Islamic state

A car bomb claimed by Islamic State in a Shi'ite Muslim district of Baghdad killed at least 50 people and…

For years after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, the Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had an outsized influence on the…

Islamic State militants seized Syrian government-controlled territory in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, a war monitor…

Four conscripts from North Sinai's security forces were killed in an exchange of gun fire in central Sinai on Sunday,…

Danish police said they had arrested four people on Thursday at different addresses near Copenhagen on suspicion of having been…

Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are netting between US$150 million and $200 million a year from illicit trade…

Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the…

A prominent leader in Syrian al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front was killed on Sunday in what rebel sources said appeared…

Syrian and allied forces backed by Russian air strikes drove Islamic State militants out of the town of al-Qaryatain on…

Islamic State militants retreating from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army…