For years, an anonymous narrator extolled the Islamic State’s brutality in videos seen around the world. “I don’t regret it,” a Canadian captured in Syria says.
Shamima Begum, 19, had expressed little regret for joining the terrorist group but wanted to return home to protect the health of her child. Her son was born in a refugee camp.
Seeking adventure, following ideals or settling scores, they joined an American-backed Kurdish militia to fight militants. But now, “it’s anyone’s guess what happens.”
In this week’s newsletter, John Ismay recounts the memorial service held for Navy Chief Shannon Kent, who was killed by a suicide bomber at a restaurant in Manbij, Syria, last month.
Shamima Begum, 19, who says she is nine months pregnant, faces an uncertain future, with no clear answers about whether Britain would try to prosecute her.
The American military departure may have a silver lining: a long-awaited resolution for thousands of Islamic State detainees who have been held indefinitely in Syrian camps.
Patrick Shanahan is expected to firm up plans for the transfer of troops to Iraq from Syria, a quest complicated by President Trump’s suggestion the soldiers would be asked to monitor Iran.
Patrick Shanahan is expected to firm up plans for the transfer of troops to Iraq from Syria, a quest complicated by President Trump’s suggestion the soldiers would be asked to monitor Iran.
“We will be working with you for many years to come,” the president told international diplomats, acknowledging that ISIS would be a threat even after the last slivers of its territory were reclaimed.
A stream of families and fighters, many of them hungry or injured, are surrendering on a rocky patch of desert in southeastern Syria.
Gen. Joseph L. Votel was another voice in a national security establishment out of alignment with President Trump on a range of issues, including Afghanistan, Russia and Syria.
The photographer, abducted in Syria in 2012, appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos, but the last one was more than two years ago.
The president’s remarks could inflame fears among the Iraqis that a shift of troops there from Syria would be a guise to check Iran, undercutting delicate negotiations.
The visit is a rare note of hope for the Christians of the Middle East, who have been persecuted, killed or forced to flee in recent decades.
The gun battles occurred on Saturday in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, six days after a church attack left 22 dead, the military said.
Aid groups are struggling to help families who have trekked through freezing conditions out of the Islamic State’s dwindling territory to a refugee camp in northeastern Syria.
The president says there is a “decent chance of denuclearization” in North Korea and argues that the Islamic State “will soon be destroyed.”
“Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school,” the president said a day after his intelligence chiefs disagreed with his assessments on Iran, North Korea and other national security threats.
The attack in the city of Zamboanga was the second in days on a place of worship in the Philippines’ restive south. A cathedral bombing on Sunday killed 21.
More than two years into his administration, the disconnect between President Trump and the Republican establishment on foreign policy has rarely been as stark.
Trump isn’t entirely wrong about the dangers America faces.
A deadly church bombing in the Philippines suggests that the extremist group is still able to fan the flames of distant militant movements.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is expected to join peace talks with the Americans.
The venue said the work, painted on an emergency exit door, was a memorial to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks.
An Al Qaeda-linked group now dominates Idlib, which could hasten an assault on the province by the Syrian government and its Russian allies.
The Islamic State has lost all but 0.01 percent of its original caliphate in the region, but officials caution this is just the end of one phase of the fight.
Why the United States needs to keep troops in Afghanistan.
The last time the extremist group was declared defeated, it returned even stronger than before.
The United States must ensure that a safe zone is guaranteed by international forces and not by Turkey.
Emilienne Malfatto has been documenting the lives of Yazidis, who returned to their ancestral homeland after ISIS was routed from the city in 2015.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an explosion that injured members of a Kurdish-led force, days after an attack that killed four Americans.
All but 1 percent of the territory the Islamic State once held in Iraq and Syria is gone, but to suggest that the group has been defeated, as President Trump did, is to ignore the lessons of recent history.