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Iraq's military has retaken half of Mosul from ISIS Iraq's military has retaken half of Mosul from ISIS Iraq's military says it has retaken the eastern side of Mosul from the Islamic State group, a critical milestone in its battle to drive the terror organization from the country's second-largest city. Lt.-Gen.
The Syrian government said Thursday it had retaken the city.
Even after areas are retaken from IS, violence often continues.
Iraqi security forces, backed by American airstrikes, have retaken Ramadi.
Not one village was ever retaken by the Viet Cong.
The photos were retaken, with Bales wearing a shirt and tie.
After brief skirmishes the LNA says it has retaken the field.
First to fall was east Mosul, which was retaken in January.
More than half the city has been retaken from Islamic State.
He's since retaken his post at the head of Breitbart News.
The Republicans had retaken the House, and Clinton wanted a reset.
The Syrian government has reportedly retaken half of the besieged areas.
President Bashar al-Assad has retaken control of most of Syria.
The government claimed Monday that its forces had retaken the valley.
The army had retaken the water plant from Islamic State in March.
"He has retaken territory through terror," says Edmundo Jarquín, an opposition leader.
The YPG, however, appeared to have retaken two of the besieged villages.
Assad's regime has retaken the eastern part of Aleppo from rebel forces.
In many retaken areas, the government has failed to restore basic services.
The city was finally retaken in early 2016, but left in ruins.
Since April 2015, Iraqi forces have retaken control of Tikrit, Ramadi and Falluja.
He's previously said Mosul would be retaken by the end of the year.
The Shabab have also retaken several towns after African Union forces pulled out.
Now, Syrian forces have retaken the area where the attack happened, Russia says.
Insurgents eventually captured the outpost, but it was later retaken by security forces.
If Hajin is retaken, the first of these indicators will be near zero.
Qurghan Tepa village was under Taliban control, but later retaken by security forces.
"We call for reflection so that the democratic path can be retaken," she said.
LNA spokesman Ahmed al-Mismari said troops had retaken Es Sider by mid-morning.
Parts of eastern Mosul that have been retaken from ISIS are not exactly peaceful.
The park, located in Eastern Mosul, was retaken by Iraqi forces earlier this year.
Iraqi forces have also retaken the northern city of Baiji, with its oil refinery.
The outpost was captured by insurgents, but it was later retaken by reinforcements. Jan.
The Taliban captured the checkpoint, but it was retaken shortly thereafter when reinforcements arrived.
After changing hands more than once, it was retaken by the Syrian army last year.
The Nigerian military has retaken much of the territory lost to the Boko Haram jihadists.
Backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Assad has retaken most of Syria.
IS fighters briefly overran Makhmour in August 2014, before it was retaken by Peshmerga forces.
His coalition has retaken Aden, Yemen's southern port, and 80% of the country, he claims.
More than 28500 million civilians were saved from ISIS and 6900,2628 square miles were retaken.
Rasool promised a detailed statement, outlining all the locales retaken by Iraqi forces, later Tuesday.
But with the threat diminished and a suspect in custody, he has retaken his seat.
In the newly retaken Bab al-Hadid neighborhood, a man greeted a pro-government fighter.
One security outpost fell to the Taliban, but was retaken by security forces later. Oct.
The outpost was captured by the Taliban, but later it was retaken by government forces.
Beijing regards the island as a breakaway province to be retaken by force if necessary.
The province's second largest city is Tal Afar, which was retaken from ISIS in August.
Now most of the areas they cleared and held have been retaken by the Taliban.
The outpost was captured by the Taliban, but was retaken later by security forces. Feb.
Two outposts were captured by the Taliban, but were later retaken by security forces. Feb.
In Italy's 5-0 defeat of Jamaica, the first goal came on a retaken penalty.
Heavy clouds have hindered air support, limiting advances, and Kurdish militia have retaken some territory.
The estimate the Pentagon had given was that 98% of territory had been retaken from ISIS.
The Emiratis have retaken Aden from the Houthis and Mukalla from al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen.
Rebels counter attacked and said on Sunday they had retaken the camp before the bombing started.
Sunni lawmakers wanted more allocated toward reconstructing areas retaken from the militants, which were predominantly Sunni.
On Tuesday, he shifted a bit, stating that "virtually" all territory has been retaken from ISIS.
The Nigerian army, backed up by neighbors, has retaken most areas held by the Islamist militants.
Kurdish forces have retaken nearly all Kurdish areas and removed 2628,28503 ISIL fighters from the battlefield.
Abadi had previously pledged the northern city would be retaken by the end of this year.
Nnadozie was given a yellow card by referee Melissa Borjas, and the penalty kick was retaken.
Fallujah, the major Iraqi city that ISIS has held since January 22013, has officially been retaken.
Noyon was among the towns retaken by Allied forces on March 18 after the Germans withdrew.
The Egyptian military has retaken control, but Clinton has opened the Pandora's box of radical Islam.
The army and allied militias there have retaken most of the eastern half of the city.
Two security outposts were captured by the Taliban, but they were retaken by security forces later.
Three army outposts were captured by the Taliban, but they were later retaken by security forces.
They have retaken Tal Afar and will keep it, says Mowaffaq Rubaie, an Iraqi former security adviser.
Well, the jungle had completely retaken everything except for one area that had no plants in it.
After punching through government lines, the rebels vowed to continue fighting until the entire city is retaken.
One of the spot kicks was ordered to be retaken twice after the initial efforts were saved.
Iraq appears to want a commitment from the Turks that they will leave after Mosul is retaken.
One commando hid in the trees for three days, until the district was retaken, the officer said.
But it was only after she had retaken office that the Germans really got to know her.
Several of the dead among the leaders were seen alive well after the prison had been retaken.
Another crucial decision is which Syrian groups will govern and secure the city once it is retaken.
The Hurriya, or Freedom, Bridge is the second of five bridges to be retaken by government forces.
Zakaria Malahifji of the Fastaqim rebel group confirmed reports that the complex had been retaken by government forces.
Elite soldiers have retaken a quarter of the northern city, but their advance has been slow and punishing.
The port of Mukallah was similarly retaken last year with 10,000 troops, largely Yemenis trained by the coalition.
Local Sunni forces expected to provide security in areas retaken from ISIS will also need extensive U.S. support.
Elite army troops have retaken a quarter of the city, but their advance has been slow and punishing.
The U.S. and its partners have retaken 40 percent of ISIS-controlled territory in part through local partnerships.
With the government's attention focused on that city, the Islamic State has retaken the ancient city of Palmyra.
It was the second time a penalty kick had been retaken in this tournament for a goalkeeper infraction.
But Islamic State fighters fleeing Falluja when it was retaken last year laid bombs, complicating the rebuilding efforts.
Girelli opened the scoring with a retaken, VAR-awarded penalty before netting again either side of the interval.
For while eastern Mosul is now largely retaken, western Mosul, with around 750,000 civilians, remains largely in IS hands.
In the east, over 90 percent of original inhabitants have come back to their neighborhoods first retaken from ISIS.
Three of the five have since retaken their pledges and were officially sworn-in, leaving just Leung and Yao.
The U.S.-trained Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) has retaken the nearby al-Thaura and al-Saha districts, statements said.
Now that Iraqi forces have retaken Ramadi, Sunni tribes are seen as the best hope to hold the city.
The Mosul Dam, northwest of the city, is among the positions retaken from the Peshmerga, the military statement said.
The only militias' collective interest — in the defeat of the Islamic State — will end when the province is retaken.
A regional force that includes troops from Chad has retaken much of its territory in the last two years.
U.S.-backed forces declared last week that they had retaken Raqqa, ISIS's de facto capital city, from the group.
Democrats have retaken the House and they've done so, in large part, because of wins driven by women candidates.
Raed Shakir Jawdat, the chief of the federal police, said that security forces had also retaken a government compound.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi expects Mosul to be retaken this year, effectively defeating Islamic State in Iraq.
Local forces backed by American airstrikes have retaken large areas of Syria and Iraq that ISIS captured in 2014.
In other cities retaken from Islamic State, local police forces have moved in after the special forces have cleared territory.
Five villages surrounding Tal Afar were retaken by Iraqi Forces and the PMF on the first day of the offensive.
Which means that until this episode, Arya had no idea that Jon and Sansa had retaken Winterfell from the Boltons.
The Mosul Dam, north west of the city, is among the positions retaken from the Peshmerga, the military statement said.
Rebel forces controlled the Agheour area for at least 3½ years before it was retaken by Syrian government forces Tuesday.
The shot of the baby then cuts to a grown Jon, who has just retaken the Stark's home of Winterfell.
Al-Abadi stood by previous pledges that Mosul would be retaken this year, despite increasingly slow progress on the ground.
The law currently states that if a goalkeeper commits an offense, the kick must be retaken and the goalkeeper cautioned.
" To make the retaken airfield fully functional, MacFarland said the U.S has to "bring in a wide array of capabilities.
And with the second-generation Swift 7, Acer has retaken the crown for having the thinnest laptop in the world.
The attacks targeted Kokjali, a suburb that the authorities said they had retaken from the jihadists almost two months ago.
Afghan forces said they had retaken Nawa district in July but there has been continued fighting in the area since.
Wanstrath had retaken his CEO role after his co-founder Tom Preston-Werner resigned following a harassment investigation in 2014.
Ramadi was retaken in December by the Iraqi army, local police and Sunni tribal fighters, backed by American air strikes.
Syria The town where Syria's bloody civil war started more than seven years ago has been retaken by government forces.
One of the support roles is clearing areas retaken from ISIS of booby traps and other explosives, according to Mattis.
Plotting underway in Raqqa now, General Townsend said, "is not unlike what emanated from Manbij" before that city was retaken.
Now, the last of that territory — a sliver of land along the Euphrates River in southeastern Syria — has been retaken.
A police outpost was abandoned when the officers ran out of ammunition, but it was later retaken by reinforcements. Nov.
They lived in an area of Mosul that had been retaken by the Iraqi government forces a few days earlier.
ISIS controlled Abu Kamal from the summer of 2014 until last November, when it was retaken by Syrian government forces.
An army statement said the Second Musherfa district as well as the Church and Mikhail's Monastery area had been retaken.
Jon Snow and his half-sister Sansa Stark have retaken Winterfell, their ancestral home -- and are mourning their youngest brother Rickon.
Rebel forces controlled the Agheour area for at least 3½ years before it was retaken by Syrian government forces Tuesday night.
