Since then, fourteen countries in a US-led coalition have also executed airstrikes on IS in Iraq and in Syria. Starting from September 2014, United States began closely co-operating with Saudi Arabia …

Jan 3, 2026 · Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a transnational jihad movement that originated among Sunni Iraqis and until 2014 was affiliated with al-Qaeda. ISIS declared the establishment of a …

Oct 11, 2024 · In 2014, the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria swept across the two nations threatening millions of people in the Middle East with a vicious government that embraced murder, …

Aug 25, 2025 · More than a decade after the US-led Global Coalition was formed to defeat ISIS, Iraq is entering a decisive phase. The September 2025 deadline for US troop withdrawals, set in the 2022 …

In 2014, ISIS declared itself a caliphate and took over vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. In 2019, an international coalition retook ISIS’s last overt stronghold in Syria.

6 days ago · Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British and French war planes have bombed an underground facility in Syria that was used by Isis militants ...

Jun 28, 2024 · Ten years ago, the terrorist group known as ISIS stunned the world when it seized wide swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared its own caliphate.

The War in Iraq (2013–2017) was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State.

After the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, Iraq plunged into instability, creating a power vacuum, and triggering a series of events that led to the rise of different militant …

Jan 7, 2025 · The US launched a series of strikes against the Islamic State’s (IS) network in Iraq and Syria over the past week. The operations are part of the US military’s continuing effort to degrade the …