Mike Giglio
The US Wants To Keep The Focus On ISIS But Its Iraqi Allies Are Moving On
Experts have warned for years that US-backed Iraqi forces and US-backed Kurdish forces will turn against one another once the war on ISIS ends. Now the time has come.
Mike Giglio
A Syrian-American Journalist's Family Doesn't Think The US Will Act On Her Murder
Family members of Syrian-American journalist and activist Halla Barakat and her mother, Ouruba, tell BuzzFeed News they do not believe the US will investigate their deaths.
Mike Giglio
This Man Fought To Keep ISIS Out Of Iraq. Now He Wants To Break It Apart.
Millions of Kurds are set to vote in an independence referendum that nobody else wants, least of all Washington. After three years fighting ISIS with the US, the Kurdish spy chief Masrour Barzani wants to know if it was all worth it.
Mike Giglio
Iraq Military’s Human Rights Abuses Draw Few US Complaints
Extrajudicial killings of suspected ISIS members at the hands of Iraqi security forces in Mosul are no secret. But US troops embedded with Iraqi forces have reported only a handful of possible human rights violations, none as serious as what human rights groups and news reports say have taken place.
Nancy A. Youssef
These Are The Civilian Victims Of The US-Led Campaign Against ISIS
The US-led air campaign against ISIS in Iraq has taken a devastating toll on civilians, with very little accountability. BuzzFeed News visited seven sites in Mosul where witnesses say that innocent people were killed by airstrikes from the US and its allies.
Mike Giglio
The ISIS Killers: The Men Leading the Battle For Mosul Might Be Wiped Out Along the Way
An elite group of Iraqi soldiers is leading the battle to free the city of Mosul from ISIS. The so-called “Golden Division” was formed and trained by the US to hunt terrorists — but in Mosul they have been thrown into brutal urban combat. Mike Giglio and Warzer Jaff accompanied them to the front lines for some of the decisive moments of the seven-month offensive. This is the story of their fight against ISIS and of the men they lost along the way.
Mike Giglio
The US Launched New Airstrikes Against Pro-Assad Forces In Syria
Advancing vehicles were destroyed in a US airstrike after pro-regime forces approached an area of southern Syria where US forces are currently deployed.
Nancy A. Youssef
US Special Forces Are Secretly Training Syrian Rebels And Fighting Alongside Them
Sources tell BuzzFeed News that US commandos have engaged in combat with ISIS during a secret deployment to southern Syria that has them living alongside the rebels they’re instructing.
Mitch Prothero
The US Military Wants Its Troops To Stay In Iraq — Even After ISIS Is Gone
The US troops would support their local counterparts with skills where they still fall short like counterterrorism, intelligence gathering, and aviation, a US defense official told BuzzFeed News.
Nancy A. Youssef
Russia And Syria Worked Side By Side At The Air Base That Launched A Chemical Attack
“They talk with each other; they probably play some soccer with each other," one analyst told BuzzFeed News of the base hit in Thursday's US missile strikes. "Obviously they coordinate to a certain extent.”
Mike Giglio
Pentagon "Presenting Options" For Military Action In Syria
The White House is considering attacking Syria, days after a chemical weapons attack is believed to have killed dozens of people.
Nancy A. Youssef
A Soldier Loses His Legs On A Front Line With ISIS — Then Fights To Rebuild His Life
Shirwan Shikho felt he had no choice but to fight on the front lines of the global war against ISIS. It was a decision that would cost him the life he had known.
Mike Giglio
Inside The “Mad Max-Style” Tactics ISIS Is Using In Its Last Stand In Iraq
With waves of suicide bombs and armed drones, ISIS is turning western Mosul into a dystopian battlefield. “They are trapped, and they have no choice but to fight,” an Iraqi officer said.
Mike Giglio
Here’s How Iraqi Soldiers Fighting ISIS Feel About Trump’s Immigration Ban
“We’ve been fighting terrorism since 2003,” an Iraqi soldier told BuzzFeed News in Mosul. “[Trump] just became president the other day.”
Mike Giglio
We Talked To People Who Fought For ISIS. This Is How They Plan To Use Trump.
ISIS aims to exploit Trump’s controversial rhetoric about Muslims to reinforce its propaganda, five current and former members told BuzzFeed News. “Trump will shorten the time it takes for us to achieve our goals,” one said.
Mike Giglio
Syrians Are Heartbroken Over Trump’s Plan To Ban Refugees From The US
“We had heard that Americans always stand beside the oppressed, regardless of their religion or their ethnicity,” said a refugee who fled Syria with her six children.
Munzer al-Awad
ISIS Suicide Bombers In Mosul Are Terrifyingly Effective
It is the biggest suicide attack operation since Japan in World War II. One expert said ISIS is using hundreds of car bombers like “a poor man’s” smart bomb.
Mitch Prothero
38 Killed, Dozens Injured In Explosions Outside Turkish Stadium In Istanbul
A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for the blasts. BuzzFeed News reporter Mike Giglio is in Istanbul.
David Mack
This Is How Ground Troops In Mosul Are Calling US Airstrikes On ISIS
“We’re dropping bombs on their heads from the sky, and they’re driving bombs at us.”
Mike Giglio
Civilians Are Under Fire As They Flee ISIS Inside Mosul
“We are going into the unknown.”
Mike Giglio
