... reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in the heart of Mosul’s Old City Monday, eight years after the mosque was destroyed by militants from the Islamic State group.
military forces conducted a rare ground raid in northern Syria this week, killing a senior Islamic State financier, the Pentagon’s Central Command said Thursday ... commandos killed the Islamic State operative, whom they did not identify, on Tuesday.
(Tribune News Service) — An anti-jihadist coalition led by the UnitedStates killed Salah Numan, known as Ali, an Iraqi leader of the Islamic State group, during an operation in northwestern Syria.