Islamic State

In President Trump’s first year as commander-in-chief, U.S. military activity intensified in nearly every theater of war he inherited, a VICE News review of publicly available information on military operations shows.

VICE News travelled with the Iraqi Federal Police as they took part in the Hawija offensive.

Iraq declared the end of the Islamic State group's caliphate after seizing the ruined Grand al-Nuri Mosque.

The Grand Mosque of al-Nuri, one of Islam’s great cultural and religious monuments, was destroyed in the battle for Mosul.

Fighting between rival governments and militias has plunged the country into anarchy, creating a vacuum for groups like ISIS to move into.

ISIS is gaining ground in Afghanistan as it's driven out of Iraq and Syria

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VICE News follows the YPG as they become masters of areas of the city that until a few weeks ago had always been held by the Syrian regime.

VICE News followed a YPG detachment on a night operation, providing support from Hasakah's Red Villas district to advancing Kurdish forces against IS fighters trying to defend the strategic al-Zuhor neighborhood, under waves of constant airstrikes from bo

VICE News secured exclusive access to YPG fighters as they cleared the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah of Islamic State militants.

VICE News traveled with the Peshmerga's elite Zerevani division as they pushed north through IS-held countryside.

A sniper in Iraq’s Golden Division remembers his fallen comrade, considered the best sniper in the country.