The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...

A teenage Islamic extremist has pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist gun attack. Muhammad Billal, 18, was arrested on 11 ...

A Lombard teen has been charged with plotting to commit a terrorist act at a Glendale Heights Islamic Center, according to ...

Experts say the Islamic State of Africa’s militant agenda threatens South Africa’s democracy and constitutional values.

The Islamic State’s various names over the years suggest this tension. Jihadist groups took off in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, and many coalesced around Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...

The Islamic State’s leader, the self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, spent time in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq. Cells organized within them, ...

The Islamic State group lso is known as both IS and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ...

Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of ...

The Islamic State had already returned to its insurgency roots before Qurayshi took over, so he may have not seen a need to manage operations, especially when increased involvement would come with ...

A Lombard teen has been charged with plotting to commit an act of terror at a Glendale Heights Islamic Center.

The Islamic State’s ruthless credo and military successes helped spur affiliated groups in Africa, Asia and Europe. It’s a greatly decentralized alliance. Advertisement.