Lopez had just been released from prison on July 8 and was on house arrest before being retaken the following month.
In recent months the regime of Bashar al-Assad has retaken control of much of southern Syria from rebels and jihadists.
Government forces maintain relative security in part of retaken Achin, but they do not enforce a ban on growing illicit drugs.
However, months after some areas in northern Iraq were retaken from Islamic State, local government services have yet to be reinstated.
"Nasr has not yet fallen," he said, referring to one of the villages which the international coalition said had been retaken.
Al-Abadi also stood by promises that Mosul will be retaken by year's end despite increasingly slow progress on the ground.
Despite accusations of human rights abuses, groups like Asaib Ahl al-Haq claim they have could have retaken Ramadi more "neatly".
"The counter-terrorism service and the rapid response forces have retaken the government compound in the centre of Fallujah," Lt. Gen.
"No one must be forced to return to the newly retaken areas," said Heidi Diedrich, the group's country director in Iraq.
"No one must be forced to return to the newly retaken areas," said the NRC's country director in Iraq, Heidi Diedrich.
The Allies would have retaken France with or without him, and some French politician would have taken that walk in 1944.
The cash-strapped government in Baghdad is appealing to international donors to help the city, the largest retaken from Islamic State.
On Saturday the Syrian military announced on state television it had retaken Eastern Ghouta, including the city of Douma, from rebels.
Captured by the Mongols and retaken by Catherine the Great, Crimea was the site of momentous Russian battles during many wars.
One possibility is Brienne, who snuck out of Riverrun before it was retaken and wouldn't mind some revenge for Catelyn Stark.
The country's Prime Minister says all areas have been "fully liberated" and Iraq has retaken control of its border with Syria.
Here, what is believed to be the charred body of a rebel fighter can be seen in retaken Bab al-Hadid.
The scene is more encouraging in parts of Mosul that have been retaken by Iraqi forces, our reporter observed this week.
"We have secured one battlefield and we've had victory after victory after victory and retaken both Mosul and Raqqa," Trump said.
Now that Mosul has been largely retaken from the militants of the Islamic State, uncertainty about the city's future is emerging.
The Syrian army, backed by brutal airstrikes, has retaken more neighborhoods, leaving only about a quarter of the area in rebel hands.
Sheikh Hassan Yaqub, al Shabaab's governor for Galmudug's Galgadud region, where El Bur is located, confirmed the group had retaken the town.
Some are beginning to return to neighborhoods retaken by government forces, faced with the daunting task of rebuilding their homes and communities.
Key buildings retaken from ISIS in Mosul "The situation is very good," said 26-year old Ahmed, also with the federal police.
House Democrats have retaken the majority from Republicans, setting the stage for potentially contentious leadership fights on both sides of the aisle.
Two of those villages had already been retaken by Peshmerga and Sunni Arab tribesmen earlier in February but not held, he added.
With heavy cloud hindering air support in the last 24 hours, advances have been limited and Kurdish militia have retaken some territory.
If Republicans had not retaken the House, the email scandal may never have become public, and Clinton could well be president today.
McGurk said about 2,000 Islamic State fighters remained in Raqqa and as much as 60 percent of the city had been retaken.
However, the Nigerian army claims it has technically defeated Boko Haram and retaken territories seized by the militant group in the northeast.
Infrastructure programs, initiated in 2015, have helped rapidly stabilize newly retaken areas from ISIS and given the population a sense of progress.
In the fourth chapter, after the military has retaken Kwangju, Dong-ho, hands raised in surrender, is shot and killed by soldiers.
"The repeated cases of penalties being retaken because of goalkeepers coming fractionally off their line is not fair to anyone," Hayes added.
Residents returning to their homes in areas of Benghazi retaken by the army say they have Haftar and the LNA to thank.
The northern city of Kunduz fell twice to the Taliban, in 2015 and 2016, but was retaken by the government both times.
The Saudi-led coalition has since retaken the south, but it has failed to oust the Houthis from the north (see map).
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said that US-backed forces have retaken 100% of the territory once claimed by ISIS in Syria.
Republicans have retaken the lead on a generic ballot ahead of the 2628 midterm elections, according to a poll released Wednesday morning.
Tal Tamr is a predominantly Assyrian Christian town that was once held by IS before it was retaken by Kurdish-led forces.
JERUSALEM Girault made the first known photos of Jerusalem, which the Ottomans had only retaken from Muhammad Ali a few years before.
And the American-led coalition is vetting and training forces to hold Tabqa, Raqqa and other nearby areas after they are retaken.
While the Trump administration has said the Islamic State was defeated and its territory retaken, officials say the group's fighters remain potent.
One of them said Islamic State was boasting in radio broadcasts of attacking areas retaken by Iraqi forces, where many civilians are trapped.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he expects the fight against ISIS to continue "for some time" even if Raqqa and Mosul are retaken.
If they were, I'd have had a harrowing time studying law at an inner-city university and retaken my sixth grade piano exam.
Major newspaper outlets in the States are leading with the main event - the fact that the Democrats have retaken the House of Representatives.
Some of the babies come from villages that were retaken from Islamic State months ago, pointing to a wider trend of food insecurity.
After that loss, I suggested that if the 2018 midterms had been held then and there, Democrats would not have retaken the House.
Brett McGurk, the U.S.' special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter Islamic State, confirmed on Twitter that Tabqa had been retaken.
Some of it's the ground taken, but more importantly in Iraq, what is the Iraqi government doing with the ground that is retaken?
It's an escalation of what Trump told reporters on November 7 after Democrats had retaken control of the House during the midterm elections.
During the speech, Trump said a formal announcement that all territory has been retaken from ISIS will come as soon as next week.
The park, also filled with colorful children's rides, is in the eastern half of the city, which was recently retaken by Iraqi forces.
On the ground the Syrian army has retaken Khan Sheikhoun, the site of a vicious chemical-weapons attack by the regime in 2017.
Trump faces a much more difficult task getting Congress to approve the USMCA now that the Democrats have retaken the House of Representatives.
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties, Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin and Lisbon.
A village or neighborhood that is retaken by government troops could soon be flooded again with extremist fighters, who are rarely far away.
It also requires security clearance - potentially a problem for people who fled districts that were rebel-controlled before being retaken by government forces.
The 300-odd men he said he commanded are part of a grouping of Sunni Arab tribal fighters who have received weapons and training from the international coalition and are expected to play a role in administering areas retaken from IS. Speaking on a road outside the recently retaken Kudila village, Nizhan chafed at the Iraqi army's control over the operation.
Teen drama has retaken its place in the entertainment spotlight with the popularity of shows like 13 Reasons Why, Riverdale, and old-school Degrassi.
State television reported that the army had retaken al-Farafra district in Aleppo's Old City and engineering units were clearing mines in the area.
After it was retaken later that month, however, many of the Iraqi workers never returned and the Iraqi government did not resume regular maintenance.
Our teams told me about three boys who lost their lives whilst out playing in a retaken area, after their games triggered a mine.
Republicans on the committee shuttered its Russia investigation last year, but Democrats have retaken control of the House, allowing them to reopen the inquiry.
In September, the Afghan military advanced into Badakhshan, claiming to have retaken three districts including Keran wa Manjan, a district that directly borders Panjshir.
Picking up after the events of Persepolis Rising, the militant colony Laconia has retaken the solar system and established the first human interstellar empire.
Elite army troops have retaken a quarter of the city in a grueling U.S.-backed campaign, but their advance has been slow and punishing.
The Nigerian army, backed by neighbors, has retaken most areas held by the group, but it has recently stepped up attacks and suicide bombings.
About 90 Islamic State-held villages and towns around Mosul have been retaken so far into the offensive, according to statements from the army.
Iraqi forces, including Kurdish peshmerga forces and mostly Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias, have retaken around half of that territory over the past two years.
Assad's government has already retaken most of the southern provinces and the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, with Idlib likely the last big fight.
With luck, USIP and its proven programs will play a role in the broader reconciliation of Mosul and other areas now retaken from ISIS.
Once it is retaken, we will also have to work out how to distribute responsibility for governing and providing services for this vast province.
General Townsend compared Islamic State plotting in Raqqa to planning by the group in Manbij, which was retaken from the Islamic State in August.
And not since Edward Koch's inaugural in 1986 had a Democratic mayor retaken the oath in one of the bluest cities in the land.
In a few places, like New England, the numbers have increased as forested land has retaken abandoned farmland: The wildlands have encroached on people.
By the end of the night the interior minister of the United Nations-backed government said on television that it had been retaken already.
Another day, we visited Bama, one of the most strategically important towns previously held by Boko Haram and recently retaken by the Nigerian military.
Having retaken Mosul, the Iraqi Army is driving ISIS into the Euphrates River Valley, where it looks like it will make a last stand.
The army and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias have retaken many areas from the militants, but the biggest test will be the battle for Mosul.
A flag belonging to the Islamic State fighters is seen on a motorbike, after the city was retaken by Syrian forces and their allies.
Nigeria's army, backed by its neighbors, has retaken most territory previously lost to Boko Haram, which launched an insurgency in the northeast seven years ago.
The Iraqi government has retaken several major cities from Islamic State in the past year and slowly pushed the militants back toward the Syrian border.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces "will not retreat from areas retaken" from Islamic State militants in Iraq, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said, according to Rudaw TV station.
Nordea has retaken its position as the Nordic region's biggest bank by market capitalisation after Norway's DNB briefly took the crown in June and July.
The army, which is also being helped by Iranian-backed militias, Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah militant group and a Palestinian militia, acknowledged rebels had retaken Handarat.
Speaking overlooking the town after it was retaken in a peshmerga-led offensive, KRG president Masoud Barzani said no other armed groups had been involved.
Beijing, recognized by most of the world as the head of "one China", deems Taiwan a wayward province to be retaken by force if necessary.
The town in northern Syria where the bombing took place was considered a success story for stabilization after it was retaken from ISIS in 2016.
Two of them, Paul and Thomas, were at the podium for her election night victory speech when Democrats learned they'd retaken control of the House.
Acknowledging that the Taliban had retaken territory and were terrorizing the population, Mr. Obama said he was again adjusting his plan to withdraw American forces.
The town in northern Syria where the bombing took place was considered a success story for stabilization after it was retaken from ISIS in 220006.
Syria's state media portrayed the desert city of Palmyra as close to being retaken from ISIS, which would be a significant strategic and symbolic victory.
