Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime ...

shortening its name from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL — the acronym used by the Obama administration and the British Foreign Office to this day. The Levant can refer to all countries ...

Developments over this last weekend have left many Americans (and many of our allies) wondering about the progress (or lack thereof) of our fight against ISIS. First ...

An Egyptian court declared St Catherine’s Monastery to be state property, sparking concerns of closure. St Catherine’s is one of the oldest continually functioning monasteries in the world. It was ...

A Houthi source told Newsweek that any attack on Iran "will drag the entire region into the abyss of war" amid escalation ...

The group renamed itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and launched a military campaign during which it captured large parts of Syria and Iraq. In early June 2014, the group captured ...

The Islamic State (IS) is reportedly trying to exploit the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

As the US continues to reduce its military footprint in Syria, US Central Command launched an airstrike that killed Rakhim Boev, who it identified as “a Syria-based ISIS official who was involved in ...

The extremist group claimed responsibility for two attacks, its first against the new government since the fall of Bashar ...

BAGHDAD — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces ...

While it was believed that the camps, which are home to more than 40,000 families, will be shut down and the inmates will be repatriated to their own countries, the authorities have now clarified to ...