Syria

An al Qaida-linked group in Syria freed American journalist Peter Theo Curtis after nearly two years in captivity.

Officials said the airstrikes in Syria against ISIL were effective but warned of a campaign that would take years.

The U.S. effort to train Syrian opposition fighters could involve more than 1,000 U.S. troops deploying to the Mideast.

Syrian rebels will get limited "defensive" air cover, but it's not "mission creep" in Syria's civil war, the Pentagon says.

The retired general returned to Capitol Hill to give an critique of the Obama administration’s policy in the war-torn country...

The U.S. has deployed at least six A-10 Thunderbolts to Incirlik airbase to hit ISIS targets in Syria, the Pentagon said.

A huge ISIS oil truck convoy was among the targets in the first U.S. airstrikes since the Paris terror attacks.

ISIS has lost about 40 percent of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and an estimated 2,500 fighters to coalition...

The DoD's relatively new Cyber Command has received its "first wartime assignment" in the fight against the Islamic State.

A U.S. service member was wounded by ISIS in Syria, and a second was wounded in Iraq over the weekend, the Pentagon said.