Earlier this year, he made similar remarks late at night before an offensive on Falluja, which was retaken in June after several weeks of fighting.
However Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied the reports that Kohistan district had been retaken, saying in a statement that security forces had been driven back.
At the same time, government forces have escorted hundreds of the displaced back to recently retaken districts, such as the Bab al-Hadid district below.
Backed by Turkish shelling and drone strikes, rebels say they have now retaken several villages that they lost last week in the Syrian government offensive.
Fugitive Islamic State fighters are also gathering near the Palmyra ruins, in the north, that were retaken twice from Islamic State by pro-government forces.
But the Islamic State still controls the major city of Mosul, and President Obama has expressed skepticism that the city will be retaken anytime soon.
An assignment in late December took Waegemann to a field hospital in the town of Hamam al-Alil, which had just been retaken from ISIS.
The government said it had retaken about 85 percent of the city, but the militants had positioned snipers in buildings who were aiming at soldiers.
Kurdish peshmerga forces "will not retreat from areas retaken" from Islamic State militants in Iraq, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said, according to Rudaw TV station.
People fleeing from the recently retaken areas were looking for places to sleep, while some smashed wooden furniture from destroyed houses for cooking and heating.
But, overall, it was clear that Cleveland had retaken the White House at exactly the wrong time and that his second term was a disaster.
The Syrian army, with assistance from Russia, has retaken the ancient city of Palmyra, which the extremist group ISIS has been holding for nearly a year.
Iraq expects its refining capacity to increase by 100,000 barrels per day by mid-2018 with the rehabilitation of two refineries retaken from the Islamic State.
A report this week from Human Rights Watch also accused the Kurds of unlawfully targeting and destroying Arab homes in regions they have retaken from ISIS.
And one of the recent ones that kind of relates to what you're talking about is the way that artists have retaken a position within gaming.
And some students discover that the two years of classes they took "saving money" need to be retaken when they transfer to a four-year school.
Trump has regularly repeated that "very close to 100 percent of the territory" has been retaken from ISIS and that the US job is essentially done.
ISIS has reportedly retaken a number of "liberated" villages in recent days, capitalizing on the coalition's failure to secure all of its gains on the battlefield.
China considers Taiwan a renegade state that can be retaken by force at any time and Beijing has made clear its dislike of pro-independence Tsai.
More than 800 people were killed and 3,500 injured in Assad's final efforts to retake Aleppo, according to a report shortly before the city was retaken.
In recent days prices have gone up though as civilians are fleeing parts retaken by army due to suicide bombings and rockets blamed on Islamic State.
"Territory retaken from ISIL (Islamic State) has to be occupied and governed by people who are from the area and want to live there," Carter said.
A Rapid Response spokesman said the airport, once retaken, would be a close-support base for the onslaught into the west of Iraq's second-largest city.
However he said that most parts of the highway leading from Khanabad into Kunduz had been cleared and districts that had been lost would be retaken.
Now he's back to reclaim his hero status as a cash-manager, having retaken the CFO post in February 2017 after Jason Wheeler left the company.
TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State's stronghold in the country's northwest, the Iraqi military said on Sunday.
Scrocca said it could be several weeks before the city of Tabqa, the Tabqa dam, and a nearby air field would be retaken from Islamic State.
More than two months into the Mosul operation, elite Iraqi soldiers have retaken a quarter of the city, but entered a planned "operational refit" this month.
Freshly retaken from the Islamic State by the Peshmerga, the fighting force of the Kurdish regional government, it has become another town destroyed by the fighting.
Last December, Iraq's military declared that it had "fully liberated" all of Iraq of "ISIS terrorist gangs" and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
The latest insider attack has raised doubts about the Afghan Territorial Army, through which the government hopes to hold areas they had retaken from the Taliban.
Ghufran is one of thousands to have returned since Mosul was retaken from Islamic State in July, despite the difficulties of living among "rubble and checkpoints".
Palmyra later fell to Islamic State fighters again, and before being retaken by Syrian government forces, large portions of that amphitheater were destroyed by the group.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulated Iraq's armed forces and people, saying Rawa was retaken in record time and that Iraq would soon completely defeat Islamic State.
The Iraqi army has won a string of victories against ISIS in recent months and has retaken an estimated 40% of territory the militants held last year.
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes have retaken an air base from ISIS near Mosul, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday.
Since eastern Mosul was retaken, satellite dishes have begun to mushroom again on the rooftops, allowing residents to track the advances of Iraqi forces in western Mosul.
Assad's forces have retaken most of the territory in the country, according to Reuters, and Assad is actively seeking the resumption of diplomatic ties with nearby nations.
The SDF has advanced to within kilometres of the river, while the Syrian army has retaken much of the city, most of it on the western side.
The poll results come as Democrats have retaken the majority in the House with a caucus that contains a number of high-profile progressives, such as Rep.
Hit, which spent a year and a half under the extremists' control, was retaken in April by Iraqi forces who quickly returned most residents to their homes.
Rebels there are running out of arms and ammunition as the government, backed by Russia, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, has slowly retaken supply routes.
Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city, was captured by the Sunni Muslim fighters in 2014, but government forces have retaken much of it during a six-month operation.
There have been reports of government forces detaining or summarily killing people in retaken areas, and of rebel snipers shooting civilians trying to reach the government side.
Iraqi security forces have retaken most of east Mosul, with the help of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes which flattened rows of buildings in Iraq's second-largest city.
American officials have sought to allay those concerns by noting the force is half Arab and saying it will hand over retaken areas to civilian local councils.
The Syrian army said on Thursday it had retaken the ancient city from Islamic State for the second time in a year, with help from allied forces.
Since then, the government in Damascus has retaken all of the city of Aleppo, and is slowly pushing into the few remaining rebel enclaves, including Eastern Ghouta.
I am pleased to report that the coalition to defeat ISIS has retaken almost 100% of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria.
"It is not yet clear how the post was hit, maybe because of wrong coordinates as the post was abandoned yesterday and retaken today," Mr. Shakir said.
As the city was being retaken, Syria's head of antiquities, Mamoun Abdelkarim, told Reuters that Syria hoped to restore stolen artifacts and reconstruct what had been destroyed.
"The villages we've retaken so far we did without support," he said over the roar of an outgoing shell fired from a militia position outside the town.
Key bridge retaken On Monday, the army reported it has recaptured a bridge across the Tigris River in west Mosul, where fierce battles are ongoing to oust ISIS.
That fighting is already intensifying now that Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, has retaken his pre-Trump position as Breitbart's chair, a top editorial position.
Abadi ordered the prosecution of anyone found circulating fake videos aimed at inciting strife between Kurds and Arabs and endangering civil peace in areas retaken by Baghdad's forces.
Since the beginning of the Russian intervention in September 2015, Assad has steadily retaken territory; major rebel strongholds, like the city of Aleppo, have fallen to regime forces.
I am pleased to the support that the coalition to defeat ISIS has retaken almost 100% of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria.
Provincial police spokesman Sanaullah Rohani said Kohistan district, which fell to the insurgents on Thursday, was retaken by army and police forces backed by air support on Saturday.
The city is still home to tens of thousands of civilians and has been under Islamic State rule longer than any other territory recently retaken by Iraqi forces.
Turkey has been demanding the withdrawal of U.S.-backed Kurdish forces from the city, which was retaken from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2016.
Turkey has been demanding the withdrawal of U.S.-backed Kurdish forces from the city, which was retaken from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 85033.
In areas retaken from Islamic State south of Mosul, locals have purged traces of their presence, razing or blowing up militants' homes and even digging up their graves.
Democrats have retaken a clear advantage over Republicans ahead of November's midterm elections on a generic House ballot, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Tuesday.
With the exception of Damascus's eastern suburbs and the northern city of Raqqa, all of Syria's major cities have been retaken by the regime or pro-regime militias.
In Washington, the U.S. military said that about 90 percent of Raqqa had been retaken from Islamic State but it expected the SDF to face pockets of resistance.
The Nigerian army, backed by its neighbors, has retaken most territory previously lost to Boko Haram jihadists, which have been staging a seven-year insurgency in the northeast.
Will it be retaken by the Bushes, their allies and clones and the claque of sinecured retainers who smothered the once-vibrant conservative movement of Buckley and Reagan?
The fighters took up positions in a disused residential complex and exchanged fire with army, police and Sunni tribal fighters charged with holding areas retaken from Islamic State.
I am pleased to report that the coalition to defeat ISIS has retaken almost 100 percent of the territory once held by these killers in Iraq and Syria.
Several surrounding villages and roads had already been retaken by the second day of the offensive, with a view to trapping the remaining militants in the city itself.
In France's 1-0 defeat of Nigeria, the only goal came on a retaken penalty by Wendie Renard; the initial penalty also had been awarded after V.A.R. review.
Although the army has retaken much of the territory initially lost to Boko Haram, large parts of the northeast, particularly in Borno state, remain under threat from the militants.
He formed a government-backed militia last year to arrest and interrogate suspected militants in areas retaken from IS but now intends to use it to secure heritage sites.
Norman Ricklefs, a former U.S. government adviser to the Iraqi interior and defense ministries, said the state has still not filled the void in most areas retaken from ISIS.
Dozens of civilians have been killed in bomb blasts in Baghdad since the start of the year and the militants have attacked security forces in areas retaken from them.
But with Iraqi forces having recaptured parts of Mosul since October, traders in Kurdish towns have been quick to start supplying shops that are opening again in retaken districts.
Raqqa served as the de facto capital of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate until it was retaken by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia alliance last October.
The town of Fallujah was retaken in the summer of 2016, but nine months later the mayor had still not returned to live there because of the insecure situation.
Many of the displaced have returned to their homes in areas retaken from Islamic State but some, like Saqr, have not yet been allowed to return by the authorities.
Accounts from Mosul are difficult to confirm since authorities have increasingly restricted international media access to the battlefronts and areas retaken from Islamic State in and around the city.
ISIS in Iraq Last December, Iraq's military declared that it had "fully liberated" all of Iraq of "ISIS terrorist gangs" and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
Speaking with reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said Iraqi forces had retaken over 125 square kilometers (48 square miles) from Islamic State since Sunday.
NATO is now training Iraqi officers in Jordan but hopes to move that training back into Iraq soon, perhaps if Falluja and Mosul are retaken from the Islamic State.
Garver said local Syrian forces backed by coalition airpower have retaken about half of the city but said it would take some time to capture the city from ISIS.
