Syrian state media and a war monitor say a U.S.-led coalition has captured a senior member of the Islamic State group in ...

U.N. counterterrorism experts warn that Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a ...

The IS jihadist group broke away from al-Qaeda more than a decade ago and attracted supporters from around the world after it ...

UN counterterrorism experts highlight the persistent threat of Islamic State extremists exploiting instability across Africa, ...

Driven from its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, the terror group has been gaining a foothold in the mountains of Somalia.

A massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has shone a spotlight on extremist groups operating across central Africa. This type of massacre is not new. Extremist groups, some of ...

The threat posed by the terrorist group ISIL - known more widely in the Middle East as Da'esh - remains dynamic and diverse, with Africa currently experiencing the highest level of activity worldwide.

Egypt’s mediaeval Mameluke rulers are the subject of this year’s summer exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The answer lies in the lawless borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan. That is now the stamping ground of the Islamic State Khorasan Province ( ISKP ), an offshoot of the group that established ...

Security video shows Kawam walking onto the bus, followed a few seconds later by his victim, whose identity is protected by a publication ban.

A US-led coalition captured a senior Islamic State member, Abu Hafs al-Qurayshi, during a pre-dawn operation in northwest ...