New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State ...

CAIRO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack on a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in Kabul. An explosion tore through the restaurant in a heavily guarded ...

Nigeria, which is battling multiple armed groups, said last month that the US strikes were part of an exchange of ...

Moign Khawaja received funding from the Irish Research Council as part of the IRC-Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The rise of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) has been ...

On the sidelines of the third round of the U.N.-convened Doha Working Group (commonly known as Doha Process) meetings held in the Qatari capital on June 30 and July 1, Russia’s Special Presidential ...

The U.S. has sent more forces to Syria, tamping down on the immediate threat, but experts warn that the extremist group could break thousands of hardened fighters out of prison. Men accused of being ...

There are approximately 50,000 veteran Islamic State members and their families currently being held at 27 prisons and detention centers across northeast Syria. They have been a frequent target of ...

A US Navy vessel fires Tomahawk missiles at Islamic State targets in Nigeria on December 25. (US Department of War) On December 25, US President Donald Trump announced that he ordered US strikes ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province said Monday that they had captured and executed a Nigerian brigadier general, a claim Nigeria’s Army has denied. According ...