BAGHDAD, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State's stronghold in the country's northwest, the Iraqi military said in a statement on Sunday.
It's now just a question of when, not if, Mosul is retaken — which would effectively destroy ISIS's dream of creating an actual caliphate in Iraq for the foreseeable future.
But the fact that the Democrats' have retaken the House — and gained subpoena power with it — means that Mueller's findings are unlikely to be covered up at this point.
The Syrian government said it had retaken all of the provincial capital of Deir al-Zour, above, while Iraqi forces seized control of a crucial border crossing at Qaim.
Even as the group has lost territory in one part of its caliphate, it has retaken areas that were declared liberated and pushed into new parts of the world.
As the other high-income countries amply prove, America's problems can be solved if our democracy can be retaken from the corporate lobbies and the big money in politics.
She recalled Guam's history in World War II; it was seized by Japan in 1941 and retaken in 1944 after a battle that claimed 20,000 lives on both sides.
Elite counter-terrorism forces have retaken several districts just north of Intisar, but military officers say a heavy presence of civilians in built-up areas is slowing their troops' advance.
The government's accounts are difficult to confirm as the authorities have increasingly restricted foreign media's access to the battle fronts and areas retaken from Islamic State in and around Mosul.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's militant Islamist group al Shabaab has retaken a small town in the center of the country after it was abandoned by government troops, residents said on Saturday.
The supreme court, central bank and electricity and water authority headquarters were also retaken in what the commander described as a surprise attack that killed more than 130 ISIS fighters.
The LNA was in control of the former airport, LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari said, rejecting a claim by the Tripoli interior minister, Fathi Bashagha, that his forces had retaken it.
He almost certainly would have retaken Douma without using chemical weapons, and could likely have killed the same number of civilians with standard bombs without any kind of international uproar.
Scattered clashes have erupted in recent weeks as Iraqi forces have retaken disputed territory from the Kurds, part of a crisis sparked by last month&aposs Kurdish vote for independence.
Islamic State militants retreating from the military offensive have repeatedly shelled areas after they are retaken by the army, killing or wounding scores of residents fleeing in the opposite direction.
U.S.-backed forces in neighboring Iraq announced on Thursday they had retaken Mosul, Islamic State's largest stronghold and the twin capital, with Raqqa, of the "caliphate" it declared in 2014.
Shrinking caliphate: In Iraq and Syria the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Iraqi Special Forces — with the help of the U.S. military — have retaken an area the size of California.
And the regime-appointed governor of Deir Ezzor province, Mohammad Qaddur Ajnyyja, is reported to have told the Russian news outlet Sputnik that the Syrian army had retaken al-Bagaliyeh.
Assadi said the jihadists' defenses in eastern Mosul so far appeared to be weaker than they had been in Ramadi, the western city retaken by Iraqi forces late last year.
Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera, a military spokesman, said on Thursday that the army had retaken higher ground to the east of the city, reducing the enemy's field of fire.
SIGAR also issued an unusually bleak assessment claiming that much of the nearly $6900 billion the U.S. has spent on programs to stabilize areas retaken from insurgents has been wasted.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kurdish Peshmerga forces "will not retreat from areas retaken" from Islamic State militants in Iraq, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said on Wednesday, according to local Rudaw TV station.
Gulf-backed fighters showed a cameraman working for CNN the external reaches of the city's airport, a matter of hours after they claimed to have retaken it from the Houthis.
BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013.
Several times last year, officials announced the beginning of the liberation of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, but the city was not retaken until the end of the year.
Many people in Salahuddin and Diyala Provinces, which were retaken from the Islamic State last year, were barred from returning to their homes and forced to live in makeshift camps.
Tens of thousands of rebels and civilians took refuge in Idlib after abandoning their homes in other parts of western Syria that the government and its foreign allies have retaken.
In areas the government has recently retaken, like this one south of Aleppo, it has placed posters of President Bashar al-Assad amid rubble and handed out Syrian government flags.
The Philippine Army said on Sunday that it had retaken most of the southern city of Marawi, a predominantly Muslim city of about 200,000 people, from the ISIS-linked militants.
Some thought they should remain, because in other rebel areas retaken by the government, homes had been stripped bare by looters and some dwellings had been taken by government supporters.
By the numbers: Former Vice President Joe Biden has retaken the lead in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, with 20203% of Democratic and independent voters who lean Democratic backing him.
In 2017, he was ousted as leader of his party, but just a year later, he had not only retaken the helm of his party but also become prime minister.
In December 2017, the US-led coalition announced it had retaken about 97 percent of ISIS's territory in Iraq and Syria, including the so-called caliphate's capital in Raqqa. Gen.
Brigades based in the city of Misrata have advanced to the edge of Sirte from the west, and the PFG has retaken coastal territory from the jihadist group to the east.
Russian news agencies reported earlier on Thursday that the Syrian government had retaken full control of Douma as insurgents there withdrew, and that Russian military police were deploying in the town.
By the time Mr McMaster arrived there, the city had been overrun by insurgents and retaken bloodily by the Americans, but with too few American or Iraqi troops to control it.
Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani told a local TV station on Wednesday that his forces would not retreat from areas Kurdish troops had retaken from ISIS before the battle for Mosul began.
While this city has been retaken from ISIS, an estimated 150,000 civilians still remain trapped under its control in the Iraqi cities of Tal Afar, Hawija and areas of western Anbar.
By the time General McMaster arrived there, the city had been overrun by insurgents and retaken bloodily by the Americans, but with too few American or Iraqi troops to control it.
The army has retaken much of the territory that had been lost to the group, but large parts of the northeast, particularly in Borno state, remain under threat from the militants.
Government forces have retaken several cities in Anbar from Islamic State in the past six months and are still pressing up the Euphrates river valley towards the border town of Qaim.
Iraqi authorities have increasingly restricted the foreign news media's access to the battle fronts and areas retaken from Islamic State in and around Mosul, making it difficult to confirm their accounts.
Iraqi forces have retaken a third of the city east of the Tigris river, but the assault has slowed in recent days as the Iraqi forces entered Mosul's densely packed streets.
The army offensive began a month ago with a massive bombardment and has so far retaken most of the area, the biggest rebel enclave near Damascus, cutting it into three zones.
Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition have retaken most of the city but are struggling to dislodge the militants from several districts in the west, including the Old City.
The JoBros, Kevin, 31, Joe, 29, and Nick, 26, have officially retaken the throne as the reigning kings of pop after an extended hiatus full of solo careers (and family strife).
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near a restaurant in the busy city center of Manbij, a town in northern Syria that was retaken from ISIS in 22019.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army said it had retaken Aleppo completely and brought "security and safety" back to the city, as the last group of rebel fighters were evacuated on Thursday.
White House officials have privately said they hope that both places can be retaken before President Obama leaves office, although the Pentagon has not given specifics about how that might happen.
When that territory was nearly entirely retaken by the US and its Iraqi allies in 2009, AQI leadership regrouped, reforming as a terrorist organization and ultimately reemerging as ISIS in 2013.
The Democrats had retaken the Senate in the 1986 midterm elections, meaning that a fading Reagan administration, weighed down by the Iran-contra scandal, had lost the opportunity for legislative accomplishment.
Since then, Syrian forces and their Russian and Iranian allies have retaken the other three "de-escalation zones" from the rebels and Assad has vowed to regain all of Idlib too.
US President Donald Trump suggested last Wednesday that ISIS's defeat was imminent, adding that a formal announcement declaring "100% of the caliphate" retaken would be made sometime in the coming week.
Al Bab is one of the largest urban areas in central northern Syria, after Aleppo, the city retaken from rebel groups by Syrian forces, with Russian help, nearly two months ago.
Democrats may have retaken control of the House, but Tuesday's midterms also showed that Donald Trump's 2016 election wasn't a fluke — and that his supporters will show up to vote for Republicans.
It holds sway across large tracts, particularly in the rural south and east where it has retaken territory lost during the "surge" of 2009-12, when NATO could call on 130,000 troops.
In Syria, the forces of Bashar Al-Assad have retaken Palmyra with the help of Russian military might and in the north the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are steadily gaining ground.
About 67 percent of the returns this year have been to Aleppo province - where the rebel-held eastern part of the city was retaken by the Syrian government in December - IOM said.
The commander of the operation blamed the slow pace on a lack of tanks and said he did not have enough men to hold ground after it was retaken from the militants.
The al Qaeda militants briefly took control of the camp in the village of Al Mahfad in southern Abyan governorate before it was retaken hours later by Yemeni forces, the sources said.
In a video message posted to Operation Inherent Resolve's official Facebook page, Army Lieutenant General Paul Funk reported that coalition forces have retaken 85033,000 square miles of land from the terrorist group.
Idlib's population has been swollen by thousands of Syrian fighters and their families evacuated from villages and towns around Damascus and Aleppo city, which was retaken by the government in recent months.
If you find this situation alarming — and you should — take a minute to imagine how much worse things would be if the Democrats had not retaken control of the House of Representatives.
President Bashar al-Assad has retaken most of the country with the help of Russia and Iran, although armed rebels and Kurdish militias backed by the United States still hold significant territory.
The military said it had retaken a crucial piece of territory in the city and found the body of a Singaporean fighter, a sign of reinforcements of extremists from around the region.
Both sides are waging a war of attrition as government forces, who have retaken most of east Mosul over the past three months, prepare to push into the west of the city.
Three penalty kicks have already been retaken and converted at this tournament after reviews by the video assistant referee, which is being used at the Women's World Cup for the first time.
A Friday sermon was also broadcast live on state television from the main mosque in Ramadi, the western capital retaken from Islamic State insurgents about a month ago following a six-month siege.
"After the death of my brother, if we had had the $65 billion some people said we had, we would have retaken Iran just like that," she told The Associated Press in 1983.
Evacuations have gone on for more than a week as government forces have retaken the vast majority of eastern Aleppo, which rebels held for more than four years after the Arab Spring uprising.
In the Deraa town of Um al-Mayaden, retaken by the army, dozens of people chanted in support of Assad and the army during a government-organized trip on Tuesday, a witness said.
The Iraqi government has retaken several major cities from Islamic State in the past year, including the western cities of Ramadi and Hit, and slowly pushed the militants back towards the Syrian border.
Obama often touts successes on the ground in Iraq and Syria as evidence of a successful anti-ISIS campaign, but officials worry that retaken ground could be lost without an influx of resources.
