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The Kurdish Peshmerga have limited tools in hand for their fight against the IS terror militia: they are for the most part poorly equipped, military co-ordination with the Americans is sluggish and US air strikes have thus far had little impact. By Karim El-Gawhary in Iraq

The school, which was founded by the community, is struggling with teacher shortage and lack of infrastructure

A moderate increase in the scope of ISIS activity around the globe. According to senior Turkish officials, ISIS leader was detained in a raid by Turkish counterterrorism forces in a house where he was hiding in Istanbul. The Egyptian security forces continued their counterterrorism efforts. Africa: Continued counterterrorism activity by the African Coalition forces against ISIS’s West Africa Province and Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region.

This week, there was a downtrend in ISIS activity around the globe in light of the end of its campaign of vengeance, which began on April 17, 2022, and ended on May 2, 2022. Syria: ISIS continued its attacks against the SDF (Kurdish) forces and the Syrian army. Iraq: There was a drop in the number of attacks in the wake of the end of the campaign of vengeance. Afghanistan: Operatives of ISIS's Khorasan Province fired rockets at a Tajikistan army headquarters near the Afghanistan-Tajikistan ...

Share This: “If I knew where Al-Baghdadi was, I would fly in and kill him tonight,” says Polad Talabani, the commander of Kurdistan’s Counterterrorism Group or CTG. Polad has been with CTG since its inception in 2004 and minces no words when it comes to what he thinks of ISIS. “We’ve lived here for 10,000 years, you think we’re just going to give it up to the Daesh?” he asked when interviewed by SOFREP at the CTG compound in Sulaymaniyah. Today, CTG operators are nearly indisti...

In the kurdish town of jelula, a bbc reporter paul wood captures the chaos as kurdish forces are temporarily surrounded by isis fighters. >> guy, come with me, come with me, come with me. >> down here, down here, down here. okay, okay, okay. >> we are surrounded in jalula and qatar. you need to find the most senior commander you can find and get them to get the troop -- can you hear me? >> that fire fight isis was ultimately pushed back but seems increasingly to be the exception. as iraq teeters...

The chaos as kurdish forces are temporarily surrounded by isis fighters. >> guy, come with me, come with me, come with me. >> down here, down here, down here. okay, okay, okay. >> we are surrounded in jalula and qatar. you need to find the most senior commander you can find and get them to get the troop -- can you hear me? >> that fire fight isis was ultimately pushed back but seems increasingly to be the exception. as iraq teeters on the edge of breaking apart entirely, secretary kerry in baghd...