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U.S. military vehicles drive on a road in the town of Tal Tamr on Sunday after pulling out of a base in northern Syria. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says some troops may remain in northeast Syria to secure oil fields.

Some U.S. Troops May Remain In Northeast Syria To Protect Oil Fields

4:15pm October 21, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

Other U.S. troops will pivot to fighting ISIS in Iraq rather than immediately heading home. Some 300,000 people have reportedly been displaced since Turkey's offensive began.

Syrians bury Syrian Democratic Forces fighters killed while battling Turkish forces in the town of Qamishli on Saturday. Turkey's military says it has captured a key Syrian border town as its offensive against Kurdish fighters presses on.

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Turkey Claims To Have Won A Key Syrian Border Town From Kurdish Forces

5:44pm October 12, 2019

Heading into a fourth day of military attacks on northern Syria, Turkish officials say forces have captured Ras al-Ayn and several surrounding villages. But reports indicate fighting continues.

U.S. allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces say the White House's decision to pull troops from the Syria-Turkey border has left them without hope. Here, a U.S. soldier is seen during a joint patrol with Turkish troops on Friday.

'Shocking': Trump Is Criticized For Pulling Troops From Syrian Border

7:30pm October 07, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Kurdish allies of the U.S. say the president's decision is "shocking." Sen. Lindsey Graham says Trump is doing "EXACTLY what President Obama did in Iraq with even more disastrous consequences."

They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS

6:07pm September 20, 2019

by Tom Bowman

James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.

The inmate population at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, once stood at nearly 700 but has since dwindled to 40.

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Trump Rules Out Sending Captured ISIS Fighters To Guantánamo Bay

5:48pm September 20, 2019

by David Welna

Few foreign ISIS fighters captured in Syria and Iraq have been repatriated. Unless European allies accept nationals who are ISIS prisoners of war, Trump said, "we're releasing them at the border."

ISIS attacks abroad and a series of deadly right-wing attacks in the U.S. have fueled a demand for more information on extremist networks. Understanding them is the first step in fighting them. But there has been little discussion about potential harm to

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'It Gets To You.' Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work

4:08pm September 20, 2019

by Hannah Allam

Day after day, researchers are immersed in the propaganda of ISIS and neo-Nazi factions. But there's almost no discussion of the mental toll of examining the world's most dangerous extremists.

Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher walks into a military court building in San Diego along with his wife, Andrea Gallagher, on Tuesday. A military jury acquitted him of all but one count of war crimes — posing with the body of a dead 17

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Navy SEAL Acquitted Of Murder After Witness Claims To Have Killed ISIS Captive

8:32pm July 02, 2019

by Bill Chappell

A fellow SEAL had shocked the courtroom by claiming that he, not Edward Gallagher, killed the captive. The jury convicted Gallagher on one charge — posing with the body of the dead prisoner.

Laundry dries on a chain link fence in an area for foreign families of suspected ISIS fighters at al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria.

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Thousands Of ISIS Fighters Must Be Tried Or Let Go, U.N. Rights Chief Says

2:45pm June 24, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

Also, the family members of suspected fighters "should be repatriated, unless they are to be prosecuted for crimes" according to international standards, Michelle Bachelet said.

Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher and his wife, Andrea Gallagher, arrive at military court on Naval Base San Diego on Thursday. A witness stunned prosecutors after testifying that he, not Gallagher, killed an ISIS fighter in 2017.

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Shocking Revelation In Navy SEAL War Crimes Trial: Witness Says He Is The Real Killer

6:02pm June 20, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott stunned prosecutors as he described a previously unheard version of events, saying he asphyxiated the teenage Islamic fighter as an act of mercy.

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Jeelan, 11, the day after being rescued from an ISIS family who had held her captive for the past two years. She says she doesn't remember her Yazidi family. "I want to go back to Um Ali," she says, referring to the Iraqi woman who had been pretending to

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'I Want To Go Back': The Yazidi Girls Who Did Not Want To Be Rescued From ISIS

12:56pm June 19, 2019

by Jane Arraf

The girls, ages 10 and 11, were held captive for years and remember nothing of their Yazidi heritage. They miss the ISIS woman who looked after them and tell rescuers they want to return to her.