The Trump administration's decision to withdraw troops has been heavily criticized on Capitol Hill for increasing the possibility of a resurgence of ISIS forces in areas previously retaken by a U.S.-backed coalition.
The Syrian military source said the pro-government forces had completely retaken the al-Minian district and had advanced in the neighboring Dahiyet al-Assad district, both on the western edge of Aleppo.
Vice President Joe Biden told the Kurds they would have to stay east of the Euphrates river, and withdraw from the Syrian town of Manbij -- which was retaken from ISIS with US assistance.
Three penalties have been retaken at the World Cup because the goalkeeper did not have at least one foot on the goalline, sparking a debate about whether VAR should rule on the matter.
Since the offensive began 10 weeks ago, U.S.-backed forces have retaken a quarter of Mosul in the biggest ground operation in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
They cite abuses in Sunni cities retaken from Islamic State, like the looting in Tikrit last year and reports of torture, revenge killings and kidnappings in Falluja, a historic jihadist stronghold near Baghdad.
Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq, was captured by Islamic State in mid-2014, but government forces have retaken most of it, including the half that lies east of the Tigris River.
The United Nations has voiced concern at reports that civilians, mainly Kurds, were being driven out of parts of northern Iraq retaken by Iraqi forces and their houses and businesses looted and destroyed.
We have challenges internationally, but our most immediate challenge with respect to ISIL, we're seeing significant progress in Iraq, and Mosul is now increasingly being retaken by Iraqi security forces supported by us.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan forces backed by air strikes have retaken a district in the northern province of Badakhshan that was seized last week by Taliban insurgents, officials said, as fighting continued across Afghanistan.
In October 2017, two months before Iraq declared victory over Islamic State, the countries established the Iraqi-Saudi Joint Coordination Council, to help rebuild devastated areas retaken from the Islamist militants in Iraq.
Sunday's blast came as fighting has spread across Afghanistan, with government officials saying that a district in the northern province of Badakhshan which was seized by Taliban fighters last week had been retaken.
President Bashar al-Assad has retaken control of most of Syrian territory, and experts said there is almost no chance that rebel groups will topple him or change the course of the war.
Idlib now holds the largest patch of rebel-held territory in Syria, and officials in the region assume that once Mr. Assad has retaken the south, he will turn his guns to Idlib.
Nadim Houry, a Syria expert at Human Rights Watch, said that the evacuation agreement resembled similar deals to evacuate rebels and their relatives from areas in Syria after the government had retaken them.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has retaken the lead in the poll after an autumn that saw him surrender his solid frontrunner status, climbing 235 points to earn 243 percent in the poll.
While some claim banishing IS from Mosul would be "mission complete," there are worries that U.S. and Iraqi forces may not be able to maintain peace in the city if it is retaken.
France snatched a 1-0 win against Nigeria after the VAR stepped in to rule that Wendie Renard's missed spotkick should be retaken because keeper Chiamaka Nnadozie had partially moved off her line.
As of Wednesday morning, the Syrian army had retaken the key area of al-Shaar and most of the neighborhoods in the old city, including Agheour, al-Farafrah and Bab al-Hadeed, they said.
Since Russia's entry turned the tide in 2015 President Bashar al-Assad's favor, the government has gradually retaken much of the country, including its major cities, though large areas still remain outside its control.
The loss follows Taliban pressure last week on the northern province of Badakhshan, where the insurgents took control of a district center and have been battling government forces who claimed to have retaken it.
At the same time, US troops are training and advising Afghan security forces that suffer heavy casualties and severe recruitment problems in the face of a resurgent Taliban that has retaken some key districts.
In what was seen as a dramatic publicity stunt, the Russian government flew in an orchestra to play a three-piece concert in the ancient amphitheatre just six weeks after the city was retaken.
Since its offensive in June, Syrian President Bashar Assad&aposs forces have retaken territories controlled by the rebels along the Golan Heights frontier and are now fighting militants in the country&aposs southern tip.
Since their offensive in June, Syrian President Bashar Assad&aposs forces have retaken territories controlled by the rebels along the Golan Heights frontier and are now fighting militants in the country&aposs southern tip.
Sabah al-Numani, a CTS spokesman, said on state television that snipers holed up inside the hospital, considered a nest of militants, were resisting but the facility was expected to be retaken within hours.
"ISIS is on the run and they have been shown to be unable to stand up to our team, have not retaken one inch of ground," he told reporters during a briefing in Bagdhad.
On Thursday, three vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) claimed by Islamic State went off in Kokjali, an eastern suburb that the authorities said they had retaken from the jihadists almost two months ago.
While Trump briefly led Clinton in RealClearPolitics's averages of both the one-on-one and four-way races in the aftermath of the Republican National Convention, Clinton has retaken the lead after her convention.
The U.S. general in charge of coalition forces organized against the Islamic State said Monday that while most of the terrorist group's territory hasd been retaken, the group's hateful ideology remains a global threat.
Yazda, a Yazidi rights group based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, began discovering and cataloguing the sites as part of its genocide documentation last year after Sinjar was retaken by Kurdish forces.
The army has retaken much of the territory once held by Boko Haram, yet the group continues to carry out bombings and raids in northeast Nigeria, as well as in Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
It documented 11 cases of what it termed "arbitrary detention and disappearance" of people who had signed the agreements last year in areas retaken by the government from rebels, among hundreds of other arrests.
Assisted by allies Russia and Iran, the forces of Mr. Assad, 52, a former eye doctor, have retaken wide swaths of Syria that had been lost to a mix of insurgents and Islamist extremists.
There was little the minister could do but look on helplessly as the night wore on, with temperatures well below freezing, until morning came and authorities claimed they had retaken control of the hotel.
Over the past month, Taliban insurgents also took the districts of Taiwara, in the western province of Ghor, and Kohistan in Faryab Province, but government forces have since retaken both, according to local officials.
Women hang laundry on balconies and men chat at the few shops that have reopened in the Zahra district of eastern Mosul since it was retaken more than a week ago by Iraqi forces.
The report also said that when it came time to take class photos, Byrd instructed the cadets to use the gesture, and insisted the photo be retaken several times to ensure everyone made it.
That means both remaining Starks would be rejoining Jon and Sansa, who we left last season in the newly retaken Stark castle— just as winter officially arrived on the wings of a white raven.
Nigeria's army has retaken much of the territory once occupied by Boko Haram, and a military coalition of regional neighbors has helped fight the Islamist insurgents across the borders in Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
"Trained and supported by an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Yemeni government forces and resistance fighters have retaken Mukalla and continue their offensive against AQAP in eastern Yemen," Davis said.
When Fallujah, Raqqa, or Mosul are retaken from ISIS, humanitarian workers like the IRC's are next to enter the scene, providing life-saving assistance and laying the groundwork for recovery, cohesion, government stability, and responsiveness.
Iraq's military says it has retaken the eastern side of Mosul from the Islamic State group, a critical milestone in its battle to drive the terror organization from the country's second-largest city. Lt.-Gen.
The army has retaken most of the territory initially lost to the militants but attacks and suicide bombings by the group have made it nearly impossible for displaced persons to return to their recaptured hometowns.
A recording circulated on social media and on the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network on Saturday perpetrating to show police officers summarily executing three unarmed men in a district of Mosul retaken from Islamic State.
China views democratic Taiwan as a renegade province to be retaken with the use of force if necessary, and says other countries and international organizations should not recognize or treat it as a separate country.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military said on Thursday it had retaken the remote western town of Rutba from Islamic State in an operation launched this week to cut off the militants' supply route to neighboring Syria.
That highlights a serious risk: If and when Mosul is retaken, the Kurdish forces, Shia paramilitaries, and Sunni tribal fighters could find themselves fighting each other for control of the city and its surrounding areas.
The freshly-paved camp is officially a base for the mining crews that cleared thousands of explosive devices from Palmyra and the surrounding towns over the past weeks since the city was retaken from ISIS.
The Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, have retaken six villages in total since attacking Islamic State positions on Sunday with the support of the U.S.-led coalition, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said on Monday.
Since al-Abadi took office two years ago, Iraqi forces have retaken more than half of the territory IS held at the height of its power, when the militants' controlled a third of the country.
ET on Tuesday, and it will likely be hours later before we first get a real sense of whether the Democrats have retaken the House and the Republicans have held onto control of the Senate.
Syria&aposs military says it has retaken the last neighborhoods in southern Damascus held by the Islamic State group and is declaring the capital and its surroundings "completely safe" and free of any militant presence.
KABUL, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have retaken a district in the north of the country, killing 30 Taliban fighters and capturing vehicles and weapons from the insurgents, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
"I would tell you this: If the stock market is a forward-looking mechanism, the stock market is telling you it doesn't matter if the House of Representatives is retaken by the Democrats," he said.
This huge area of Syria, roughly the size of West Virginia, was retaken by arming and training members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and sending 28503,22019 U.S. soldiers, as well as using air power.
United States-backed forces in Syria have retaken the strategic Syrian city of Tabqa, as well as a nearby dam and airfield, from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Pentagon confirmed Thursday.
One group of Islamist militants, the Nusra Front, has also been leading an offensive south of Aleppo and has retaken some of the territory that Syrian government forces seized with the help of Russian airstrikes.
Iraqi government forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition have now retaken the eastern half of the city - letting regional councillors return for the first time in 2-7383/2 years to survey the damage.
The masters have retaken Astapor and Yunkai, and the dragons are not eating, prompting the following conundrum: If a dragon does not want to eat, how do you force him or her to chow down?
Even after ISIS's Iraqi holdings are retaken, the formerly ISIS controlled areas need to be rebuilt — and the sectarian tensions that gave rise to ISIS in the first place need to be addressed as well.
Wolf also drew nonpartisan maps for the 2012 race, using the same criteria that California's nonpartisan redistricting commission uses, and found that Democrats would have retaken the House that year if nonpartisan maps were used.
Photos posted by SANA showed several vehicles and a small number of troops in Tal Tamr, a predominantly Assyrian Christian town that was once held by IS before it was retaken by Kurdish-led forces.
Since resuming the offensive last week, the counter-terrorism service, rapid response division and federal police have retaken several eastern districts - despite fierce resistance - and joined flanks in areas that had been vulnerable to attack.
Even once the city is finally retaken, meanwhile, the military victory in Raqqa means the fight against the group will shift to a counterterror one conducted in nations around the world, including the United States.
