The battle-hardened Army commander nominated to take over U.S. military operations in Afghanistan warns Congress that if America leaves the fight too rapidly, there is a risk Islamic State militants could merge with al-Qaida and plan attacks against the U.S. Lt. Gen. Scott Miller, a former Army Delta commando who heads U.S. Joint Special Operations Command, tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that, if confirmed, he'll reassess the troop numbers in Afghanistan to see if the force size is right.

An Islamic State-inspired extremist plotted a "full frontal assault" on Downing Street in a bid to kill Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide bomb attack, the Old Bailey heard today.

April 24, 2018 11:24 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook on Monday (April 23) said new detection tools wielded by its counterterrorism team are quickly detecting and removing extremist propaganda for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group and al-Qaeda.

April 24, 2018 5:00 AM
BRUSSELS • A Belgian judge has sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shoot-out with police in Brussels in 2016.

April 24, 2018 5:00 AM
WASHINGTON • In his first statement in 10 months, a spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has called for violence against neighbouring Arab nations, suggesting that the militant group's focus was turning closer to home.

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visited West Mosul on Saturday (16 June 2018), less than a year after the city's liberation from the Islamic State group. (June 16)

Waheba Issa Dais, a homemaker and mother of seven, was arrested this week by the FBI on a charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

An attorney for a Wisconsin woman accused of trying to plan terrorist attacks through hacked social media accounts says his client is lonely and wanted companionship online but never posed a real threat.

A mother and daughter that formed Britain's first all-female Islamic State terror cell have been jailed over an Alice In Wonderland-inspired plot.

A Wisconsin woman is accused of trying to plan terrorist attacks with hacked social media accounts used to show self-proclaimed members of the Islamic State how to make explosives and poisons.