Sentences with phrase «islamic state operation»

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U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

Euphrates Shield is the name of the operation Turkey launched inside Syria last August targeting the Islamic State group and the SDF, which is dominated by Kurdish fighters that Ankara sees as «terrorists.»

The U.S. - led coalition is currently backing a campaign by its Syrian militia allies to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa, Islamic State's base of operations in Syria.

Their current focus is to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa — Islamic State's base of operations in Syria.

With about one - third of the fleet operating in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (indeed, four EC - 130Hs, teaming up with the RC - 135 Rivet Joint and other EA assets, are operating over Iraq and Syria to deny the Islamic State the ability to communicate), the fact that a single EC - 130H (73 - 1590 «Axis 43») was recently deployed from Davis Monthan AFB to Osan Air Base, South Korea, where it arrived via Yokota, on Jan. 4, 2018, it's pretty intriguing.

Billed as the Trump administration's new strategy on Syria, the announcement will prolong the risks and redefine the mission for the U.S. military, which has for years sought to define its operations in Syria along more narrow lines of battling Islamic State and has about 2,000 U.S. ground forces in the country.

In the complex fight against Islamic State, also known as ISIL, Canadian special operations troops are helping advise and train Kurdish forces.

Airstrikes take place almost daily as part of ongoing campaigns such as the battle against the Islamic State, but focused initial missile strikes and military operations can have an abrupt impact on markets.

The book suggests ways that Muslims may liberalize Islam through what she calls «operation ijtihad,» an ambitious initiative that would empower more Muslim women economically, align Islamic human rights codes with those of the modern world, reform radio and television outlets, create a less militant paradigm for the relationship between mosque and state, incorporate more democracy into the Muslim world and allow for engagement in interfaith activity.

This new theatre of operation and the ability to operate, at least initially, without mass opposition, allowed Islamic State increase in strength and eventually launch an invasion back into Iraq, capturing a large swath of territory in the process.

The approval rating of Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin is higher among his citizen due to the successful anti-terrorist operation in Syria where the Russian Air Force is conducting a successful campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and the accession of the Crimean Republic into the Russian Federation.

In Iraq, the delegation visited a U.S. command center in Erbil, learning about support operations to help Iraqi troops in their battle against the Islamic State for the northern city of Mosul.

MANBIJ, SYRIA / WASHINGTON — As part of the global coalition against Islamic State, the United States this week increased its special operations troops in the flashpoint town of Manbij in northern...