The United Nations says attacks by insurgents in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 ...

The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are ...

Attacks by insurgents in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the space of eight ...

At least 21 people were killed in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to ...

Islamic State is far from the formidable force it once was, but militant cells often operating independently have survived across a swathe of northern Iraq and northeastern Syria, and in recent ...

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

If the Islamic State is induced to collapse, some form of local security apparatus will eventually restore itself, but if so, some form of warlordism is the likely outcome. In some areas, the fall of ...

The Islamic State has brutally targeted men, women and children based on ethnic and religious affiliations. The group is responsible for beheading American journalist James Foley. The Islamic ...

The Islamic State claimed its Libyan province as the caliphate’s first colony in 2014, although it recently lost most of its land there, too. Other cells, notably in Yemen, are weaker or dormant.

The self-proclaimed Islamic State has just named its new leader. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qorashi takes the place of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the man who declared the so-called Islamic State ...

A banner of the Islamic State was found in the truck used to kill 14 people during on New Years’ Day in New Orleans, officials say. By The Associated Press Wire Service Jan. 1, 2025 ...