The general, like other military experts, was watching closely last week as some 30,000 Iraqi troops launched a counteroffensive against ISIS in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein.

Roughly 2,500 US troops support OIR in Iraq, alongside the Iraqi military. This deployment began in 2014 as ISIS conquered substantial territory in Iraq and Syria, threatening Baghdad.

The U.S. military and its partner forces in Iraq and Syria continued their fight to degrade ISIS in 2022, running hundreds of operations that killed or captured more than 1,000 ISIS fighters.

After 10 years, the military coalition of countries working to defeat ISIS in Iraq is coming to an end. The American and Iraqi governments announced Friday a phasing down of Combined Joint Task ...

Iraqi and US forces conducted a major multi-day raid against ISIS in Iraq’s western Anbar province on August 29 – the largest joint operation in recent years. While such efforts were common ...