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Bursting at the seams: Inside an overcrowded ISIS lockup in Syria
A team from Agence France-Presse were granted access to the lockup in the city of Hasakeh, where the prisoners in orange jumpsuits were crammed into the foul-smelling room that was...
Inside the Islamic State's 'prison of death'
The walls of the torture chamber bear the most devastating reminders of what this place once was. The prisoners writing on these walls knew their fate: They were going to...
Trump: ISIS' end 'is in sight' after recapture of Raqqa
US-led forces scored a “critical breakthrough” by liberating the northern Syria city of Raqqa from ISIS terrorists, President Trump said Saturday. “The end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight,”...
'We don't want them back': No mercy for foreigners who joined ISIS
PARIS — The forces fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group in Syria have tacit instructions on dealing with the foreigners who joined the extremist group by the thousands:...
US-backed militias declare 'total liberation' of Raqqa from ISIS
After a four-month battle, US-backed militias Friday declared the "total liberation" of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS in Northern Syria. Talal Silo, spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...
Next on ISIS: a global rat-hunt
Raqqa, ISIS’s de facto capital in Syria, has fallen, capping the destruction of the Islamic State’s modern-day grand caliphate. But the terror group is still dangerous — in many ways,...
Dozens of ISIS fighters reportedly surrender in Raqqa
US-backed forces are on the verge of driving ISIS out of its stronghold and de facto capital in the northern Syria city of Raqqa, military spokesmen said Saturday. Some ISIS...
Russia gives warning to US in Syria
MOSCOW — Russia said Thursday it had warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where US special forces and US-backed militia were operating if its own forces...
US-backed forces in Syria say ISIS on verge of losing Raqqa
BEIRUT — The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Wednesday its campaign to capture Raqqa from Islamic State was in its final stages and its fighters had seized 80...
US-backed forces breach wall around Raqqa's Old City
BEIRUT — US-backed Syrian forces have breached the wall around Raqqa's Old City, the US military said Tuesday, marking a major advance in the weeks-old battle to drive Islamic State...
U.S.-backed Syrian forces push into ISIS-held Raqqa
U.S.-backed Syrian forces have advanced into opposite sides of Islamic State's so-called Syrian capital of Raqqa, the forces and a war monitor said on Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),...
Trump agrees to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria
The Trump administration said Tuesday it will arm Syria's Kurdish fighters to help recapture the key ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, despite intense opposition from NATO ally Turkey, which considers its...
ISIS' capital is hell to live in and impossible to leave
To be trapped inside the Syrian city of Raqqa four years since ISIS swarmed in and declared it the “caliphate capital” is to be cut off from every principle designed...
US rhetoric 'partially to blame' for Syria attack: McCain
Sen. John McCain said members of the Trump administration should be held "partially to blame" for the Syrian poison gas attack because of comments made about President Bashar al-Assad. Referring...
ISIS uses terrified civilians as massive human shield in Syrian city
BEIRUT — Residents of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa live in terror, trapped as a massive human shield in the Islamic State's de facto capital ahead of the final...
Parliament attacker tied to toy car terror plot
London jihadist Khalid Masood was investigated by British domestic intelligence service MI5 as part of a plot to blow up a military base with a remote-controlled toy car, according to...
Jordanian pilot had no idea ISIS was about to burn him alive
The Jordanian pilot who was captured by ISIS — and then burned alive in a cage — had no idea he was going to be slaughtered on camera, a former...
ISIS thug executes his own mother in public
BEIRUT -- An Islamic State militant executed his own mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory...
Syria extends major offensive with aid of Russian strikes
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria's top general on Thursday said Russian strikes had helped government forces launch a "wide-ranging" offensive in central and northwestern Syria, where al-Qaida's affiliate as well as...
Syria carries out rare attacks on ISIS capital
BEIRUT — Syrian warplanes carried out a wave of airstrikes in the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa, activists said, in rare attacks that coincided with a visit by a UN...