The Latest Breaking News from Islamic State

Around 60 Australian women and children are reported to be living in Syrian detention camps, most of them children under six years of age. This week, the federal government announced plans to rescue these Australians – family members of slain or jailed Islamic State combatants – from the camps and…

US forces killed three senior Islamic State leaders in two separate military operations in Syria Thursday, including a rare ground raid in a portion of the northeast that is controlled by the Syrian regime, US officials said.

The U.S. military said it carried out an air strike on Thursday in northern Syria that killed two Islamic State members including a leader it named as Abu-Hashum al-Umawi.

U.S. officials say U.S. forces killed three senior Islamic State leaders in two separate military operations in Syria Thursday, including a rare ground raid in a portion of the northeast that is controlled by the Syrian regime

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The U.S. military said on Thursday a helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast targeted and killed Wahid al-Shammri, an Islamic State official who it said facilitated the smuggling of weapons and fighters.

A rare U.S. helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast on Thursday killed one Islamic State official, wounded another and led to the U.S. capture of two more individuals, a U.S. official told Reuters.

Syrian state television says that US special forces carried out a rare operation at a government-held village in the country's northeast, killing one person and capturing others

A rare U.S. raid on a government-held village in northeast Syria early on Thursday killed an Islamic State official hiding out there, two security sources said.

A rare U.S. helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast killed an Islamic State militant hiding out there and a separate U.S. air strike later on Thursday killed two others, the U.S. military said.

After an ASIO briefing, Peter Dutton says he holds "grave concerns" that rescuing women and children from detention camps in Syria will pose significant risk to the safety of Australians.