The Islamic State is staging a resurgence in parts of Syria and Iraq, with fighters regrouping in cities and testing weakened ...

Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime ...

U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop ...

Fears are mounting that Islamic State fighters are regrouping in Syria and Iraq, exploiting security gaps to revive ...

Iraq was already facing a crisis prior to the Israeli airstrikes on Iran and Iran’s retaliation. In May, the autonomous ...

Developments over this last weekend have left many Americans (and many of our allies) wondering about the progress (or lack thereof) of our fight against ISIS. First ...

The group renamed itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and launched a military campaign during which it captured large parts of Syria and Iraq. In early June 2014, the group captured ...

Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the Islamic State group. The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern ...

BAGHDAD — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces ...

shortening its name from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL — the acronym used by the Obama administration and the British Foreign Office to this day. The Levant can refer to all countries ...

US-backed Kurdish forces who fought IS are worried as Washington scales down the presence of its forces in Syria, as US troops pulled out of two more bases ...