Islamic State

President al-Sharaa is scheduled to visit Washington next week for a meeting with US President Donald Trump, marking the first time a Syrian head of state will officially visit the White House.

Islamic State’s resurgence in Syria explained: Why attacks are rising and what the US drawdown means

How a reduced American presence, a fragmented state, and new tactics are fuelling a comeback.

New Orleans attack suspect acted alone, supported Islamic State: FBI

IS is a Muslim militant group that once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Iraq and Syria until it collapsed following a sustained military campaign by a U.S.-led coalition

France says it carried out missile strikes against ISIS in Syria last weekend

The French airstrike followed a similar military strike by the United States in Syria, which the US said had killed two Islamic State operatives.

Pope in autobiography reveals an apparent bombing plot during his 2021 visit to Iraq

According to the book, British intelligence informed Iraqi police as soon as Francis arrived in Baghdad that a woman wearing explosives was heading toward Mosul and was planning to blow herself up during the papal visit.

Tight security for Taliban minister's funeral as Islamic State group claim deadly suicide attack

Cabinet member Khalil Haqqani was the most high-profile casualty of an assault in the country since the Taliban seized power three years ago.

Why Has West Africa Become A World Terrorism Hotspot?

20-year-old fled from Mali to Spain after jihadist militants attacked his village. -His mother and father were dead, his brother and sister missing. His ordeal is a sign of how groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State are gaining ground in the Sahel region. Following coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, juntas there have turned their backs on traditional Western allies and embraced Russia. Those coups were driven in part by frustration at the failure of authorities to tackle militant violence. But despite promises to improve security, the new military regimes and mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group continue to lose ground. Watch here for more details.

Putin forgot that Islamic State thinks he’s part of the West

For Islamic State or al-Qaeda, Putin’s military interventions in Syria and Chechnya are no different from America’s in Iraq or Libya. The presence of a large Russian military base in predominantly Sunni Muslim Tajikistan — the ex-Soviet country that the arrested suspects may have been from — is no less offensive to Islamist ideas than the presence of US military bases in the Gulf. Russia is for them a part of the Christian West. It doesn’t belong anywhere on the territory of their imagined Islamic caliphate

World reaction to deadly shooting at Moscow concert hall

Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on concertgoers at a hall near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 more in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.

What do we know about ISIS-K, the Taliban faction behind Moscow terror attack?

ISIS-K, also known as Islamic State Khorasan Province, claimed responsibility for the deadly terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday.

India stands in solidarity with Russia in this hour of grief, says PM Modi on Moscow terror attack

Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated on Saturday that India strongly condemns the barbaric terror incident in Moscow and stands in solidarity with the Russian government and people in this time of grief.

Moscow terror strike: Gunmen kill over 60 at concert hall, Islamic State claims responsibility

Unconfirmed sources suggested that the death toll could grow, making it one of the biggest attacks on Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, in which Islamist extremists kidnapped over 1,000 people, including hundreds of children

Oscar Predictions 2024: Who will win the Best Documentary Feature Film?

Last year at the Oscars, the documentary 'Navalny' bagged the top prize. The Russian Opposition leader died in prison last month. This year, Ukraine's '20 Days in Mariupol' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.

Everything you should know about the Islamic State terror group: In Pics

What is Islamic State, how dangerous is it, what are its preferred terror tactics, all you need to know...

Sweden to distance itself from Kurdish groups in bid to join NATO

Sweden, along with the United States and several other NATO countries, has supported the YPG in the fight against Islamic State.

Lafarge pleads guilty to supporting Islamic State, will pay U.S. $778 million

The admission in Brooklyn federal court marked the first time a company has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization.

US military package offer to Pakistan signals change in South Asia policy

The US offer to upgrade Pakistan’s F-16 fighter planes has raised questions over whether Washington was trying to send a message to New Delhi.

British national gets life for Islamic State hostage killings

Roughly two dozen Westerners were taken captive a decade ago by a notorious group of masked captors nicknamed The Beatles for their British accents. El Shafee Elsheikh received his sentence Friday in an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom.

'In response to insults leveled at Prophet Mohammed': Islamic State claims attack on Kabul gurdwara

On an affiliated Telegram channel, the local branch of Islamic State said the attack was in response to insults leveled at the Prophet Mohammed, an apparent reference to remarks by an Indian government spokeswoman that have been condemned by many Muslim-majority countries.

Taliban say they won't work with US to contain Islamic State

Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told there would be no cooperation with Washington on going after the increasingly active Islamic State group affiliate in Afghanistan.

Islamic State jihadist attack kills 13 Iraqi police: Security, medics

The Iraqi government declared the Sunni extremists defeated in late 2017, but they retain sleeper cells which continue to hit security forces with asymmetric attacks.

A new narco-state is blossoming in Afghanistan under the Taliban

In 2020, the area under opium cultivation expanded to 224,000 hectares from 163,000 hectares - overwhelmingly in areas under Taliban control.

Burkina Faso govt says at least 100 civilians die in attack

This is the deadliest attack recorded in Burkina Faso since the West African country was overrun by jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State about five years ago, said Heni Nsaibia.

UN experts: Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis

UNITAD report details how ISIS used laboratories at Mosul University to make chemical weapons, and committed genocide and abuses against minority Yazidis in Iraq and Syria.

Bomb kills at least 25 people near school in Afghan capital

The Taliban has denied responsibility for the bombing; the attack comes as US troops prepare to leave Afghanistan entirely by September 11 - the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.