Brett Mcgurk

Isis expected to lose Mosul battle, but the war still up for grabs

Even if the Islamists are defeated militarily, what comes next has coalition jittery

Turkish forces push deeper into Syria and draw US criticism

Washington expresses concern Turkish troops focusing on Kurds and not Isis

Kurdish forces open front and tighten grip on Isis capital Mosul

Fighters capture strategic river crossing in Iraq backed by US-led coalition air strikes

Kurdish forces advance on Isis-held Mosul

Kurdish forces battling Islamic State militants seize 11 villages in latest push

Islamic State loses ground and revenue as desertions increase

Isis targets civilians and tries to stir sectarian strife amid onslaught in Syria and Iraq

Turkey pressed to admit 40,000 Syrians fleeing major advance

Opposition-held areas of Aleppo city close to encirclement as Assad forces step up assault

Islamic State ‘sanctioned organ harvesting’

Document taken in US raid raises concerns that group may be trafficking in body parts

Kurdish militants kill 2 Turkish soldiers in bomb attack

Bombing is appears to be retaliation for crackdown on Kurdistan Workers Party

Kerry defends US reversal on supply of weapons to Kurds

Failure to support Kurds fighting Islamic State would have been ‘irresponsible’

Islamic State’s leader’s rise to power linked to US

Self-appointed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi commands an army ‘worse than al-Qaida’

Suicide bomb instructor blows up his class

22 dead after commander unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with explosives

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