One of the important ISIL chieftains and his deputy were killed during a drone attack in the Iraq-Syria border area.

Protests are taking place across the United Kingdom calling for the ban on Palestine Action to be reversed, amid police ...

The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, has pressed Iraqi children into military service since the militants seized Mosul and other parts of Iraq in 2014.

Airport, which has not been operational since the group seized Mosul in 2014, will have a main terminal and VIP lounge.

ISIL leaders have complicated targeting by flying their black flags over residential buildings, inviting airstrikes so that they can blame the U.S.-led coalition for killing civilians, ...

ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Todd followed up with, "Obviously, if you're going to defeat ISIS, you have used very much stronger language." ...

By pulling our forces out of Iraq in 2011, Mr. Obama claimed, he “ended the war.” Three years later, the winner of that war is a barbarous Islamist army that has seized the northern half of ...

ISIL’s virtual planners allow the group to effectively seize ownership over what would previously have been considered lone wolf attacks. By creating a bridge between potential militants and the ...

The White House, Pentagon and the State Department all call the group ISIL, while many news organizations refer to the group as ISIS, and the group itself says it is simply the Islamic State.

Hence ISIL. The group recently dropped Iraq and al-Sham from its name, becoming simply the Islamic State (IS), a shift that points to territorial ambitions beyond the region. President Obama and ...