The U.S. military believes that some 50,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the United States started battling the group more than two years ago, a senior U.S. military official said on Thursday, calling it a “conservative estimate.”
The official, who spoke to Pentagon reporters on condition of anonymity, said the figure showed how the United States was effectively combating the group with U.S.-led coalition airpower and limited U.S. troop deployments in support of local forces.
FILE – An Islamic State flag flies over the customs office of Syria’s Jarablus border gate as seen from the Turkish town of Karkamis, in Gaziantep province, Turkey, Aug. 1, 2015. Three IS leaders were killed in a December 4 airstrike in Raqqa, IS’ de […]
Die internationale Gemeinschaft hat dem Libanon Milliardenhilfen in Höhe von knapp neun Milliarden Euro zugesagt. Die Weltbank will davon vier Milliarden zur Verfügung stellen. Angesichts der Belastungen durch den Krieg im Nachbarland Syrien hat die internationale Gemeinschaft dem Libanon Milliardenhilfen zugesagt. Vertreter zahlreicher Länder und […]
The Hassan Sham camp, a sprawling refuge for displaced people east of Mosul, is growing by the day as people flee fighting in the city, which Iraqi forces are trying to wrest from ISIS control. Among the tents, toilets and food distribution centers, aid workers […]
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