Tag: ISIL

The death toll from a weekend attack on a gendarmerie post in northern Burkina Faso has risen to at least 53, according to officials. The...

With Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and other terrorist groups attempting to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for their own ends, the international community...

Despite serious military setbacks, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) may still have around 20,000 fighters and continues its...

It's happening almost all over the world: Teenagers are lying to their parents, secretly saving up money, getting passports and sneaking away...

Despite much commentary to the contrary, the Islamic State is steadily losing ground. It has already lost three quarters of the border between...

French President Francois Hollande called on Wednesday for an international conference to discuss ways of tackling Islamic State insurgents who have seized...

Islamist militants surged across northern Iraq toward the capital of the Kurdish region on Thursday, sending tens of thousands of Christians fleeing...

Militants from the hardline Islamic State group have seized one of the last remaining government bases in the northern province of Raqqa,...

Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, Islamic State insurgents are getting dangerously close to...

Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major...

Islamic State, the al Qaeda spin-off that seized wide swathes of Iraq almost unopposed last month, has released a video warning Iraqi...

A Sudanese Salafi group in a statement on Thursday endorsed the Islamic State militant group that declared a caliphate after it swept...

Islamic State militants seized four small oilfields when they swept through north Iraq last month and are now selling crude oil and...

Using its own version of "soft" and "hard" power, the Islamic State is crushing resistance across northern Iraq so successfully that its...

The United Nations accused Islamic State fighters in Iraq of executions, rape and forced recruitment of children during a campaign to seize...

The Afghan Taliban have urged Muslims to avoid extremism and remain united, a message apparently aimed at the Islamic State (ISIL), which...

Iraq's new parliament put off its next session for five weeks on Monday, extending the country's political paralysis amid a Sunni Islamist...

Around 30 Islamic State fighters broke out of a makeshift jail where rival Syrian Islamists had been holding them, a monitoring group...

Thirty-two truck drivers abducted by Islamist militants in Iraq three weeks ago arrived home in Turkey on Thursday, and Turkish foreign minister...

The Iraqi army drove Sunni insurgents out of late dictator Saddam Hussein's home village, state media and police said, part of a...