Islamic state
Iraqi PM to outline plan for retaking Ramadi after IS gains
Iraq’s plan to recapture the western city of Ramadi from Islamic State jihadists will dominate a meeting Tuesday in Paris of foreign ministers from...
Worldwide growth: Islamic State’s reach expands to Asia and Africa
A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to Southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State group, leading to greater risks for...
Interpol: Islamic State group gains support in Africa, Asia
A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to Southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State group, leading to greater risks for...
Iraq Shi'ite militia take lead in campaign to reverse Islamic State gains
Iraq’s Shi'ite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive Islamic State from the western province of Anbar, giving...
Syria warplanes batter extremists in ancient Palmyra
Syrian government aircraft carried out intense strikes Monday against the Islamic State group in and around the ancient city of Palmyra after its fall...
Massacre: Syria says Islamic State killed hundreds in Palmyra
Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago,...
Syria says Islamic State kills hundreds, including children, in Palmyra
Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago,...
Iraq claws back land from IS near Ramadi after bloody battle
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi late Saturday night, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the...
Iraq claws back land from IS near Ramadi
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi Saturday, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the jihadists’...
Thousands fleeing Islamic State are ‘barred from Baghdad’
Following the takeover of Ramadi, Baghdad is on high alert.
Islamic State fighters have vowed to take the capital, and they are just 70 miles away.
Islamic State loyalists claim Saudi mosque attack
A group purporting to be a newly established Saudi affiliate of the Islamic State group says it is behind Friday’s attack on Shiite worshippers in...
IS enters Syria’s Palmyra as U.S. takes ‘hard look’ at Iraq strategy
Jihadists from the Islamic State group were in almost full control of Syria’s historic city of Palmyra on Wednesday night after the withdrawal of...
Video surfaces from IS leader who was thought to be dead
The Islamic State group has released an audio message purportedly from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has not been seen or heard from in months. The...
Iraq says airstrike ‘targeted and killed’ senior Islamic State commander
The second most senior member of Islamic State has been killed in a coalition airstrike, Iraq’s defence ministry has claimed.
Iraq says airstrike targeted senior Islamic State commander
The second most senior member of Islamic State has been killed in a coalition airstrike, Iraq’s defence ministry has claimed.
In Iraq, a historic Christian library saved from militants
The Syriac Orthodox Christians of Mar Matti, a monastery that dates back to the 4th century, moved to rescue their centuries-old library of around 80 manuscripts...
Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel
The Islamic State (IS) has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon...
IS accepts allegiance of Nigeria jihadists Boko Haram
The Islamic State group has accepted a pledge of allegiance to the group made by the Nigerian jihadist organisation Boko Haram, according to an audiotape...
Iraqi, Shiite forces sweep into Tikrit with U.S. on the sidelines
Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein’s home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing on two fronts in their biggest...
Iraqi, Shiite forces sweep into Tikrit with U.S. on the sidelines
Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein’s home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing on two fronts in their biggest...
Islamic State launches major Syrian offensive as Iraqi troops move into Tikrit
The Islamic State jihadist group launched a major offensive Wednesday to try to capture a strategic town on the Syrian-Turkish border, leaving dozens dead...
'I saw Jihadi John kill Goto', says IS defector employed to keep hostages calm
A former Islamic State member has told Sky News he saw ‘Jihadi John’ carry out executions, and confirmed he is Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old Londoner...
'I saw Jihadi John kill Goto', says IS defector employed to keep hostages calm
A former Islamic State member has told Sky News he saw ‘Jihadi John’ carry out executions, and confirmed he is Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old Londoner...
'I saw Jihadi John kill Goto', claims IS defector employed to keep hostages calm
A former Islamic State member has told Sky News he saw ‘Jihadi John’ carry out executions, and confirmed he is Mohammed Emwazi, the 26-year-old Londoner...
Mines and bombs slow Iraqi advance on Islamic State-held Tikrit
Iraqi forces are closing in on Tikrit on the second day of Baghdad’s largest operation yet against the Islamic State group.
The best business in Iraq: Kurdish gunsmith profits on civil war
Bahktiyar Sadr-Aldeen has seen his business shoot up by 50% since last June, when the Islamic State group took over the Mosul.
Erased: IS and the destruction of ancient artifacts
The Islamic State group released a five-minute video Thursday in which militants in Iraq are seen destroying ancient artefacts that included idols, which...
IS kidnaps 90 Christians - including children - from Syrian villages
Islamic State militants have kidnapped dozens of people from Christian villages in Syria, a human rights watchdog has said.
Families of London girls en route to Syria beg them to come home
Families of two of the three London teenage girls believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State have begged their daughters to return...
Families of London girls bound for Syria beg them to come home
Families of two of the three London teenage girls believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State are asking their daughters to return home.
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