Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new ...

Iran says it executed nine militants of the Islamic State group detained after a 2018 attack. The Iranian judiciary's Mizan ...

Joe Sacco would like to be back as head coach of the Bruins on a permanent basis, but hasn't been told what his future holds from the Boston brass. A "vicious dog" evaded police officers near the ...

The dreaded terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in South-East Asia (ISIL-SEA) has been designated as a global terrorist organisation by the United Nations ...

Baghdadi follows in 2013, breaking with al Qaeda and renaming his group 'The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant'. ** 2014 - Its year of sudden success starts by seizing Fallujah in Iraq and ...

Its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said his group will now be known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Since then, the English-speaking world seems to have had a hard time settling on a name ...

the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has taken over from the al-Qa’ida organisation founded by Osama bin Laden as the most powerful and effective extreme jihadi group in the world.

Others call it the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Why does the Al Qaeda splinter group have more than one name? Because the group, which in recent days has seized large swaths of ...

The group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), has employed a calculated strategy to achieve its aims. But it is the group's military prowess that has brought under its sway ...

The conflict in Syria has seen the rise to prominence of an Islamist militant group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). ISIS - the final 'S' refers to al-Sham, an Arabic word ...