Official: "They operate like a state with a military." — -- With the Obama White House left reeling from the "savage" slaughter of an American journalist held hostage by ISIS terrorists ...

Col. Joshua Thiel, Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan commander. A faction of ISIS-K attempted to establish a caliphate in Nangarhar province since its first arrival to Afghanistan in 2014.

Fawaz’s testimony, combined with ISIS’s own documentation of its military infrastructure, divide the military army into seven parts: infantry, snipers, air defence, special forces, artillery ...

Basis of US military, political presence in Syria is to ensure security of people of region, eliminate threat of terrorism, ...

Bearded and wearing bright-blue bandanas, the Islamic State group's "special forces" unit gathered around their commander just before they attacked the central Syrian town of al-Sukhna.

Last year, U.S. special forces killed a key ISIS leader and captured his wife in a raid in Syria, but the new force in Iraq was intended as a more dedicated deployment. American officials have ...

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for its first attack targeting Syria's transitional government, saying it killed ...

"Real estate office" reads a hand-lettered metal sign featuring the now-familiar logo of ISIS, an organization in retreat in Iraq but far from defeated. The Iraqi special forces officers with whom ...

In a separate press release, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said international forces had fired two missiles into a building housing an ISIS commander near Jarabulus ...

Then in September 2014, it was announced the strikes would be extended to Isis fighters in neighbouring Syria. The US has also conducted a series of special forces operations in both countries.

Later that year, on October 26, U.S. Special Operations Forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near Idlib, Syria. Despite the destruction of the caliphate, the drawdown of U.S. forces ...

The test of the 62-nation coalition that Obama has assembled will come when U.S.-backed Iraqi forces attempt to oust ISIS this spring. Eight countries in the coalition are dropping bombs on ISIS ...