US-led coalition

Washington greeted reports of the Russian air force’s first wave of airstrikes on Sept. 30 with fierce rhetoric. Moscow, said Defense Secretary Ash Carter, was “pouring gasoline on the fire” ...

"Most of us who came in after 9/11 have experienced nothing but combat in our careers," one pararescueman ...

“I’m doing stuff here that I never thought I’d get to do. We’re hunting. And there are very ...

Canada has no plans to follow its neighbor the United States in expanding airstrikes against the Islamic State ...

Islamic State militants invaded Iraq's west almost a year ago and overran the nation's second-largest city in June, ...

During a key battle in the rugged mountains of a northern province earlier this month, U.S.-backed Syrian rebels ...

America's top military leader arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a previously unannounced visit, his first since a ...

The Pentagon warned Congress on Thursday that the long, drawn-out military campaign against Islamic State militants is just ...

US-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria have killed more than 860 ...

An official for the main Syrian Kurdish force says Iraqi peshmerga fighters are getting ready for the battle ...

The Syrian crisis and, before it, the Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain have exposed ...

Lawmakers in Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region Wednesday authorized peshmerga forces to go to neighboring Syria and help ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking advantage of the US-led coalition's war against the Islamic State group to ...

Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were ...

A US-led coalition airstrike on a gas distribution facility in a stronghold of the Islamic State group set ...

In a period of about six weeks spanning August and September 2014, President Obama dramatically revamped his Middle ...

The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major focal point in the war against the Islamic ...

Intensified U.S.-led airstrikes and a determined Kurdish military force on the ground appear to have had some success ...

It may be less punchy than previous nicknames for U.S. conflicts in the Middle East—remember Operation Desert Storm ...

Bolstered by intensified U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeting militants from the Islamic State group, Kurdish militiamen fought pitched street ...

Kneeling over his brother's fresh grave, Ali Mehmud gathered clumps of dirt in his hands, raised them to ...

President Barack Obama and military chiefs from more than 20 nations gathered Tuesday in a show of strength ...

On the western edge of Iraq's capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, ...

The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at a Syrian terroristcell killed just one or two ...

The U.S.-led coalition ramped up its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions in the Syrian border town of ...

As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall ...

After two months, the U.S.-led aerial campaign in Iraq has hardly dented the core of the Islamic State ...