Tag: Islamic State

US warplanes launched four airstrikes against Islamic State militants threatening western Iraq's Haditha Dam early Sunday, witnesses and senior officials said, broadening Washington's campaign...

BEIRUT— Syrian airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group, including one that struck a crowded bakery, killed at least 13 civilians...

In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has insinuated itself into nearly...

MIAMI-  The family of murdered US journalist Steven Sotloff have paid a moving tribute to “his gentle soul”, as a friend challenged his jihadist killers...

President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States has not yet developed a strategy for confronting Islamic State in Syria, an acknowledgement that...

An Islamic State militant uses a megaphone to announce to residents of Tabqa city that Tabqa air base has fallen to Islamic State militants.

BEIRUT- Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group of them hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria...

MONTREAL- A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned Friday that militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member...

Militants of Islamic State (IS) reportedly demanded to release Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a female Pakistani scientist and others extradited to the United States, in...

BEIRUT- At least 70 Islamic State jihadist fighters have been killed in 48 hours of clashes with Syrian army troops in the northern province of...

WASHINGTON- The Islamic State poses a greater danger than a conventional "terrorist group" and is pursuing a vision that could radically alter the face...

BAGHDAD- Militants released a video apparently showing the beheading of an American journalist kidnapped in Syria, in the most direct retaliation yet to nearly...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh Tuesday termed extremist militant groups as "the first enemy of Islam" and stressed that the...

IRBIL- Airstrikes pounded the area around Iraq's largest dam on Saturday in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month, as...

News of killings had come from people who had escaped from nearby Sinjar, the ancient home of the Yazidis and one of the towns captured by the Sunni militants who view the community as “devil worshipers”

BEIRUT- Islamic State militants captured the key Brigade 93 Syrian army base in Raqa province overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on...

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama ordered US warplanes back into the skies over Iraq on Thursday to drop food to refugees and if necessary launch...