ISIS

What Does It Mean When ISIS Claims Responsibility For An Attack?

9:56am May 24, 2017

When the Islamic State says its "soldiers" carried out an attack, it doesn't necessarily mean the group planned or directed the terrorist act — or even knew about it in advance.

Soldiers transfer the remains of Army Sgt. Joshua Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Ill., at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Rodgers and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio, were killed during a raid in Afghanistan.

National

The Pentagon Investigates Possible Friendly Fire Deaths In Afghanistan

7:52pm April 28, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

U.S. forces targeting an ISIS leader may have accidentally killed two of their own.

Servicemen put on a military demonstration during the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Meeting in July 2016 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

Time To Consult Congress Over Use Of Force Against ISIS, Lawmakers Say

5:19pm April 28, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The U.S. has relied on legislation from 2001 to justify its use of force against ISIS. But a bipartisan group of representatives say it's outdated, and argue it's time for a debate.

A pilot prepares to launch an unmanned aerial vehicle from a ground control station earlier this year. The Air Force is moving to treat psychological stress faced by remote pilots and analysts a little more like the effects of traditional warfare.

The Warfare May Be Remote But The Trauma Is Real

7:38pm April 24, 2017

by Sarah McCammon

Drone pilots and intelligence analysts who work with them may not be in physical danger themselves but "no doubt are war fighters" who experience psychological stress, says the Air Force.

Iraqi civilians evacuated from fighting in Mosul hand their IDs to a member of Iraqi special forces to check if they're on a list of suspected ISIS members. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have been fighting ISIS in the city for six months and more than 300,000

World News

As Iraqi Forces Encircle Mosul, ISIS Unleashes New Level Of Brutality On Civilians

4:33pm April 18, 2017

by Jane Arraf

More than 300,000 civilians are still trapped in northern Iraq's Mosul. ISIS has kept them there as human shields to prevent the U.S. and Iraq from launching airstrikes and mortars against them.

Queue Listen Now

A photo provided by Eglin Air Force Base shows the GBU-43B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target on Thursday, the first-ever combat us

U.S. Drops Biggest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever Used In Combat

3:34pm April 13, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

The so-called Mother of All Bombs was dropped Thursday in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says it hit an underground ISIS complex.

This photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows blood soaked streets and damaged buses after a bombing in Damascus on Saturday.

World News

Explosions in Damascus Target Shiites From Iraq, Kill At Least 40

11:41am March 11, 2017

by Miles Parks

The bombing, near a revered cemetery on the border of the old city of Damascus, appears to have targeted Shiite visitors from Iraq. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The Marines will join the approximately 500 U.S. troops already in Syria, such as these U.S. forces on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Sunday.

World News

U.S. Is Sending About 400 Marines To Syria

3:00pm March 09, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The Pentagon says the new troops will fire artillery rounds at ISIS fighters in support of the local forces who are trying to take back the ISIS capital, Raqqa.

Burned, twisted metal from motorcycles covered an area where a suicide attacker blew up his small pickup truck outside a security office on Friday in the village of Sousian in northern Syria.

World News

Car Bomb Kills More Than 50 People Near Syrian Town Captured From ISIS

2:01pm February 24, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

At least 34 of the dead reportedly were civilians. The blast happened just north of al-Bab, at a checkpoint crowded with people who had fled the fighting and were preparing to return to their homes.

An airstrike targeting an Islamic State group cash and finance distribution center near Mosul, Iraq, as shown in a video released by the U.S. military.

World News

New Report Finds ISIS Territorial Defeats Are Also Hitting The Group's Wallet

4:56pm February 21, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The researchers found that ISIS took in approximately 50 percent less income last year than in 2014. That's because its financial fortunes are linked to the amount of territory it controls.