Sdf

Latest Stories

In this April 3, 2018 file photo, prisoners play volleyball, in a Kurdish-run prison housing former members of the Islamic State group, in Qamishli, north Syria. The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday, June 10, 2023 that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Syria’s Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them

By Hogir Al Abdo and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.S. military vehicles on a patrol in the countryside near the town of Qamishli, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. U.S. and Kurdish-led forces had arrested an Islamic State group militant in eastern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, that they raided the home of an unnamed IS militant leader in the western countryside of Deir el-Zour and arrested him. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Syrian Democratic Forces say 6 fighters killed in IS attack

By Hogir Al Abdo - Associated Press

Syrian Democratic Forces soldier talks on a radio in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Dozens of armed Islamic State militants remained holed up in the last occupied section of a Syrian prison, U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces said Thursday. The two sides clashed a day after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced they had regained full control of the facility. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Syrian fighters set deadline for IS gunmen to surrender

Associated Press

Kurdish and Turkey-backed fighters clash in Syria, 18 killed

Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks from the podium after speaking in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid raises new ISIS fears, questions

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 23, 2019 file photo, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters pose for a photo in Baghouz, Syria, after the SDF declared the area free of Islamic State militants. SDF defeated the IS in March but the Kurdish-led force is now facing protests by local Arab tribesmen in Deir el-Zour province. If the protests turn to an all-out uprising against the SDF it could be a blow to Washington as President Trump has plans to reduce America's military presence in Syria. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Anti-Kurdish protests in east Syria could endanger US plans

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters walk in a building as fight against Islamic State militants continue in the village of Baghouz, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

ISIS ‘caliphate’ ends in Baghouz, Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from a strike on Baghouz, Syria, on the Islamic State group's last piece of territory on Friday, March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US-allied Syrian force declares victory over Islamic State

By PHILIP ISSA and ANDREA ROSA and MAYA ALLERUZZO - Associated Press

People walk inside Baghouz, the Islamic State group's last pocket of territory in Syria, Sunday, March 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US-backed forces admit to ‘difficulties’ beating IS in Syria

By PHILIP ISSA and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter watches illumination rounds light up Baghouz, Syria, as the last pocket of Islamic State militants is attacked on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US-backed Syrian forces push on as IS militants fight back

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

An illumination round lights up the battlefield as U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fire on Islamic State militant positions in Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Islamic State group calls on followers to avenge Syria siege

By PHILIP ISSA and MAAMOUN YOUSSEF - Associated Press

A woman and her children, who were evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State sit outside Baghouz, Syria, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. The latest wave of evacuations brings the final defeat of IS by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces one step closer — a milestone in the devastating four-year campaign to defeat the group’s so-called “caliphate” that once covered a vast territory straddling both Syria and Iraq.(AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

Angry and defiant, IS families surrender in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A member of U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) watches a wounded man climb off of a truck after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 4, 2019. Hundreds of people including IS fighters evacuated their last foothold in eastern Syria hours after U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said they were forced to slow their advance because the extremists are using civilians as human shields.(AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

Prominent French jihadis killed in IS-held area in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Columns of black smoke billow from the last small piece of territory held by Islamic State militants as U.S. backed fighters pounded the area with artillery fire and occasional airstrikes in Baghouz, Syria, Sunday, March 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

Hundreds leave IS-held area in Syria as fighting slows down

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A woman is frisked by a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter at a screening area after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

US-backed Syrian fighters advance on 2 fronts against IS

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Men sit in the back of a truck as they wait to be screened by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

French militant linked to Paris attack killed in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit outside a building as fight against Islamic State militants continue in the village of Baghouz, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

‘Taking their last breath’: IS hides among Syrian civilians

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit atop a hill in the desert outside the village of Baghouz, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. U.S.-backed Syrian forces are clearing two villages in eastern Syria of remaining Islamic State militants who are hiding among the local population, and detaining others attempting to flee with the civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

US-backed Syria force says IS territorial defeat is near

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit atop a hill in the desert outside the village of Baghouz, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. U.S.-backed Syrian forces are clearing two villages in eastern Syria of remaining Islamic State militants who are hiding among the local population, and detaining others attempting to flee with the civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Push on last IS enclave blunted by discovery of civilians

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This frame grab from video provided Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group, that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters looking at smoke rising from a shell that targeted Islamic State group militants, in the village of Baghouz, Deir El-Zour, eastern Syria. Fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and IS inflicted more casualties among people fleeing the violence in eastern Syria Tuesday where the extremists are on the verge of losing the last area they control. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP)

Activists: More than 200 IS fighters surrender in east Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press