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Germany plans military mission against ISIL

Germany has announced it is considering sending around 100 soldiers to northern Iraq to train peshmerga forces who are fighting the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told journalists at the Federal...

US to begin training moderate Syrian forces in March

The training of moderate Syrian forces to fight against ISIL terrorists will begin next March, a U.S. official said Thursday. Brett H. McGurk, a deputy envoy to the U.S.-led anti -ISIL coalition, testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee that...