Thirteen years after 9/11, Islamic militants have seized a state-sized territory in the heart of the Middle East, and the United States is struggling to determine how to respond. The two main ...

A DoD News story, published on Defense.gov, claims that the “Strategy to Defeat ISIL is Working, Military Official Says.” The report reads, “The coalition and Iraqi security forces strategy to defeat ...

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Sunday’s shooting in Orlando should only emphasize that everyone must do everything in their power to defeat the Islamic State. “It ...

Last month, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, testified that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, will likely attempt terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. This echoes ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida’s anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious ...

During his Wednesday foreign policy speech, Donald Trump said that the United States must become less predictable in order to defeat the Islamic State. “Their days are numbered,” he said, referring to ...

"ISIL defeated and on the run," the Kurdistan regional security council said in a tweet, using an acronym for Islamic State. Previous ...