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Syria confirms 'mass escape' from camp housing relatives of ISIL fighters

A Syrian official has confirmed “mass escapes” from a facility housing relatives of suspected ISIL (ISIS) fighters in northern Syria last month after the withdrawal of Kurdish-led forces who had previously controlled the camp. Noureddine al-Baba, the ...
War on the Rocks

Training the Syrian Opposition: So, What’s The Plan?

The world is focused on the United States and its Arab partners pummeling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the air in Syria, but observers should be paying more attention to the other pillar of America’s anti-ISIL strategy. And they ...
StrategyPage

Syria: March Update

March 27, 2026: For the first time since antiquity, the Iranian holiday of Nowruz will be celebrated in Syria. In 2025, Syria’s new ruler, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, was quick to restore enough order and security for businesses to prosper. This was so ...
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Australian PM Albanese says no help for ISIL relatives held in Syria camp

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that his government will not repatriate Australian women and children from Syria who have been identified as relatives of suspected ISIL (ISIS) fighters. “We have a very firm view that we won’t ...
War on the Rocks

Turkey’s Syria Intervention: No Guarantee of Easy Victory at al-Bab

With all eyes on the Battle of Mosul, fewer observers of the war against ISIL are paying attention to a major anti-ISIL offensive underway in Syria that may soon reach a crescendo. With the capture of the town of Dabiq from ISIL in northern Aleppo, Turkish ...
The Atlantic

Read the Full Text of Obama's ISIS Speech

President Barack Obama will address the nation tonight, live from the White House, to discuss the current situation with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. As we wrote earlier in our preview of the speech, the president is expected to announce an allied coalition to ...