Fragile security in prison camps leads to escape of IS fighters

The militant group said in a statement posted on its Aamaq news agency late Monday that a suicide bomber entered a restaurant frequented by Chinese nationals in the city and detonated an explosive vest during a gathering.

In the so-called world of strategic alliances, things often are not what they seem to be. It is that way with the Islamic State or ISIS, which supposedly is a

Just over a decade ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) held vast swaths of territory across Iraq and Syria, carried out attacks that shocked the world, and regularly flooded social media with gruesome videos depicting the beheadings of orange ...

CAIRO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack on a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in Kabul. An explosion tore through the restaurant in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan's capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six Afghans and injuring several others, including a child, officials said.

On Dec. 14 when two gunmen targeted a public celebration of the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in the Australian city of Sydney and killed 15 people, it was the worst mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Aurther massacre in Tasmania.

The near collapse of the U.S.’s Kurdish allies has prompted the Pentagon to question the benefits of stationing troops in Syria.