Canadian troops are supporting Kurdish fighters as they push toward the Iraqi city of Mosul, says Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. Kurdish and Iraqi military forces launched the much-anticipated offensive Monday in a bid to free Iraq's second-largest city from the clutches of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The attack near the Lake Chad Basin is the largest U.S. operation in Nigeria since American troops deployed in February.

LONDON -- American forces in Syria have captured an ISIS leader who U.S. Central Command said facilitated a recent prison break by detained foreign fighters. Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal was captured in a joint U.S.-Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) operation in ...

Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that troops have retaken the northern town of Hawija from ISIS, driving the extremists from one of their last strongholds in the country. Haider al-Abadi declared victory during a press conference in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron,

The U.S. is planning to withdraw about 1,000 remaining troops from Syria over the next two months, U.S. officials told CBS News, ending a roughly decade-long American military presence there as part of the fight against the Islamic State, or ISIS.

The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service stated that the blast occurred in the desert of Al-Hadher as forces carried out field sweeps targeting ISIS remnants.

ISIS aims to create an Islamic state called a caliphate across Iraq, Syria and beyond. The group implements Sharia Law, rooted in eighth-century Islam, to establish a society that mirrors the region’s ancient past. ISIS uses modern tools like social ...