Midday on June 28, a suicide bomber struck a checkpoint outside a military camp in the town of Indanan, on the restive southern Philippine island of Sulu. Moments later, a second bomb exploded. The ...

In the Philippines, the recent beheading of a Canadian citizen re-focused attention on Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaida-linked group, that now, some say is... Analysts Probe Whether Abu Sayyaf Has Pledged ...

A deadly plane crash in the Philippines. By Amelia Nierenberg At least 50 people, including three civilians on the ground, were killed in the accident, and it was feared that the toll would climb. By ...

The White House said President Barack Obama ordered the overnight raid that killed Abu Sayyaf. US officials said his wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured in the raid and was being held in Iraq. A young ...

(PRESCOTT, Ariz.) — The family of Kayla Mueller, a humanitarian worker from Arizona who was held captive, tortured and killed by ISIS, said it brought them great solace to know that the U.S military ...

A court has sentenced to life 17 Islamic militants for kidnapping 21 people, including European tourists and Asian workers, from a dive resort in Malaysia more than two decades ago. The Filipino ...

The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, got a firsthand look today at the devastation from a cathedral bombing in the southern city of Jolo. The explosion, during Sunday Mass, killed at ...

WASHINGTON — The wife of a now-deceased Islamic State leader was charged Monday for her alleged role in last year's death of American aid worker Kayla Jean Mueller. Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, 25, ...

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Arizona. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener) WASHINGTON -- American hostage Kayla Mueller was ...

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Before her death earlier this year, American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by the top leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to counter-terrorism officials.

At the height of Islamic State’s rule, Umm Sayyaf would regularly prepare her home in eastern Syria to receive her husband’s friend. When the bearded man in the black robe arrived she would make tea ...