U.S. Central Command released footage Wednesday morning of a fighter aircraft shooting down a Houthi-launched one-way attack drone. The U.S. military is continuing strikes against the Houthi ...

CENTCOM said late on Friday that it killed Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as “Abu Khadijah,” in an attack on March 13 in the Anbar Province in western Iraq. He was killed while ...

U.S. Central Command forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and Security Forces, conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, according to a statement from CENTCOM.

Michael “Erik” Kurilla, the commander of Centcom, said in a statement. Rifai was the extremist group’s chief of global operations and emir of its Delegated Committee, or senior decision ...

An airstrike conducted by U.S. Central Command forces in northwest Syria has killed a senior military leader in an al-Qaida affiliate, CENTCOM announced Saturday. The precision airstrike conducted ...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces eliminated ISIS’s second-in-command Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known by his alias “Abu Khadijah,” on Thursday in western Iraq, the organization ...

After the strike, CENTCOM and Iraqi forces moved to the strike site and found the two dead bodies, both of whom were wearing unexploded "suicide vests" and had multiple weapons, CENTCOM said.

“As we have said in the past, we will continue to relentlessly pursue these terrorists in order to defend our homeland, and U.S., allied, and partner personnel in the region,” CENTCOM Ge ...