ISIS remains the best-funded, best-equipped terrorist organization the world has ever seen. But for the first time since its rise in 2014, real progress is being made against the jihadist group.

After all, ISIS’s predecessor was seriously weakened during the U.S. troop surge in Iraq in 2007. But the insurgents made a comeback due to sectarianism and misrule in Baghdad.

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing lands at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, November 12. Six F-15Es are deployed in support of counter-ISIS missions in Iraq and Syria ...

Currently, ISIS is winning the online war for the hearts and minds of tens of thousands of Muslims around the world. We must begin to act rapidly and aggressively and beat ISIS at its own game.

Inside the Air War 13:38. The following is a script from "Inside the Air War" which aired on October 25, 2015. David Martin is the correspondent. Mary Walsh, producer.

That detour is the war against ISIS in a nutshell: two steps forward, one step back. The U.S. has been carrying out a slow but steady military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, ...

US troops have conducted more than 300 operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria so far this year – nearly as many as in all of 2022.

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And if the ISIS threat really is greater than the al-Qaeda threat was on September 10, as Inhofe suggests, then there’s a case for doing the same in Iraq and Syria today.