Tag Archives: ISIS

Anti-ISIS fighters declared victory over the group in its de facto capital, but defeating its ideology will be a more difficult battle, writes Derek Stoffel. CBC | World News

A commander with the U.S.-backed Syrian forces battling ISIS says the city of Raqqa has been liberated from militants and that combing operations are underway to clear the city of land mines and extremist sleeper cells. CBC | World News

SAS snipers took out 15 Isis fighters in a daring operation to stop a Christian family being decapitated. Daily Express :: News Feed

AN ISIS fighter has reportedly challenged Prince Harry to a fight in an online propaganda video. Daily Express :: News Feed

Russia’s military showed off what it claims is a captured ISIS “tank factory,” taking international media — including a crew from CBC News — deep into Syria’s desert to the town of Okeirbat. CBC | World News

Russia’s military fired seven cruise missiles Thursday at Islamic State targets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour as pro-government forces closed in on the militants holed up in the eponymous capital. CBC | World News

In early 2014, a young Toronto-area man who went by the jihadi nom de guerre “Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi” (Abu Huzaifa the Canadian) cleaned out his bank account and left to join the ranks of ISIS. CBC | World News

Ceasefires are in effect in the border area between Syria and Lebanon, halting separate but simultaneous week-long offensives against ISIS by the Lebanese army on one side and Hezbollah and Syrian troops on the other. CBC | World News

Iraqi forces have raised the national flag in the heart of Tal Afar, ISIS’s stronghold in the country’s northwest, and say they’re poised to take full control of the city after a week-long offensive. CBC | World News

PETER Kosminsky’s epic drama The State taps into something many of us recognise. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed