In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard,...

 (Anadolu News Agency)-  ISIL launched a counter-attack on Thursday, resulting in it controlling two areas in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.  The areas are close to Baghdadi town, located around 13 miles west of Hit city in Anbar governorate....

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...

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...