Islamic state

Israel carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian militants there fired rockets into southern Israel. The…

China said Friday that the Islamic State group was probably holding one of its citizens, adding the government had initiated…

 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri dismissed the Islamic State movement and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as illegitimate but said…

A security delegation affiliated with the government of beleaguered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Egyptian officials in…

Heavy clashes broke out between Islamic State and army units loyal to the country's official government near the eastern city…

The Islamic State group had ambitious plans for Afghanistan, but Taliban resistance, US drone strikes, and a society less scarred…

Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State insurgents in a cluster of villages in Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk on Wednesday, bent…

Islamic State has executed four people in the central Libyan city of Sirte, including at least one member of a…

The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the…

Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a…