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US provided ‘limited ground support’ to Syrian fighters battling ISIS
The U.S. has provided some ground support to Kurdish forces.
US-backed fighters launch final push to defeat ISIS in Syria
U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces said Saturday they have launched a final push to defeat the Islamic State group in the last tiny pocket the extremists hold in eastern Syria.
US in ‘early stages’ of withdrawal, as ISIS squeezed into a few square miles
ISIS' last stretch of territory has been crunched into a tiny area measuring roughly six square kilometers, according to Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF.
By Kyle Rempfer
ISIS car bomb targets US troops in Syria one week after four Americans were killed in Manbij
The attack comes just days after four Americans, including two service members, were killed in the Syrian town of Manbij.
By Kyle Rempfer
Reports: 2 British soldiers wounded in ISIS attack in Syria
An announcement from a Kurdish-led force said they captured five foreign ISIS fighters, including two Americans, two Pakistanis and one Irish citizen.
Trump triggers another resignation after sudden Syria policy shift
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest over President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.
Trump move to pull US troops from Syria opens way to turmoil
The United States' Kurdish allies had been gearing up for a new fight for weeks, digging trenches and defense tunnels in northeastern Syria in preparation for an offensive Turkey’s president warned was imminent.
US troops are leaving, but ISIS is not defeated in Syria
It’s still unclear what the actual status is of American troops on the ground in Syria.
By Shawn Snow
US-backed Syria Kurds say fight against Islamic State threatened by Turkey
The main Syrian Kurdish-led militia warned on Thursday that threats by Turkey’s president to launch a new military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria will negatively impact their fight against the Islamic State group.
After defeat in Iraq, ISIS fights on in last enclave in Syria
A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in eastern Syria, engaging in deadly battles with U.S.-backed forces.
Americans and Russians have exchanged gunfire in Syria more than once
“There have been various engagements, some involving exchange of fire, some not,” the U.S. envoy to Syria said.
By Kyle Rempfer