The World Cup soccer tournament to be held in Russia in June and July will be an "attractive target" for ISIS given Russia's role in the territorial defeat of the militant group, the UK-based analysis firm, IHS, said on Thursday, according to Al Arabiya.
Russian military officials recently rejected a coalition request to strike ISIS targets near At Tanf, Syria, a key strategic base used by U.S. troops, an official from the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS told CNN.
French President Emmanuel Macron says the military campaign against Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria should be completed in February, coming just weeks after victory was declared against the extremists in Iraq, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
American F-22 fighter jets have fired warning flares in Syrian airspace after Russian Su-25 jets entered an agreed upon deconfliction area, according to a U.S. official, The Independent reported.
On November 14, the Russian Defense Ministry's Twitter account published (and later deleted) "irrefutable evidence that U.S. is actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle East," sharing several black-and-white photos. Moscow claims the images were recorded on November 9 near the city of Abu Kamal in Syria, according to Meduza media outlet.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed on Monday that the man who opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas, killing at least 50 people, was acting on behalf of the group, but offered no evidence, according to CBS News.
A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families left the Lebanon-Syria border region on Monday under Syrian military escort, surrendering their enclave and traveling to eastern Syria after a week-long battle, according to Reuters.
Reversing course from his campaign pledges, President Donald Trump on Monday night committed the United States to an open-ended conflict in Afghanistan, signaling he would dispatch more troops to America's longest war and vowing "a fight to win," Reuters reports.
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have breached the old city in Syria's Raqqa after the U.S.-led coalition fired on two small sections of the historic Rafiqah Wall, allowing them to overcome Islamic State defenses, the coalition said on Monday, according to Reuters.
After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of Islamic State's de facto capital Mosul, and the prime minister declared the group's self-styled caliphate at an end, according to Reuters.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is the biggest threat to global security, even greater than Isis, John McCain has declared on his tour of Australia, according to The Guardian.
The Islamic State group, which is being driven out of its areas of territorial control in Iraq and Syria by Western-backed coalitions and has hundreds of French-speaking fighters, claimed responsibility for Thursday's shooting via its Amaq news agency, naming the attacker as Abu Yousif al-Belgiki, according to Reuters.
An Iraqi unit with U.S. and Australian advisers was hit by an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) mustard agent, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday of committing treason by allowing the U.S. military to drop the largest conventional bomb ever used in combat during an operation against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan, according to Reuters.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said, according to the Associated Press.