BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The new leader of Islamic State, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security ...

A New York man accused of plotting an attack on behalf of the Islamic State group in 2019 has been sentenced to nine years in ...

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to attempting to join the Islamic State group. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan changed his plea ...

BAGHDAD -- The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northeastern Syria and huge tracts of neighboring Iraq formally declared the establishment of a new Islamic state Sunday and demanded ...

Since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009, more than 19,000 churches have been destroyed or shut down, and nearly 15 ...

Islamic State in Somalia is headed by Abdulkadir Mumin, who formed the offshoot of Islamic State when he left the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group nine years ago. Image by lightstock via iStock The ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave as a way of promoting religious tolerance. The compound in Tirana, the ...

At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured after a driver plowed a car into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street in New Orleans in the early morning on New Year's Day The FBI identified ...

Former al Qaeda member Ahmed al-Sharaa leads Syria's fragile transition after toppling Assad, facing sectarian violence and ...

The president called on Congress to pass a war authorization tailored to the fight against the Islamic State during Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech, a request he’s made before that’s largely ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities were on the lookout on Monday for a Malaysian who could be the new leader of pro-Islamic State groups in Southeast Asia, security chiefs said, following the ...