at ISIS Camps in Syria Threatened by U.S. Funding Freeze
President Trump’s sweeping executive order to halt foreign aid threatens to freeze a U.S. program supporting security forces inside a notorious camp in...
How the Oct. 7 Attacks Transformed the Middle East
When Hamas militants led a deadly cross-border raid on Oct. 7, 2023, they triggered a war with Israel that has devastated Gaza. They...
This Part of Mozambique Was Like Paradise. Now It’s a Terrorist...
In October, we traveled to the Cabo Delgado Province in northern Mozambique to understand how terrorists who claim an affiliation with the Islamic...
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Meets With Syrian Leader
The Lebanese prime minister on Saturday headed to the Syrian capital, Damascus, for the first official visit to meet with the new government...
ISIS Says It Inspired New Orleans Attack, but Doesn’t Claim Responsibility
The Islamic State lauded the man who killed 14 people when he rammed a truck into a busy New Orleans street early on...
How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today
The Islamic State has lost thousands of fighters to death or prison and suffered the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and...