Tabqa
Washington’s Anti-IS Envoy In Ankara After Syria Visit
The White House envoy coordinating the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group was holding talks in Ankara on...
US-Backed Forces Cut Off Last IS Escape Route From Raqa
US-backed forces cut off the last escape route for the Islamic State group from Raqa on Thursday, a monitor said,...
US Envoy To Anti-IS Coalition Visits Syria’s Tabqa
The White House envoy to the US-led coalition bombing the Islamic State group, Brett McGurk, met on Thursday with local...
We Retain the Right To Self Defense
The White House hit back at Russia on Monday after the Kremlin warned it would track US-led coalition aircraft in Syria...
Five Facts On Targeted IS-Held Syrian City of Raqa
As US-backed Arab and Kurdish forces broke into the Islamic State group's bastion of Raqa on Tuesday for the first...
US Begins Sending Arms To Kurdish Fighters In Syria
The United States on Tuesday began providing small arms to Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in...
Hunger and Fear In Syria’s Tabqa After IS Defeat
When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were...
US-Backed Forces Seize Syria’s Tabqa, Dam From IS
A US-backed alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters on Wednesday captured the key city of Tabqa and its nearby dam...
US To Arm Kurds In Battle For Raqqa
US President Donald Trump has approved supplying weapons to Kurdish forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in...
‘Dozens Killed’ In ISIL Attack On Northeast Syria
At least 37 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed in an attack by ISIL fighters targeting a crossing...
US-Backed Forces Battle IS Last Pocket In Syria’s Tabqa
US-backed fighters battled to clear the Islamic State group from a final pocket of Syria's Tabqa on Tuesday after...
Many Dead In IS Attack On Displaced People’s Camp
More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria's...
IS Attack ‘kills 32 Near Syria Refugee Camp On Iraq Border’
At least 32 people were killed on Tuesday in an Islamic State group attack near a refugee camp on the Syrian side of...
US-Backed Forces Seize 80% of Syria’s Tabqa From IS
US-backed fighters have captured 80 percent of Syria's Tabqa from the Islamic State group, a monitor said on Monday, a...
US-Backed Syrian Rebels Advance On ISIS Raqqa Stronghold
A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against the ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the jihadist bastion of...
A Waterway Lifeline For US-Backed Syria Force Fighting IS
As US-backed fighters advance on the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian stronghold Raqa, a waterway "corridor" has...
US-Backed Syria Force Advances Against IS In Tabqa
A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against the Islamic State group in the key town of Tabqa near the...
Turkish Strikes Kill Kurdish Fighters In Syria, Iraq
Turkish warplanes killed more than 20 Kurdish fighters Tuesday in strikes in Syria and Iraq, where the Kurds are key...
A Strategic Prize
Syria's Tabqa, which US-backed forces entered Monday, is doubly strategic: it lies on the road to the Islamic State...