This backing comes with a condition – that Zaidi exclude Iranian-backed militias from Iraq’s next government and curtail ...

— The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, is a militant Sunni Muslim group whose thousands of fighters have occupied crucial swatches of Syria and have now surged across Iraq. — The group ...

US President Donald Trump has invited Zaidi to Washington and declared that Washington "is with him all the way." ...

The number of mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least 3 times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 70s. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu ...

Tehran-aligned factions intensify attacks against French and Italian bases in Iraq. The Iraqi factions allied with Iran grouped under the so-called Islamic Resistance of Iraq have intensified their ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday that its forces have transferred 150 Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq, announcing an effort that could eventually see 7,000 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. military expects to complete the transfer of up to 7,000 Islamic State detainees from Syrian prisons to Iraq in the coming days, a U.S. official told Reuters on ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Recent fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria got close to detention facilities where thousands of Islamic State group members are held. The ...

Last week’s terrorist attack in the heart of Paris has not only rightly refocused the world’s attention on the dangers that the Islamic State represents–it has also upended the presidential ...