The shooting happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra on Saturday. President Trump and U.S. military officials attributed the attack to ISIS.

There are many ISIS detainees in eastern Syria, including many families of ISIS fighters. These detainees will need to be addressed, and the families de-radicalized.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq on Monday repatriated 240 Iraqi families suspected of having links to the Islamic State (ISIS) from the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, according to a war watchdog.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that 240 families - a total of 858

The number of U.S. troops in the country has fluctuated and currently stands at around 900. They are mainly posted in the Kurdish-controlled northeast and at the al-Tanf base in the southeastern desert near the borders with Iraq and Jordan.

What are the prospects of foreign intervention to check ISIS? — -- Since ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) intensified its land-grab across Iraq and Syria in early June, foreign powers have been drawn into the fight against the Sunni militant ...

FRONTLINE first reported on the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early February 2014, months before the group made international headlines declaring its own caliphate. Since then, our documentaries have covered how ISIS' predecessor, Al ...