The Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim group, emerged as an al Qaeda offshoot in 2003, fighting US forces after the invasion of Iraq. The US withdrew from Iraq in 2011, leaving a power vacuum and ...

DAMASCUS, June 12 (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring ...

The Islamic State is staging a resurgence in parts of Syria and Iraq, with fighters regrouping in cities and testing weakened defenses. New reports and military assessments point to rising ISIS ...

MIDDLE Eastern leaders and their Western allies have long warned that Islamic State (IS) could exploit the fall of the Assad ...

An Islamic State suicide bomber has killed 20 people and wounded 52 more in the first major attack by the Islamist terror ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was killed in an operation by ...

Lebanese security forces have detained a high-ranking figure linked to the Islamic State group, marking a significant development in ongoing efforts to dismantle extremist networks operating within ...

The extremist group, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, has opposed the new authority in Damascus led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once the head of al-Qaeda's Syria branch.

Sunday night attck was first major IS operation and suicide bombing in Syria since toppling of former president Bashar al-Assad in December ...

The group is still nowhere near as strong as it was a decade ago, when it controlled eastern Syria and a large part of northern Iraq, but there is a risk, experts say, that the Islamic State can ...

Islamic State resurgence concerns US-coalition forces in Iraq, Syria - report IS is acquiring forces in the North Arabian Desert, and is training recruits to become suicide bombers, to attack ...