Five farmers in Raqqa described how they sold wheat to Katerji's traders during Islamic State rule in interviews at the building housing the Raqqa Civil Council, formed to take over once the city is retaken.
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have retaken around 70 percent of eastern Mosul from Islamic State militants and expect to reach the river bisecting the city in the coming days, Iraq's joint operations commander told Reuters.
"These drones were found in one of the houses (retaken by the army)," Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saidi of Iraq's U.S.-trained Counter Terrorism Service told reporters at a military headquarters in a Mosul suburb.
China still considers Taiwan a renegade province to be retaken by force if necessary after nationalist forces fled there in 1949 at the end of a civil war with the Communists that has never formally ended.
Putin's Syria visit came two days after the Iraqi military said in a statement that it had "fully liberated" all of Iraq's territory of "ISIS terrorist gangs" and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, have retaken all of Mosul, once the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) stronghold in the country, the U.S.-led coalition and Iraq's prime minister said Monday.
Later in the book, he examines post–Cold War politics in Lithuania and the other two Baltic states, Latvia and Estonia (which had been retaken and annexed by the Soviet Union later in World War II).
WASHINGTON — Clashes are continuing with Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria, United States military officials said on Friday after the White House claimed that American-backed forces had retaken the extremist group's final sliver of territory.
The five-day siege of Ghazni, which eased on Wednesday as Afghan officials declared that they had retaken full control of the city, left 165 Afghan police officers and soldiers and at least 40 civilians dead.
About a quarter of the country would still be outside government control, and its hold in many of the areas it has retaken is tentative at best, with armed insurgents still capable of making smaller strikes.
While the resistance by foreign fighters in Raqqa has been fierce — roughly half the city has been retaken and the hardest combat may lie ahead — the city no longer functions as the capital of the caliphate.
More than six months after Sinjar was retaken from Islamic State militants, a small group of North American Mennonite volunteers is the only permanent humanitarian presence in this ghost town at the foot of Mount Sinjar.
Now, Amazon has retaken first place with an $810 billion market cap, Microsoft is a close second at $795 billion, Alphabet is in third place at $747 billion and Apple is trailing the pack at $730 billion.
"As territory is retaken from the criminal and terrorist gangs of Daesh [also known as ISIS], evidence of the heinous crimes they have committed continues to be uncovered," Jan Kubiš told the U.N. Security Council on Friday.
The situation contrasts with last year's operations to flush IS from Fallujah and Ramadi, west of Baghdad, which suffered much greater damage, and where many civilians still languished in camps six months after the cities were retaken.
There are currently roughly 5,000 US troops in Iraq as the fight against the Islamic State has wound down, with most of the mission focused on training and clearing parts of the country retaken from ISIS militants.
A VAR review then confirmed Aldana Cometti was brought down in the 87th minute, but Bonsegundo's poor penalty was initially saved only for the referee to call for the kick to be retaken after consulting the VAR.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - East Libyan forces said on Thursday they had retaken the shuttered oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, hours after clashes resumed south of Ras Lanuf during a counter-attack by rival factions.
"Many people favor it (peace) at any price... For me that's absolutely unacceptable," said Alexei Pichakhchi, who moved from rebel-controlled Donetsk to Slovyansk, a city retaken by government forces during a major rebel retreat in 2014.
In Iraq they are battling for control of Tal Afar, a city between Mosul and Iraq's western border with Syria which - if retaken - would allow Iran nearly unfettered military access all the way to the Mediterranean sea.
Al-Nuaimi is one of the handful of journalists who stayed inside IS-held Mosul until the eastern side was retaken by the Iraqi Army in late January 20173, CPJ found during a recent visit to Iraq.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have retaken around 30 percent of west Mosul from Islamic State militants, a commander of the elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said on Sunday, as soldiers pushed further into the jihadists' territory.
Votel's input: On Tuesday, Votel said he expects the physical territory of ISIS to be entirely retaken by the time U.S. forces withdraw but warned that does not mean the fight against the group will be over.
The law adds that if a goalkeeper commits an offence, the kick must be retaken and the keeper cautioned but the IFAB relaxed its rules on bookings during shootouts following a request from global governing body FIFA.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he was no longer interested in peace talks with Maoist-led guerrillas and planned to hunt down the insurgents once the military has retaken a southern city from Islamist rebels.
Besides working with a Kurdish-led militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces to fight the Islamic State, the United States is helping restore areas like the city of Raqqa that were recently retaken from the jihadists.
At the end of Part Two of the book, it's the summer of 1944, the United States military has just retaken Guam and Dot Braden is feeling optimistic that the Allies are doing well in the Pacific.
Across the border in Syria, the Assad regime, backed by Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and an array of militias, has retaken most of the country, including many eastern areas that the United States has identified as strategically important.
Turkish artillery on Tuesday pounded suspected Syrian Kurdish positions near the town in northeast Syria amid reports that Kurdish fighters had retaken the town as Turkey pressed ahead with a military incursion that has drawn widespread condemnation.
Around them were dozens of other civilians who have been wounded in areas of Mosul since they were retaken from Islamic State by Iraqi forces trying to dislodge the militants from their largest urban stronghold in Iraq.
ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking after his fifth visit to Syria, said the aid agency was stepping up work to restore the water, health and power infrastructure in areas retaken by the government, to which civilians are returning.
Two civilians were killed when they returned to the Islah al-Ziraei district days after it was retaken by Iraqi forces when they accidentally triggered a bomb that Islamic State had planted to prevent them leaving their home.
Since Baghdadi proclaimed the caliphate stretching across Iraq and Syria in 2014, Iraqi forces have retaken a string of cities in western and northern Iraq including Mosul, where Baghdadi made his announcement from the city's El Nuri mosque.
BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church.
And almost a week later, Falluja's neighborhoods have been retaken and cleared of any ISIS presence, with only al-Jolan in the northeast -- about 10% to 15% of the city -- yet to be liberated, according to Brig. Gen.
Related: Inside Taza, the Iraqi Town Gassed by the Islamic State Eight villages had been retaken by Friday, according to the international coalition, but Peshmerga leaders and a number of Iraqi soldiers said several of those remained contested.
FORCES RETAKE TABQA: United States-backed forces in Syria have retaken the strategic Syrian city of Tabqa, as well as a nearby dam and airfield, from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Pentagon confirmed Thursday.
The Helmand district of Nawa was retaken last week by Afghan National Security Forces, yet at about the same time nearby Gereshk district was attacked by the Taliban, with multiple checkpoints hit, and at one point six overrun.
Local witnesses and military sources said forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar had retaken oil storage tanks and Ras Lanuf airstrip, and that Es Sider port was under military control as clashes continued and troops advanced west.
Batchelder said the fight against Islamic State is starting to bear fruit, with estimates showing the U.S. military and coalition partners in 64 countries have retaken about 45 percent of the land formerly controlled by the militant group.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Wednesday its U.S.-backed military campaign against Islamic State had retaken around two-thirds of the territory seized by the militants in their lightning sweep across the country's north and west in 2014.
After Palmyra was retaken, the statement says, he was reassigned to Tabqa Dam to improve ISIS' defense against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab fighters that are supported by the U.S.-led coalition.
Since the offensive began 10 weeks ago, U.S.-backed forces have retaken a quarter of the jihadists' last major stronghold in Iraq in the biggest ground operation there since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
After a six-month campaign of street-by-street fighting backed by American airstrikes, Libyan forces have retaken most of Surt, where the Islamic State is holding out with snipers, booby traps and car bombs, Mr. Issa said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Tuesday that it could only confirm that about 90 percent of the Syrian city of Raqqa had been retaken from Islamic State militants, even as U.S.-backed forces declared victory there.
In parts of Aleppo, the country's second largest city, retaken by government forces a year ago, the municipal water supply is still broken, requiring the International Committee of the Red Cross to truck in water, an expensive process.
By midday Monday, Anglin had posted on the Daily Stormer that he had "retaken control" of the site from Anonymous — indicating that he already found new hosting and was thus able to post new content to the site.
Major General Najm Abdullah al-Jubbouri, who is in charge of the offensive, said that Iraqi forces were now waiting for the arrival of federal police units and additional local tribal fighters to hold territory after it is retaken.
It now holds sway across large areas, particularly in the rural south and east where it has retaken territory lost during the NATO "surge" that took place from 29 to 2012, when 130,000 troops were stationed in the country.
"We had said 98% […] but as we've seen ISIS start to resurge in areas west of the Euphrates River, we'll just keep it at well over 90% of the territory that ISIS used to have has been retaken," Col.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' military chief vowed no letup on Monday in hunting down and destroying extremist groups loyal to Islamic State, saying Marawi City would be retaken within days after the pivotal killing of two top rebel commanders.
Irbil, Iraq (CNN)The bodies of between 1,300 and 1,500 members of the Yazidi minority have been discovered near the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar since it was retaken from ISIS in 2015, a Kurdish official told CNN Tuesday.
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have retaken most eastern districts of the city and are preparing to push into the western part of Mosul, the largest city held by Islamic State across its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
The strikes have escalated in the last week on this major front with at least 50 villages retaken by the Syrian army and its allies in their push into the last major province in rebel hands that borders Turkey.
The Syrian army said it had retaken complete control of Aleppo on Thursday after the last rebel fighters were evacuated from the battered city, handing President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory of the nearly six-year-old war.
The Russians have also demonstrated a canny understanding of Syrian sensitivities — dispatching military policemen from Russia's predominantly Sunni Muslim Chechnya region, for example, to negotiate rebel withdrawals and keep the peace in Sunni areas retaken by Mr. Assad's side.
Gul Agha Sherzai, the warlord who had retaken the province with the help of the C.I.A. and Special Forces, had been the governor; his brother Abdul Raziq was a general in the Afghan Army, in charge of the airport.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sending a civilian team into Syria to try to bring stability to areas that American-backed forces have retaken from the Islamic State and to avert a humanitarian crisis, according to United States officials.
About 25 Islamic State-held villages and towns have been retaken in the first week of the offensive, bringing the Iraqi and Kurdish forces closer to the edge of the city itself - where the battle will be hardest fought.
Fighting in the Syrian civil war, which is about to enter its seventh year, has declined in recent weeks, partly because of a tenuous cease-fire negotiated by Russia and Turkey when Aleppo was retaken by Mr. Assad's forces.
Without decisive Western pressure to halt the offensive, eastern Ghouta appears on course to meet the same fate as other rebel areas retaken by Assad, such as eastern Aleppo, recovered using similar tactics of siege, bombardment and ground assaults.
