A former ISIL recruiter in a McCreary County prison was convicted of attempted murder after stabbing his cellmate 30 times ...

On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christmas market in one of Berlin’s main public squares, killing 12 people. The following day, the Amaq News Agency of the Islamic State ...

Soldiers rescued the civilian captives who were being held by the Allied Democratic Forces, a group linked with ISIL.

ISIL (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Syrian army, representing the armed group’s first strike at government forces since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, according to analysts. In a ...

Iraqi Kurdistan has a 650-mile front with the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and hosts almost 2 million refugees and internally displaced ...

WASHINGTON, (Jan. 13, 2016) -- Delivering a lasting defeat to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, must be a global effort, and coalition partners and others must step up their ...

Fourteen years ago, the United States suffered a shockingly successful surprise attack by a little known Islamic extremist group based 7,000 miles away in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Since then, a ...

Four years ago last week, an al Qaeda splinter group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant declared the formation of a global caliphate. Throughout 2014, ISIL acquired a broad swath ...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he's hoping this year to drive the Islamic State out of the two largest and most important cities in its self-proclaimed caliphate, Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.

Around this time last year, President Obama addressed the U.S. public to outline his administration’s policy towards the Islamic State. It was a speech that Obama was no doubt reluctant to make given ...