The military gave few details on the ground operation, but counterterrorism raids have typically involved helicopter-borne ...

U.S.-led forces have killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in northwestern Syria. The U.S. Central Command announced on Friday that Dhiya Zawba Muslih al-Hardan and his two sons were killed ...

The Islamic State’s various names over the years suggest this tension. Jihadist groups took off in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, and many coalesced around Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...

The Islamic State’s leader, the self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, spent time in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq. Cells organized within them, ...

The Islamic State group lso is known as both IS and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ...

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet for a video released on April 29. (AP) Christian C. Sahner is associate professor of Islamic ...

As Western countries curtail support, the fate of one the world’s oldest state-building projects hangs in the balance. Three ...

Barrack has repeatedly stressed that the US was not dictating Syria’s form of government. He has cast his diplomacy as a test ...