Rodolfo Biazon, a former lawmaker and military chief, said that after Marawi is retaken, the government should seek more than a military solution and try to stop rebels from regrouping, by targeting recruitment and tackling radical ideology at the grassroots level.
Report alleges Kurds destroyed Arab homes The latest comments follow the release of a report this week by Human Rights Watch that accused Iraqi Kurdish forces of unlawfully targeting and destroying Arab homes in regions they have retaken from ISIS fighters.
Since the offensive to capture Mosul began 0003 weeks ago, U.S.-backed forces have retaken a quarter of the jihadists' last major stronghold in Iraq in the biggest ground operation there since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Yet even when Mosul is retaken in its entirety, ISIS will continue to wreak havoc in Iraq as an insurgent group, Knights said, maintaining a presence in ungoverned stretches of the country and launching terror attacks on major government-held cities.
The two leaders also discussed how to enhance and strengthen cooperation between their countries, and the Iraqi-Saudi Joint Coordination Council, a body created last October to improve strategic relations and help rebuild devastated areas retaken from Islamist militants in Iraq.
They've retaken the entire solar system, while the crew of the Rocinante have fled and begun their own action to take down the Laconia's empire — all while the ancient threat that took out the gate makers looms between the stars.
Misfits took the point and nearly won but EnVyUs took it back, having it challenged and retaken by Misfits, only to lose it when Misfits' Soon didn't stay on the point, giving the round to EnVyUs for a 1-1 score.
Residents have been suffering from acute shortages of food and medicine for months, since supply routes into the city were cut off by government forces when the nearby city of Ramadi was retaken in December, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
The Mexican government said it had retaken control of the border crossing after nearly 500 migrants tried to cross the U.S. border "in a violent manner," and vowed to immediately deport Central Americans who attempt to enter the United States illegally.
The latter caused debate when France's Wendie Renard hit the post with her spot-kick against Nigeria, only for it to be reviewed and ordered to be retaken after goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie was judged to have come off her line.
But during Trump's address Wednesday to the 79-member global coalition to defeat ISIS, he announced that all territory has been retaken from ISIS will come as soon as next week, checking off one of the two boxes for withdrawal.
But the Northern Lords don't know this in the same way that we do, much as no one but Bran knows that Jon is Dany's nephew, and much like Arya Stark had no idea that the Starks had retaken Winterfell.
Rebels have waged their own battles against the Islamic State north of Aleppo, taking advantage of the respite from government attacks to battle the extremists, but a town they seized near the Turkish border was retaken by the Islamic State.
Additionally, the Trump White House has retaken the regional initiative with our allies and partners, the most important event being the president's Riyadh speech which openly called for our Arab and Muslim partners to directly tackle the extremists in their countries.
And while the Nigerian-led effort has retaken a significant number of villages that were under Boko Haram control, the authorities have been less successful sustaining security, allowing fighters to continue to raid the very villages recaptured by government forces.
Beijing (CNN)The Democrats have retaken the US House of Representatives, dealing a major blow to President Donald Trump's domestic agenda, but if anxious politicians in Beijing think that means a reprieve from the White House, they should think again.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it had secured $300 million from coalition partners to help stabilize parts of Syria retaken from Islamic State, after President Donald Trump demanded that allies help carry the costs of the war.
On Saturday, Syrian State TV trumpeted that Assad's forces had successfully retaken a village which overlooks insurgent-held towns surrounding Aleppo, the civil war's front line, as part of their ongoing strategy to encircle and reclaim the key northern city.
The group seized Palmyra from government forces for a second time last month, a reversal for Assad just eight months after he had retaken control of the city and its world heritage site with the help of the Russian air force.
The United Nations voiced concern at reports that civilians, mainly Kurds, were being driven out of parts of northern Iraq retaken by Iraqi forces and their houses and businesses looted and destroyed, and urged Baghdad to stop any such abuses.
Mamoun Abdelkarim told Reuters he hoped Palmyra would be retaken within days, after government forces fought their way into the western and northern parts of the city, and promised to revive the Roman-era monuments "as a message against terrorism".
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army said it had retaken complete control of Aleppo on Thursday after the last rebel fighters were evacuated from the battered city, handing President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory of the nearly six-year-old war.
More than two years after the militants took over Mosul and proclaimed a caliphate for all Muslims, Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition have retaken the eastern half of the city, and now have the west in their sights.
The VAR, however, judged the keeper was off her line and the kick was retaken, with Bonsegundo scoring at the second time of asking to send Scotland home and keep her side's faint hopes of reaching the last 16 alive.
Almost three weeks into the operation, Iraqi forces have retaken just three villages from Islamic State in the Makhmour area, which is set to be a key staging ground for a future assault on Mosul, around 60 km (40 miles) further north.
Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed in 4003 to set up four "de-escalation zones" to stem fighting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels, but the Syrian army has retaken three of those areas and is now advancing in the fourth.
In around two weeks, the Syrian army has retaken nearly all the farmland in the enclave east of Damascus under cover of near-ceaseless shelling and air strikes, leaving only a dense sprawl of towns - about half the territory - still under insurgent control.
DAVOS, Switzerland — Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq privately asked Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter this week for additional help training Iraqi police forces used to secure cities that have been retaken from the Islamic State, senior Defense Department officials said.
The provincial capital in the fertile Euphrates River valley west of Baghdad is the biggest city to have been recaptured from Islamic State, and the first retaken by Iraq's army since it collapsed in the path of the militants' advance 18 months ago.
He was later contradicted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said the SDF had retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by IS. Bali said the final batch of civilians had been evacuated from Baghouz on Friday ahead of renewed military activity.
When it launched the offensive in October, the government hoped to have retaken the city by the end of 2016 but Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in December it could now take another three months to drive the militants out.
The dam was retaken by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters with the help of U.S.-led coalition air strikes, and Iraq signed a 273 million euro (around $300 million), 18-month deal with Trevi to reinforce and maintain the 3.6 km-long (2.2 miles) structure.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi courts have sentenced 212 people to death in Mosul and surrounding areas, most of them for complicity with Islamic State, since the area was retaken by Iraqi forces in July and August 2017, a judiciary spokesman said on Wednesday.
While voters were primarily concerned with terrorism after attacks in Europe and San Bernardino, the economy has since retaken its place as the main issue that the electorate cares about; why is military experience (and the fascist-sounding "fear factor" language) so important?
Shahine on Monday prepared a tent to accommodate the rest of his family, which he said would soon arrive from the western countryside of Aleppo, where government forces have retaken large swathes of land from rebels at a rapid clip in recent weeks.
Syrian armed forces appear to have retaken the contested Barada Valley area north of Damascus, the capital's main source of water, signaling a possible end to a war-induced shortage that has left millions of inhabitants thirsty and dirty for six weeks.
Washington (CNN)The President's top national security adviser said Sunday that the threat of ISIS still remains and could undergo a resurgence, despite Donald Trump's declaration that US backed forces have retaken "100%" of the territory once claimed by ISIS in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization that reports on the war, said the SDF had made advances on Sunday in the south of the city, and had also retaken ground lost in an Islamic State counterattack on Friday.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump declared Thursday that US backed forces have retaken 100% of the territory once claimed by ISIS in Syria, an announcement that surprised US officials and regional allies leading the fight who told CNN the battle isn't over.
The curfew prevents anyone from leaving or entering the city that was retaken by U.S.-backed militias last October, after a four-month battle that left thousands of civilians dead and most of its neighborhoods flattened in devastating U.S. led aerial strikes.
Democrats — who have just officially retaken control of the House — passed the two measures in order to fund 25 percent of the government that is currently shut down after lawmakers failed to a pass a set of seven appropriations bills in late December.
Les Bleues missed two penalties that were ordered to be retaken and were then converted in their 2-1 win against Norway and 1-0 victory over Nigeria because the goalkeepers had stepped off their line before the spot kicks were taken.
NPR reported in August — a year after Mosul had been retaken from ISIS — that the Iraqi government claimed it had no money for reconstruction, and that it was relying on private donations, of which it had received enough to rebuild 250 houses.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will withdraw assistance from northwest Syria dominated by Islamist factions and focus recovery efforts on areas where U.S.-led forces have retaken territory from Islamic State in the northeast, U.S. officials with knowledge of the decision said on Friday.
The plan calls for continued bombing; beefing up support and assistance to local forces to retake its Iraqi stronghold Mosul and ultimately the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria; drying up ISIS's sources of income; and stabilizing the areas retaken from ISIS, the officials say.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official from the Trump administration to visit the war-struck northern city months after it was retaken from Islamic State.
"One hundred percent this (training) is based on the lessons that we learned watching the challenges in Ramadi and Tikrit and Sinjar and Baiji where the enemy had obstacle belts," MacFarland told reporters this week, referring to cities retaken from IS in recent months.
In October, its self-proclaimed capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa fell to Kurdish forces; in early December, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that ISIS' territory in Iraq had been fully retaken, declaring victory in his country's war on the group.
BENGHAZI, Libya, June 21 (Reuters) - East Libyan forces said on Thursday they had rapidly retaken control of large areas of the shuttered oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, which they retreated from a week ago in the face of an armed attack.
This is an opinion piece by Jessica Wanless, Senior Communications Manager, Iraq, International Rescue Committee In the northern city of Mosul, over 1.5 million people endured over three years of harsh ISIS rule – fully retaken on July 10 after nine months of ferocious fighting.
"Their fate is hell and the Syrian army pursues its operations step by step until the total liberation of the city," he told Reuters Television during a tour of areas of Deir al-Zor in Syria's east recently retaken by the military and its allies.
"Xi's call to Hong Kong as the One Country, Two Systems experiment I think shows what an ideal 'unification' looks like from Beijing's perspective: put Taiwan in a position that allows some autonomy still, but slowly erode it until it is retaken completely," Nachman said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces backed by U.S. air strikes have retaken a southern district from the Taliban as part of a drive to weaken the insurgents' hold on Helmand province and push them back from around its capital, Lashkar Gah, officials said on Monday.
The fight to take the western side of Mosul, which remains under the jihadists' control, should not be more difficult than the one on the eastern side, Lieutenant-General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi told Reuters before embarking on a tour of areas newly retaken.
