U.S.-led forces have killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in northwestern Syria. The U.S. Central Command announced on Friday that Dhiya Zawba Muslih al-Hardan and his two sons were killed ...

(Reuters) -U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces killed a senior Islamic state leader and his two Islamic state-affiliated sons, the U.S. military said in a post on X on Friday.

Barrack has repeatedly stressed that the US was not dictating Syria’s form of government. He has cast his diplomacy as a test ...

As Western countries curtail support, the fate of one the world’s oldest state-building projects hangs in the balance. Three ...

The anti-Islamic State coalition of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve received its new commander at a ...

The Islamic State in Somalia broke away from al-Shabab in 2015; its secretive, henna-bearded leader, Abdulqadir Mumin, is now the Islamic State’s global caliph, the U.S. military says.

The Islamic State’s various names over the years suggest this tension. Jihadist groups took off in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, and many coalesced around Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...

The Islamic State group lso is known as both IS and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ...

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet for a video released on April 29. (AP) Christian C. Sahner is associate professor of Islamic ...

The Islamic State’s ruthless credo and military successes helped spur affiliated groups in Africa, Asia and Europe. It’s a greatly decentralized alliance. Advertisement.