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December 28, 2021 Louis Bernd

ISIS “Down” but “Not Out” in Iraq

The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS recently announced the transfer of some of its forces from Iraq to northern Africa to counter increasingly lethal affiliates of ISIS and al-Qaeda. While about 2,400 U.S. troops remain in Iraq to advise, train, and...

October 26, 2021 Gregory Waters

Smuggling Away the Future in Syria’s Northeast

October marks seven years since the United States first began providing equipment and air support to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), and later to their umbrella organization the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in their anti-ISIS campaign...

September 20, 2021 Gregory Waters

Understanding ISIS’s Damascus Attack

Late Friday night an ISIS cell detonated bombs at three locations on the outskirts of Damascus, destroying the main pipeline carrying gas to the Deir Ali and Tishreen power plants and two nearby power pylons. This was the first confirmed ISIS attack...

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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