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Islamic extremists are rampaging through villages in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state, killing, burning and looting with no troops deployed to protect civilians, fleeing villagers said Wednesday. More than 40 people…
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced legislation Wednesday to authorize military force against Islamic State militants — a step aimed at forcing Congress to take responsibility for a war…
AMMAN, Jordan — The father of an air force pilot appealed for King Abdullah of Jordan on Wednesday to free a female suicide bomber in exchange for the release of…
MANILA — In the aftermath of a botched raid that left 44 elite police officers dead, several key lawmakers in the Philippines have withdrawn their support for legislation that would…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed outrage and demanded Wednesday that Islamic State extremists release a Japanese journalist, as secret talks in Jordan sought the release of the Japanese and…
Sometimes it takes a superhero to conquer hate. Earlier this month, a batch of anti-Islam ads purchased by right-wing extremist blogger Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) appeared on…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Kurdish militias regained full control of the northern Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, driving Islamic State militants out with the help of American-led airstrikes, Kurdish activists…
Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose…
Six militants were killed and 11 wounded in the clashes, which raged for 12 hours in Mamasapano town, Maguindanao, police said. Members of both the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF),…
ISIS, the Sunni Muslim extremist militant group, has been fighting for Kobani for months, hoping to add it to the territory it has already controls in parts of Syria and…
President Barack Obama defended his counterterrorism strategy in tumultuous Yemen Sunday, saying efforts to root out a dangerous al-Qaida affiliate there would not be affected by the political vacuum in…
TOKYO — In the public’s mind, the two Japanese hostages held by Islamic State militants have become inextricably linked: a pair of grim-faced figures who appeared last week in a…
In fierce fighting Sunday, Nigerian troops clashed with Islamic extremists who attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria. Dozens of combatants have been killed and wounded, soldiers and hospital…
TOKYO — The Japanese government expressed outrage at an image released Saturday that purported to show the decapitated body of one of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants…
Despite the latest successes of the Iraqi Army and the forces of the Kurdish regional government, known as the peshmerga, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Iraq are facing a…
Also known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and Islamic State (IS). The aim of ISIS is to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and…
Japan promised Saturday not to give up “until the very end” on efforts to free two Japanese hostages threatened with beheading by Islamic militants demanding a $200 million ransom, after…
Japanese officials said Saturday that they were continuing efforts to win the release of two Japanese men taken hostage by the Islamic State, even though the militants’ stated deadline for…
Whatever you call the jihadist group known for killing dozens of people at a time, carrying out public executions, beheadings, crucifixions and other brutal acts, there is no denying they…
TOKYO — Making a desperate plea for her son’s life, the elderly mother of one of two Japanese hostages held by the Islamic State militant group told his kidnappers on…
Militants affiliated with the Islamic State group have posted an online warning that the “countdown has begun” for the group to kill a pair of Japanese hostages. The posting which…
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The United States and Iraq have started preparing for an offensive by summer to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was taken by Islamic…
By Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The mother of a Japanese journalist being held captive by Islamic State militants along with another Japanese citizen appealed for his safe…
WASHINGTON — Less than a month into his first term as a U.S. Senator, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton is already proving to be one of the most hardline foreign policy…
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who came to the throne in old age and earned a reputation as a cautious reformer even as the Arab Spring revolts toppled heads of…
LONDON — Battered by a sharp decline in oil prices, Iraq is asking Western allies to provide weapons on credit for its fight against the Islamic State until Baghdad is…
TOKYO — Officials here said Thursday that they were trying every possible avenue to reach the Islamic State militants who have threatened to kill two Japanese hostages but had so…
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Across a violent swath of southern Afghanistan, rumors are swirling about a band of former Taliban fighters who have claimed allegiance to the Islamic State and are…
(Adds quotes, detail, background) DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The Islamic State armed group which holds swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria issued a video online on Tuesday purporting…
France’s prime minister says the country needs to use the attacks carried out by three French Islamic extremists as a reason to look inward at “a territorial, social, and ethnic…