The United States announced Thursday that it will be starting working group meetings of the U.S.-Iraq Higher Military Commission in the coming days, discussing the future of the U.S.-led coalition… Continue reading "US And Iraq To Launch Talks On Future Of Anti-ISIS Coalition"
On Friday, 17 February, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that the US military, in collaboration with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), conducted a raid on ISIS targets in northern… Continue reading "US Forces Kill High Ranking ISIS Leader Hamza al-Homsi In An Operation In Syria"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most exciting and important defense news. In this weekend’s issue topics including the second hypersonic ARRW booster test,… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (18-22 July)"
After the recent successful capture of Hani Ahmed al-Kurdi in the Aleppo region of Syria, US forces U.S. Central Command announced that a drone strike had killed the leader of… Continue reading "US Drone Strike Kills ISIL Syria Leader"
President of the United States Joe Biden announced on Monday that the United States would be ending its combat mission in Iraq by the end of this year, ahead of… Continue reading "US To End “Combat Mission” In Iraq By End Of 2021"
The Iraqi security forces and Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve report that the “emir” of ISIS in Iraq, Abu Yasir, was killed in an airstrike near Kirkuk on January… Continue reading "ISIS’ Leader In Iraq Reported Killed In Coalition Airstrike"
The New York Times issued a retraction today for its 12-part Caliphate podcast, after a two month internal review found that the 2018 Peabody Award-winning series had been overcredulous with… Continue reading "Award-Winning New York Times ‘Caliphate’ Podcast “Did Not Meet The Standards For Times Journalism”"
A radical Islamist organisation with roots in Sunni Wahhabism, ISIS is a Jihadist movement that seeks to establish a new Islamic Caliphate under Sharia law. Founded in Jordan as Jama’at… Continue reading "In Profile: The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)"