Gergiev said the concert was a way to stand up against the atrocities of ISIS, which overran the ancient city and surrounding town in May 2015 and held it for 10 months before it was retaken by government forces in March of this year.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has moved one kilometer into rebel-held parts of Aleppo from the east, according to the AP. A spokesman for the Syrian army said the regime and its forces have retaken upwards of 50 percent of east Aleppo.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday that the United States is providing more support to Iraq as its military moves to take back territory from Islamic State, and he expects the city of Mosul will be retaken eventually.
The Syrian regime has retaken control of much of the country in the past year with the help of Russian forces and has launched an offensive to seize Idlib, the only province that came under full rebel control in the near-seven-year war.
Captain Ross, the leader of the detachment, and Sergeant Emond were Green Berets and part of 3rd Special Forces Group, a unit sent to Ghazni after its provincial capital was overrun by Taliban militants in August and then retaken by American and Afghan troops.
Earlier this month, Trump declared that US backed-forces had retaken 100% of the territory once claimed by ISIS in Syria, an announcement that surprised US officials and regional allies leading the fight, who told CNN at the time that the battle was not over.
The army missed a December deadline set by President Muhammadu Buhari to wipe out the group, which wants to set up an Islamic caliphate in the area around Lake Chad, but has retaken most of its territory - at one point the size of Belgium.
The American-led coalition has retaken 97 percent of the territory once held by the militants, and the military is working to stabilize recently liberated areas, including the restoration of basic essential services, the removal of explosive materials and the distribution of humanitarian aid.
The conflict in Aleppo is nearing its end as Syrian government forces have retaken most of the city, but an estimated 100,000 people are still stuck in the centre of east Aleppo and many of them have shared on goodbye messages on social media.
Though the Nigerian military has arrested and killed many fighters — and more crucially, retaken a swath of territory once held by insurgents that is estimated to be as large as Belgium — the gains have come against a backdrop of relentless suicide bombings that, if anything, have escalated.
The village of Al-Adla, which is about 31 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Mosul, near the Great Zab River, had been retaken by the 9th armored division, which had marked it free of ISIS and moved on, to liberate other small settlements in the area.
"Two of my sons are detained, another was martyred, one is in Lebanon and another is in Libya," said Faisal al-Fitrawi, 71, a resident of Baba Amr who left at the start of the fighting and returned once it had been retaken by the government.
The army which is being helped by Iranian-backed militias, Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah militant group and a Palestinian militia, acknowledged rebels had retaken Handarat, whose capture on Saturday briefly marked the first major ground advance by the army in a new offensive to recapture rebel held Aleppo.
Decades later, an American carrier pigeon called G.I. Joe saved as many as a thousand lives during World War II by flying 20 miles in 20 minutes with a message warning Allied forces not to bomb an Italian village that had been retaken by the British.
More than eight months after the Iraqi forces, supported by American airstrikes and advisers, began to wrest Mosul back from the Islamic State extremists, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi appears to be poised to announce that the forces have finally retaken all of Iraq's second-largest city.
CreditCreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times A four-year military operation to flush the Islamic State from its territory in Iraq and Syria ended on Saturday as the last village held by the terrorist group was retaken, erasing a militant theocracy that once spanned two countries.
Taken by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015, to become the scene of executions of residents and the destruction of antiquities, and then retaken dramatically by Russian and Syrian government forces in March 2016, Palmyra has been a constant topic of discussion around the world.
He added that things had improved in recent days because a fall in temperatures had allowed more efficient power generation and GNA-aligned forces had partly retaken and restarted a power station in the coastal city of Sirte that had been seized by Islamic State militants last year.
Last week, Iraqi troops announced they had retaken the city center, one of the terror outfit's last remaining strongholds, though operations remained ongoing "Most ISIS militants have surrendered to our forces, but some of them were detained after they tried to sneak in among their families," Hakim said.
Ghouta has been besieged for years, but in the last two weeks, the Syrian army has retaken nearly all the farmland in eastern Ghouta under cover of near-ceaseless shelling and air strikes, leaving only a dense sprawl of towns - about half the territory - still under insurgent control.
Abdul Amir al-Muhammadawi, a spokesman for an elite unit of Interior Ministry troops, said that the buildings retaken from the Islamic State included a courthouse where militants had carried out whippings, stonings and beheadings, as well as a building where militants had thrown people to their deaths.
Here, according to data from the NCSL, are all the state legislatures that went to Democrats in 2018: It was a big night for Democrats in New Hampshire, where the party appears to have retaken both chambers of the state legislature for the first time in almost a decade.
Bingham said his goal is "to create a safe environment and a campus culture that protects and cares for the victims of abuse" As a step in that direction, he said all staff and faculty will have retaken and completed a course on sexual harassment over the next six weeks.
In the 1968 history "Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans," regarded as "canonical," by some, author T.R. Fehrenbach described the growing Latino population as analogous to an invasion and civil rights gains that curtailed state-sponsored oppression as a Texas retaken by the Latinos via the ballot box.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said Monday that $85033 million of a $75 million tranche of aid money to the U.N. Development Program's Funding Facility for Stabilization will go to addressing minority groups in areas of northern Iraq retaken from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Late Monday, several residents reported via text and voice messages that they were crowded into abandoned apartments and rainy streets, exposed to shelling and afraid they would be killed or arrested if pro-government forces reached them, as antigovernment activists circulated reports of scores of summary killings in retaken areas.
The death of Mr. Baghdadi, who delivered a fiery sermon in Mosul, Iraq, after the militants captured the city in June 2014, would be a psychological blow to the Islamic State, which is still using small groups of fighters to mount guerrilla attacks against Iraqi forces who have retaken the city.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that U.S.-backed forces in Syria have retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by the militants, appearing to contradict the SDF commander-in-chief who was shown in a video released earlier in the day saying "complete victory" would be announced in a week.
The exodus from the suburb, eastern Ghouta, the last major rebel-held pocket near the capital city, has come after two months of ferocious bombardment by the Syrian military and by its Iranian and Russian allies, as the government of President Bashar al-Assad has retaken control of most of the region.
A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 Three years later, after the territory was retaken by Romanian troops aligned with the Germans, the family was deported to the Moghiley-Podolsk ghetto in what the Romanians called Transnistria (now part of Ukraine), until it was liberated by the Russians in 1944.
Today, the two men, after years of bad blood and the imprisonment of Mr. Anwar, have retaken their places at the top of Malaysian politics: Mr. Mahathir is prime minister once again, at age 92, and Mr. Anwar, newly pardoned by the country's king on Wednesday, is waiting to inherit the leadership.
While the last pocket of the Sunni terror group's so-called caliphate — which once stretched across wide swathes of Syria and Iraq, ruling as many as 12 million people — was finally retaken by U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces last March, that only spelled the end of the group's existence as a territorial entity.
But if Assad has mostly destroyed the opposition and retaken much of the country by the end of Obama's term, the next president will find a done deal in Syria; one where the Syrian people view the United States as a traitor, and where Iran, Russia and Hezbollah are potentially more influential than ever.
The offensive has retaken swathes of rebel-held territory and cut off supply lines to Aleppo from Turkey with the help of Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters, whom the Americans regard as their principal ally on the ground against IS. Such has been its speed that Mr Assad's forces are in need of a breather.
"The Islamic State's remaining caliphate is likely to break up before the end of the year, reducing its governance project to a string of isolated urban areas that will eventually be retaken over the course of 2018," Columb Strack, a senior Middle East analyst at IHS Markit, said in a press release announcing their findings.
The roughly 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, many of them special forces, were ostensibly helping to combat Islamic State but were also seen as a possible bulwark against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has retaken much of the country from his foes in the civil war, with military help from Iran and Russia.
An online campaign is pushing to get the song to No. 33 when he arrives, but first it has to get past one of the biggest-selling songs in British chart history -- a patriotic soccer (football?) anthem that has retaken charts just as England is set to play in its first World Cup semifinal since 23 on Wednesday.
The roughly 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, many of them special forces, were ostensibly helping to combat Islamic State but were also seen as a possible bulwark against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has retaken much of the country from his foes in the multi-sided civil war, with military help from Iran and Russia.
Poles have been asking for U.S. troops to be stationed on its territory since Lech Walesa, the Solidarity trade union leader who became Poland's president, first made the request when he came to Washington in November 1989, just months after Poland had thrown off the Soviet yoke and retaken its place among the free countries of Europe.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that it had evacuated more than 140 civilians from a part of Aleppo's old city that had been retaken by the government, mainly residents of a home for older people, and that it had recovered the bodies of 11 people who had died of lack of medical care.
" General Mattis did not say how many American troops should be kept in Iraq, but he asserted that the United States needed to maintain its influence there long after Mosul is retaken from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, to ensure that Iraq "does not become a rump state of the regime in Tehran.
He was later contradicted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said the SDF had retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by IS. Washington has about 2,000 troops in Syria, mainly to back the SDF against IS. Trump announced in December he would withdraw all of them, but the White House partially reversed itself last month, saying some 400 troops would stay.
He was later contradicted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said the SDF had retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by IS. Washington has about 2,000 troops in Syria, mainly to back the SDF against IS. Trump announced in December he would withdraw all of them, but the White House partially reversed itself last month, saying some 400 troops would stay.
Related: The Fight to Retake Mosul: Inside the Assault on the Islamic State's Stronghold in Iraq In the past two weeks, Iraqi forces backed by coalition air strikes have retaken significant parts of Hit, a strategic town 50 km northwest of Ramadi, and three villages in the Makhmour area, which is set to be a key staging ground for a future assault on Mosul.
While not a perfect measure, one clean way of visualizing just how much Trump has retaken America's attention is on Google Trends, where Biden briefly spiked over Trump in early March following his giant Super Tuesday wins and has since dropped and virtually flat-lined in the last ten days (both Trump and Biden are basically nonexistent compared to searches for the term "coronavirus").
While not a perfect measure, one clean way of visualizing just how much Trump has retaken America's attention is on Google Trends, where Biden briefly spiked over Trump in early March following his giant Super Tuesday wins and has since dropped and virtually flat-lined in the last ten days (both Trump and Biden are basically nonexistent compared to searches for the term "coronavirus").
He was later contradicted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said the SDF had retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by IS. Washington has about 2,000 troops in Syria, mainly to support the SDF in fighting IS. Trump announced in December he would withdraw all of them, but the White House partially reversed itself last month, saying some 400 troops would stay.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE said Wednesday that a formal announcement that all territory has been retaken from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will come as soon as next week.

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