On Monday U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had a meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, to evaluate Turkey's contribution to the coalition to fight the Islamic State.
The Islamic State, which already has a large presence of international fighters and strong allure abroad, has begun to export its tactics and techniques, teaching Islamist radicals in Egypt how to carry out terrorist attacks.
China is the latest member of a club that includes dozens of countries that have had their citizens fight on behalf of the Islamic State as it seeks to establish an Islamic Caliphate.
The authorities in Bosnia have arrested 16 people they claim have gone to fight for radical Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq at a time the issue of foreigners fighting in those conflicts has seized the attention of the media and governments around the world.
The terrorist group the Islamic State has released a grisly video showing the execution of a second U.S. hostage less than three weeks after they released a similar video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
The New York Times reports that the U.S. citizen was known as Douglas McAuthur McCain. McCain seems to have lived what seemed like the average life of a U.S. teenager before suddenly joining the jihadists of the Islamic State.
The government of Qatar is using its close relationships with radical Islamist groups throughout the Middle East in an effort to free a number of U.S. citizens who are currently being held hostage.
President Barack Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syrian territory, the first step in the process of launching airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria.
Numerous media reports say that British intelligence agencies have identified the British Islamic State jihadist filmed murdering the U.S. journalist James Foley.
A new report suggests that the Islamic State knew of the impending U.S. Special Forces operation to rescue the murdered journalist James Foley before they had even parachuted into Syrian territory.
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the headquarters of Iraq's intelligence agency one day after a sectarian massacre has brought the possibility of establishing an inclusive Iraqi government into doubt.
A Shiite militia has massacred at least 50 Sunnis as they gathered to pray in a village mosque in the Iraqi province of Diyala.
In early summer 2014, United States Special Forces soldiers carried out a failed operation to try to rescue journalist James Foley and others from Islamic State captivity.
Airstrikes by the United States on various targets and positions of the Islamic State have enabled Kurdish pesh merga and Iraqi Special Forces to retake control of the Mosul Dam, one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in all of Iraq.
The terrorist group known as the Islamic State, which has seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, has beheaded an American journalist named James Wright Foley and is threatening to murder another named Steven Sotloff.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
