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In Iraq's Mosul, School Used By ISIS Becomes A Field Hospital

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday March 26, 2017

Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before terrorists seized Iraq's second city.

In Push To Reclaim Raqqa, Trump's Choices Range From Bad to Worse

World News | Reuters | Saturday February 25, 2017

US President Donald Trump's push against ISIS could present him with an unenviable choice: Alienate NATO ally Turkey by relying on Kurdish fighters or adopt a plan that may slow the assault and require many more US combat forces.

In Name At Least, ISIL Is Defeated

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday February 25, 2017

At least, that's the case in the hallways of the Pentagon, where military officials have done an about-face and started calling the Islamic State group ISIS, not ISIL.

US Says ISIS Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Alive, Still Leading

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday December 31, 2016

The Pentagon said Friday it believes that ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is indeed alive, despite repeated efforts by the US-led coalition to take out the terrorist group leader.

Berlin Truck Attacker Anis Amri Considered Going To Rome: Report

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday December 30, 2016

Suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri considered heading to Rome before finally plumping for Milan where police shot him dead, Italian media reported Friday.

Iraqis Celebrate First Christmas Near Mosul After ISIS Pushed Out

World News | Reuters | Saturday December 24, 2016

Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from ISIS, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church.

ISIS Says Man Shot In Milan Was Berlin Attacker

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday December 23, 2016

The ISIS group said that the man shot dead by Italian police near Milan on Friday carried out the deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market.

3 ISIS Terrorists, Involved in Paris, Belgium Attacks Killed In Air Strike: US

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday December 13, 2016

A coalition air strike in Syria killed three ISIS terrorists involved in plotting foreign attacks, including two men who helped facilitate last year's attacks in Paris, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Reopened Iraqi Schools Help Children Unlearn ISIS' Curriculum Of Terror

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday December 12, 2016

Huge smiles lit the faces of the Iraqi children lining up outside the newly opened school in Jadaa displacement camp, for many hadn't seen a classroom in two years.

Syrian Troops Close In On Aleppo's Old City

World News | Reuters | Wednesday December 7, 2016

Syria's army and allies closed in on areas near Aleppo's Old City on Tuesday, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of the five year civil war by driving rebels out of their last urban stronghold.

ISIS Arrests Shopkeepers For Hiking Prices In Nearly Besieged Mosul

World News | Reuters | Monday November 28, 2016

ISIS has arrested dozens of Mosul shop owners accused of raising food prices in the nearly besieged city, to tamp down discontent as a US-backed offensive closes in on the group's last major stronghold in Iraq, residents said on Monday.

Gaza Risks Becoming Easy Launchpad For ISIS: Qatar

World News | Reuters | Sunday November 27, 2016

Palestinian infighting and years of an Israeli blockade could turn the impoverished Gaza Strip into an easy "launching pad" for ISIS recruiters, Qatar's foreign minister says.

Blast Rocks Northern Syrian Town, Wounded Taken To Turkish Hospital: Sources

World News | Reuters | Sunday November 27, 2016

A blast ripped through a street in the northern Syrian town of al-Rai on Sunday in what was believed to be an ISIS suicide bombing and 12 wounded, mostly children, were brought to a hospital in nearby Turkey, security and hospital sources said.

Libyan Forces Edge Forward Against ISIS Holdouts In Sirte

World News | Reuters | Thursday November 24, 2016

Libyan forces resumed their advance on Thursday against ISIS militants holding out in a few streets in their former stronghold of Sirte, saying they had captured 25 houses and a stash of arms.

ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN

World News | Reuters | Friday October 21, 2016

ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.