As the US launches its long anticipated strikes against Iran, I find my thoughts turning to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Despite mass protests against it, the invasion was popular at the time (with 54 ...

Iran’s retaliatory attacks on US assets in the region continue for a second day as fears of a wider conflict rise.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it ...

Leadership messaging points to internal discipline and network survival rather than renewed territorial expansion.

Security analyst and International relations expert, Prof Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has warned that the escalating conflict ...

Officials say that a camp in northeastern Syria that had housed families of suspected members of the Islamic State group is now largely empty after hundreds of women and children were repatriated to t ...

Emerging from the chaos of post-invasion Iraq, ISIS transformed from a splinter extremist network into a self-declared caliphate that controlled territory the size of a nation and ruled millions ...

The Islamic State group has released a new audio message that attacks Syria’s interim president and urges supporters to strike Jewish and Western targets worldwide ...

The U.S. military is reporting a series of strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria. The strikes were carried out ...

Fewer than 1,000 families remain at a camp where relatives of suspected Islamic State militants had been held in Syria's ...

Last week there were reports that the United States had imposed sanctions on eight Nigerians over alleged ties to terrorist organisations like Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...