Tag: Islamic State

BAGHDAD- Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric said on Friday corruption in the armed forces had enabled Islamic State to seize much of northern Iraq,...

Islamic State fighters, who now hold up to a third of Syria as well as swathes of Iraq and have declared a 'Caliphate' on the territories they control, took the larger Sha'ar gas field on Oct. 30.

At least five TTP commanders, three lesser cadres from Afghan Taliban pledge support to IS Militant, security, official sources reportedly say it is an individual...

A convoy of Iraqi peshmerga fighters and weaponry made its way across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani...

WASHINGTON- The Islamic State has become the world's wealthiest terror group, earning tens of millions of dollars a month from illegal oil sales and ransoms,...

Oil sales alone from captured refineries are allowing militants to produce some 50,000 barrels a day from fields in Syria and Iraq, representing a...

BEIRUT- Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 553 people, including 32 civilians, during a month-long campaign in Syria against Islamic State militants, a Syrian...

OTTAWA- Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country was being targeted for reprisals...

BEIRUT- Islamic State group jihadists have executed a man in northern Syria they accused of filming their headquarters and displayed his body on a cross,...

ISLAMABAD  - A leading group of Pakistani clerics on Friday condemned the Islamic State organisation, amid concerns the hardline jihadists could gain a foothold in...

Shahidullah Shahid says he and five other district chiefs of banned TTP would now abide by all decisions of Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi Six top commanders...

Saudi FM says ‘our reservations are about Iran's policy in the region, not about Iran as a country or people’

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called for military backing for Syria's “moderate opposition” to create a “third force” in the war-torn country to take on the Damascus regime as well as IS militants

The Yazidi faith is a unique blend of beliefs that draws from several religions and includes the worship of a figure they refer to as the Peacock Angel.

Islamic State claimed that it shot down an Iraqi army helicopter in northern Iraq, the SITE monitoring group reported early on Thursday. The helicopter crashed...

Smoke rises after a mortar shell landed on the south of the city centre of Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, seen from the Turkish side of border as thousands of new Syrian refugees from Kobani arrive in Suruc, Turkey.

Report says IS and allied groups have attacked and destroyed places of religious and cultural significance in Iraq that do not conform to its...