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WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has been trying to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to abandon his support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, using its dominance of the…
“It is a common threat for all of us,” he said. “And this requires a unison effort from all of us.” “We need a vast campaign of operations … the…
WASHINGTON — To the young Syrian rebel fighter, the Skype message in early December 2013 appeared to come from a woman in Lebanon, named Iman Almasri, interested in his cause….
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An explosion on Sunday ripped apart a bus carrying Lebanese pilgrims to Shiite shrines in Damascus, Syria, killing at least six people and wounding 27, official news…
A Kurdish fighter in the town of Kobani, Syria, which was devastated by the Islamic State and an American-led air campaign to expel the militants.” KOBANI, Syria — Lasheen Abdulla…
On Monday, Kurdish fighters declared that they had released the city on the border to Turkey from ISIS’ grip after 112 days of fighting. The efforts of the Kurdish fighters…
An escaped Islamic State child soldier in Sanliurfa, Turkey, shows the scar on his neck to a reporter on Jan. 27. He says a bullet grazed his neck during battle….
Yet, in his mind, he had to go into war-torn Syria. The experienced journalist explained why in a video shot in October from southern Turkey. He felt compelled to tell…
A missile fired by the Lebanese Hezbollah group struck an Israeli military convoy on Wednesday, killing two soldiers in an apparent retaliation for a deadly airstrike attributed to Israel that…
The post shows an image of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding a picture that appears to be of Moaz al-Kassasbeh, the pilot captured by ISIS last month after his jet…
Speaking at a news conference in Paris, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said “a new blow has been dealt to terrorism” with the arrests in the Herault region. Police units…
At least two rockets launched from Syria struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Tuesday and Israel responded with artillery fire, the Israeli military said. – Israel believes most fire is…
Anti-terror raids in France and Belgium netted eight more suspects on Tuesday as Paris urged its European Union partners to step up the fight against terror financing with new measures…
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…
Greece has become an unwitting crossroadsboth for jihadists trying to reach Iraq and Syria from Europe, and for fighters returning home from the Middle East. Greece’s long land and maritime…
BRUSSELS — When Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian-born son of an immigrant shopkeeper from Morocco, went to Syria a year ago to wage jihad, nobody paid much attention. He was just…
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby insisted that the figure is an estimate and not the key “metric of success,” but said coalition airstrikes and coordination with Iraqi and Kurdish forces…
When asked whether ISIS has been in negotiations with the Japanese government, the spokesman said he wouldn’t comment, NHK reported. ISIS has threatened to kill the two men — Kenji…
The widow of Paris supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly, she is believed to have disappeared into Syria in the days leading up to the shootings in Paris. Since the attacks, security…
JERUSALEM, Jan 20 (Reuters) – An Iranian general killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria was not its intended target and Israel believed it was attacking only low-ranking guerrillas,…
In a video posted online Tuesday, a masked man clad in black and holding a knife stands over two kneeling men in orange jumpsuits in a barren landscape. The masked…
WASHINGTON — An Israeli-linked airstrike in Syria on Sunday is drawing attention to an element of the messy Syrian civil war that the U.S. has tried to downplay: the Obama…
Officials are scrambling to stop the spread of terrorism and threats, with European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday to tackle the issue. “We start with obviously a…
European security services in recent weeks have received indications that the extremist group ISIS may have started directing European adherents in Syria and Iraq to launch attacks back in their…
European security services in recent weeks have received indications that the extremist group ISIS may have started directing European adherents in Syria and Iraq to launch attacks back in their…
Anbar is a western province largely controlled by ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni Muslim extremist group that has used brutal tactics such as mass…
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, had invited his family to join him in his plans to travel to join ISIS in the Mideast, authorities said. The Islamic State in Iraq and…