The headlines told the story. In late June 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was supposedly “celebrating” its “birthday,” the one-year anniversary of declaring itself an “Islamic ...

Recent gains by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria mark major setbacks in the nearly year-old campaign against the group. These developments undermine Obama administration ...

WASHINGTON, (Jan. 13, 2016) -- Delivering a lasting defeat to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, must be a global effort, and coalition partners and others must step up their ...

Four years ago last week, an al Qaeda splinter group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant declared the formation of a global caliphate. Throughout 2014, ISIL acquired a broad swath ...

Long running case regarding Lafarte’s actions amid Syrian civil war sees company ordered to pay fine, executives jailed.

President Obama dispatched his defense secretary to Iraq on Monday to review the ongoing fight against ISIS — and insisted coalition forces were hitting the murderous militants “harder than ever.” ...

FACT CHECK: Did President Obama "admit" during remarks he delivered at the Pentagon that the United States was "training ISIL"? Claim: President Obama "admitted" during a Pentagon speech that the ...

U.S. Special Operations forces carried out a major raid deep inside eastern Syria, killing a senior Islamic State leader who oversees illicit oil production and capturing his wife, Secretary of ...