A young American commando was killed when U.S. special operations forces conducted an operation to free dozens of hostages who faced imminent execution by ISIS in Iraq, U.S. officials said Thursday.

In Iraq -- for the first time since the US withdrawal of 2011 -- an American soldier has been killed during a combat operation. He was one of several US commandos who raided an Islamic State outpost ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist focused on Middle East affairs. As part of its pre-planned drawdown, U.S. troops in Iraq are ...

Ten members of a key financial network for the Islamic State network have been arrested in Iraq, the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists announced Thursday. Iraqi commandos and Kurdish ...

Let's call it the "Adnan and Jim Strategy." These two soldiers exemplify the new U.S. plan to stabilize Iraq by training Iraqi security forces and embedding U.S. combat advisers with them. If their ...

The Iraqi battalion leader huddled over the map with his U.S. advisers, showing how he planned to surround a Sunni enclave where al-Qaida militants were thought to be hiding. The Americans nodded and ...

U.S. commandos have captured a suspected ISIS militant in northern Iraq, defense officials confirmed to NBC News early Wednesday. The "ranking" ISIS member was captured by Delta Force, the Army's top ...