Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group launched a raid in Mali's Wela village targeting a woman suspected of aiding jihadists. Women in ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and deport non-citizen college students partici...

The US military launched an airstrike in Syria targeting a weapons facility belonging to an Iranian-aligned group. This was a retaliatory m...

The United States has about 1,000 troops deployed in Syria as part of international efforts to combat jihadists, and periodically carries o...

Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi and his defence minister, Tene Birahima Ouattara, were joined by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le D...

"His image -- that of a devout Muslim in more traditional dress, but always with his AK-74 at arm's reach and often in his camouflage jacke...

The jihadist insurgency began in neighbouring Mali in 2012 and spread into its territory in 2015, killing more than 1,200 people and displa...

Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of...

Saudi Arabia has already shown that it cannot be trusted with powerful cybertools such as those developed by the NSO Group. Technology that...

Air raids on Islamic State group targets in Syria have left hundreds of civilians dead since 2014.

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LeT chief Hafiz Saeed has been critical of the IS, saying “foreign elements“ are at tempting to strengthen `Daesh' (IS) in Pakistan.

Only seven Indians are currently with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, just one in a combat role, while six from the country who had joined the drea...

US government is moving too slowly to counter Islamic State group's fast-paced online propaganda and vast recruitment efforts, experts and ...

Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a Social Democrat, drafted the bill in line with a UN resolution from last September on foreign figh...

This was necessary as hundreds of jihadists from this country have been travelling to join the IS militants via Turkey using their identity...

Deep-seated sectarian and regional power rivalries in the Middle East present myriad stumbling blocks in the monumental new endeavour.