Tag Archives: ISIS

Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official says. CBC | World News

Syrian troops ousted Islamic State extremists Friday from Deir el-Zour, a major city in eastern Syria, while Iraqi forces retook Qaim, the group’s last big town across the border in Iraq, in simultaneous assaults that dealt further territorial losses to the retreating militants. CBC | World News

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility, without providing proof, for a truck attack earlier this week that killed eight people in the deadliest assault on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001. CBC | World News

RUSSIAN bombers have destroyed a series of Islamic State targets in a “massive airstrike” against terrorists’ facilities near the town of Abu Kamal in Syria, Moscow’s defence ministry have claimed. Daily Express :: News Feed

The driver behind the deadly truck attack Tuesday on a bike path in Manhattan had been planning it for weeks and did so “in the name of ISIS,” a New York City police department official said Wednesday. CBC | World News

US-LED coalition forces have found ISIS chemical weapons in both Iraq and Syria, a military spokesman has revealed. Daily Express :: News Feed

Iraqi forces are about to launch an offensive to recapture the last patch of Iraqi territory still in the hands of Islamic State, the military says. CBC | World News

The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by ISIS, are discovered in a central town in Syria retaken from the extremist group by government troops over the weekend. CBC | World News

Philippines defence secretary declared the last of the pro-ISIS militants in southern Marawi city “finished” Monday, exactly five months after the start of the siege that sparked fears of the group gaining a foothold in Southeast Asia. CBC | World News

U.S.-allied forces in Syria say they’ve captured the country’s largest oil field from ISIS. The Syrian Democratic Forces say they are in full control of the Al-Omar field. CBC | World News