The US military has used its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed “the mother of all bombs,” for the first time in combat. The US Air Force used it in Afghanistan to target ISIL tunnels and personnel. The 21,000-pound (9,525 kg) bomb was dropped in the Achin district ...
Syrian Army units, in cooperation with the backing forces, foiled an attack by ISIL-affiliated terrorist groups on military posts in the eastern countryside of Homs central province. A military source told SANA that terrorist groups attacked from the axes of al-Mahsa /Sawwaneh Mountain/ al-Qaryatain Dam a number of military posts ...