Refugees are returning to Syria in larger numbers as ISIS hovers on the verge of defeat. This comes after the White House recently agreed to double the amount of its peacekeeping force to 400 troops to ensure regional stability after the withdrawal. One America’s Kendra Sitton has more on how the power players in the region are responding.
The Islamic State’s days in Syria are numbered as U.S.-backed forces capture militants trying to flea Baghouz.
An Afghan presidential candidate and eight body guards of a rival candidate are injured during a deadly blast in western Kabul.
The U.S. military is offering support to a multinational joint task force aligned against the Islamic State and its offshoot organization Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region of Africa.
A shocking new report claims the U.S. Army allowed hundreds of terrorist fighters to escape in exchange for billions of dollars worth of gold. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.
U.S.-backed Syrian forces launch a final operation to take back the last piece of territory held by Islamic State militants.A spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces said the operation resumed Friday evening after civilians were evacuated, and hostages kidnapped by ISIS were released.
U.S.-backed forces in Syria are vowing to defeat ISIS in a week. The Kurdish forces are currently waging war on the Islamic State’s last 1.5 square miles of territory in the region.
Hundreds of civilians are continuing to stream out of the Islamic State’s last enclave in Syria.
The U.S.-led coalition in Syria is holding hundreds of former ISIS members, who happen to be citizens of western countries. Many of these terrorists now want to come back to the U.S. and Europe, but officials are skeptical. One America’s Kristian Rouz looks into the matter.