Islamic State

ISIS militants are being squeezed out of their final strongholds in eastern Syria.

With ISIS losing territory in Syria and Iraq, what will happen to their wives and children? We spoke to Borzou Daragahi of BuzzFeed News, who recently reported on meeting some of these women in Syria.

Amnesty International says the US-led coalition may have committed war crimes against civilians when driving ISIS out of Mosul.

There have been repeated rumors that the ISIS leader is dead, but the Pentagon says it cannot corroborate the reports. Now the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it’s obtained information from ISIS leaders of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death.

French President Emmanuel Macron was among the first world leaders to congratulate “our troops, who contributed to this victory.”