Fight against ISIL: Syrian government reclaims city of Palmyra
The Syrian government has reclaimed the historic city of Palmyra to fight against ISIL.
Read More...The Syrian government has reclaimed the historic city of Palmyra to fight against ISIL.
Read More...The Pakistani government said it will launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamic militants.
Read More...Syria said it has won the Battle of Palmyra, handing ISIL a major blow. The Army says the last ISIL militants have now retreated.
Read More...Government forces have moved into Palmyra, Syria in an offensive to take back the city from ISIL.
Read More...Brussels was still on heightened alert Saturday, days after terror attacks killed 28 at the airport and a metro station.
Read More...The Latest on the suicide bombings in Brussels (all times local):
Read More...U.S. forces killed a senior Islamic State leader, among several key members of the militant group eliminated this week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
Read More...Below is a glance at key suspects in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris and Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels. The suspects are believed to have been part of a cell linked to the Islamic State group, which claims responsibility for the attacks.
Read More...Families of people still missing following the Brussels terror attacks are turning to social media to find any shred of information.
Read More...The Latest on explosions at Brussels airport and metro station (all times local).
Read More...A major development in the Brussels Terror Attacks. The person who authorities believe made the bombs in both the Brussels and Paris attacks is now believed to be dead.
Read More...Brussels is a city in mourning. Overwhelmed in grief, people gathered to pay tribute to those killed and wounded in Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.
Read More...The Islamic State, Daesh, ISIS, ISIL. CCTV America’s Jim Spellman breaks down the most feared terrorist organization in the world.
Read More...Belgian authorities searched Wednesday for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers, amid growing suggestions that the bombings of the Brussels airport and subway were the work of the same Islamic State cell that attacked Paris last year.
Read More...Air and rail operations in Brussels were temporarily suspended and a massive manhunt is underway as Belgian police hunt for a suspect caught on airport closed-circuit cameras this morning, walking beside two other suspects.
Read More...Some images from the attack in Brussels and the all too familiar aftermath of grief and solidarity.
Read More...Salah Abdeslam, the Belgian-born Frenchman who was arrested Friday in a police raid in Brussels’ Molenbeek neighborhood, had crisscrossed central and southern Europe before taking part in the Paris terror attacks — then going on the lam as Europe’s most-wanted fugitive.
Read More...For more on the latest updates on the Brussels terror attacks follow along here. Update 4:23 p.m.: The Transportation Security Administration will send additional security to major city airports and various rail and transit stations around the U.S., according to a statement from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh […]
Read More...A suicide attack in the heart of Istanbul. Four are killed, in addition to the bomber, with more than 30 wounded.
Read More...The lead suspect in the November Paris terror attacks has been moved from a hospital in Brussels to a high security prison in Bruges. Salah Abdeslam was arrested after a shootout with police.
Read More...The United Nation’s Syria envoy wrapped up a fractious week of peace talks. U.N.’s Steffan De Mistura called on the Syrian government to offer clear proposals for a political transition, and said agreeing on plans for a unity government was the most daunting obstacle to […]
Read More...After an intense four-month manhunt across Europe and beyond, police on Friday captured the top fugitive in the Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up.
Read More...The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq earlier this week said he made “a bad decision” in joining the IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station.
Read More...The Obama administration on Thursday formally concluded the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, a declaration long sought by Congress and human rights organizations but likely to change little in the conflict against the extremists.
Read More...Secretary of State John Kerry will miss this week’s congressional deadline for deciding whether atrocities by the Islamic State against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria should be designated genocide, the State Department said Wednesday.
Read More...Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, one day after a police sniper killed a gunman holed up inside and authorities found a stock of ammunition and an Islamic State flag there, […]
Read More...Top Islamic State commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday.
Read More...The U.N. special envoy for Syria restarted peace talks between the government and the opposition on Monday, warning that the only alternative is a return to war and describing the political transition in the country now led by President Bashar Assad was “the mother of […]
Read More...Two top Communist Party officials from the Xinjiang Region said security there has improved in the past year and passport restrictions have been lifted.
Read More...The U.S. military targeted a senior Islamic State commander in an airstrike in northeastern Syria last week, officials said Tuesday.
Read More...What took place over the weekend in Somalia is part of what is known in the West as the “Global War on Terror” — many aspects of which are part of an invisible campaign led by the United States to neutralize Islamic insurgents wherever they may […]
Read More...A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
Read More...The international community met Monday in Geneva to shore up the shaky cessation of violence in Syria and pave a way to the resumption peace talks. While all sides are reporting some incidents of shelling and bombing, Syria is overall calmer than it has been […]
Read More...A ceasefire in Syria could be hours or days away according to the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Read More...American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative considered responsible for deadly attacks in Tunisia last year, U.S. and local officials said. The strike did not appear to mark […]
Read More...Turkey has accused several of its enemies of carrying out the suicide bombing on Wednesday in Ankara that killed at least 28 people. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blames the attack on the Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey’s own outlawed Kurdish rebel group, and the Syrian […]
Read More...Diplomats trying to secure a ceasefire for the civil war in Syria fell short in organizing an immediate truce but agreed to try to work out details and implement a temporary “cessation of hostilities” in the coming week.
Read More...German police have arrested three Algerians suspected of planning a terrorist attack in Berlin. One of them appears to have entered the country posing as a Syrian refugee, which could put more pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, amid growing backlash at her asylum policies.
Read More...January 25 marks the five year anniversary of a revolution that saw President Hosni Mubarak toppled in Egypt. Authorities have boosted security across the county amid fears of bombings. Militant groups have increased their attacks in the country since the army ousted former president Mohamed […]
Read More...Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery has been completely destroyed by ISIL militants.
Read More...Taliban gunmen stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gun battle with the army and police before the military declared the assault in a town near the city of Peshawar was over.
Read More...Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group’s relentless destruction of heritage sites it […]
Read More...ISIL is looking to the Philippines for potential recruits. Footage recently uploaded online shows jihadist training camps and a gathering of different armed groups from the south. They’ve been seen pledging allegiance to the terror group.
Read More...In Morocco, a suspect in custody who is linked to the November Paris terrorist attacks.
Read More...The Al-Qaida fighters who stormed a popular hangout in Burkina Faso’s capital at dinnertime came with a mission to kill as many people as possible, firing at people as they moved to a nearby hotel and setting the cafe ablaze, survivors and officials said Saturday.
Read More...Islamic State group backers have circulated a claim of responsibility for the Indonesian suicide attacks resembling the extremist group’s previous messages.
Read More...A suicide bomber affiliated with the Islamic State group detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people — nine of them German tourists — and wounding 15 others, Turkish officials said.
Read More...More than 30 countries are involved in the fight against Islamic State – but how many of those make a material difference on the ground? In February, Denmark will send just 120 soldiers to Anbar province.
Read More...The French gathered to honor victims of last year’s Islamist militant attacks as the president, prime minister, and mayor of Paris laid a wreath at a statue symbolizing the French Republic.
Read More...ISIL’s presence in Libya is a growing concern for the European Union. The EU is urging Libyan politicians to back a unity government, following suicide attacks claimed by ISIL.
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