Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

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Militants Flee After Foiled Philippine Resort Kidnap Raid

Islamic militants who landed on a Philippine tourist island triggering deadly clashes with security forces had planned...

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IS Now Controls Less Than Seven Percent of Iraq, Military Says

The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three...

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IS Now Controls Less Than Seven Percent of Iraq

The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three...

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Southern EU Leaders Say US Strike On Syria ‘understandable’

The leaders of southern EU nations said Monday that a US missile strike on a Syrian air base in retaliation for a...

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Near Mosul, Soldiers and Displaced Meet At the Spa

Hammam al-Alil's sulphur springs and reopened spa have become a spot where the soldiers fighting in Mosul and the...

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Pressed In Iraq and Syria, IS Lashes Out In Egypt

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find...

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Strike Kills 15 Near Syria’s IS-Held Raqa

At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected US-led coalition airstrike on Saturday near...

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Pride and Pain As Mosul Doctors Treat Their Own

Every time a patient is stretchered into the Athbah field hospital south of Mosul, doctor Sultan prays it isn't his...

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US Launches Cruise Missiles On Syrian Airbase

The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a government-controlled airbase in Syria, in retaliation...

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Iraqi Helicopter Downed In Fight To Retake Mosul

The Islamic State group shot down an Iraqi helicopter operating over Mosul Thursday, as security forces announced they...

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Mosul Humanitarian Crisis Deepens As Displacement Peaks

The fighting in west Mosul has forced up to 15,000 people to flee their homes every day recently, straining...

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Erdogan Has Command Responsibility For Aiding Terrorism

The infamy of the crimes against humanity carried out by Islamic State is legendary, but the still untold story is how...

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Number of Foreign Jihadists In Iraq and Syria Unknown

US intelligence agencies don't know the true number of foreign jihadists still fighting in Iraq and Syria, or the...

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Iraq Urges Residents In IS-Held Areas To Shelter At Home

Iraq's military on Wednesday urged residents to shelter in their homes in jihadist-held areas of Mosul, where its bid...

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Suicide Bombers Kill 31 In Iraq’s Tikrit

An attack by suicide bombers in the Iraqi city of Tikrit killed at least 31 people and wounded at least 42, army and...

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Civilians Killed In Attack Iraq’s Tikrit

At least 26 people have been killed and 40 wounded in an attack by Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Tikrit,...

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Trump Son-In-Law Kushner Visits Iraq, Meets PM

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner visited Baghdad Monday with the US's top military...

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Belgian Altar Boy Goes To Fight For ISIS, Then Returns On Welfare

With his blue eyes, brown hair and beaming smile, young Michael Delefortrie looked every inch the angelic altar boy....

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US-Led Strikes Kill 229 Civilians In 3years

At a time of growing concern about civilian casualties in Iraq, the US-led coalition issued a report Saturday that says...