Syria announces arrest of Damascus' ISIS leader, Taha al Zoubi, in international coalition op.
Syria arrests ISIS leader Taha al Zoubi in Moadamiya after a joint security operation, seizing a suicide belt and military weapons during the raid.
Syria arrests ISIS leader Taha al Zoubi in Moadamiya after a joint security operation, seizing a suicide belt and military weapons during the raid.
Four of the suspects arrived in Germany in December 2014 and two arrived the following year. All six had applied for asylum.
The capture of the town marks the end of Islamic State's era of territorial rule over a so-called caliphate that it proclaimed in 2014 across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Report says terror group may have lost ground in Middle East but “it did not cease to exist, but, rather, changed the pattern of its activities.”
Syria's army declared victory over Islamic State on Thursday, saying its capture of the jihadists' last town in the country marked the collapse of their three-year, hard-line reign in the region.
After Raqqa's fall, the jihadists will have to look elsewhere for income and influence.
"With the liberation of ISIS’s capital and the vast majority of its territory, the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight," US President Donald Trump has announced.
Wissam Zubidat left Israel with his wife and children and covertly joined the group in Iraq, where he participated in the ISIS fights of Mosul.
Kurdish fighters and their allies celebrate in Raqqa as the US-led coalition’s allies defeat ISIS and wonder what comes next in eastern Syria.
US-led coalition forces, Syrian rebels, and the Syrian military have slowly re-taken many of ISIS's strongholds over the last several months.
After months of intense fighting and heavy US bombardment, forces have surrounded Islamic State militants in a small part of the city.