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Jerusalem Post Middle East Islamic State claims its first attacks on new Syrian gov’t as bombs allegedly kill soldiers While the Syrian government said it conducted two raids in Damascus earlier ...

The Islamic State, which controlled large parts of Iraq and Syria a decade ago until U.S. and allied Syrian forces largely defeated it, has continued a low-level insurgency in eastern Syria since ...

This week, Islamic State in Somalia said it conducted an attack with 12 militants and two booby-trapped vehicles that killed more than 20 military personnel. It was that ISIS offshoot’s largest ...

By: Catrina Doxsee, Jared Thompson and Grace Hwang The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is a branch of the Islamic State active in Central and South Asia. This piece provides an overview of ISKP ...

Muumin is not. Second, the Islamic State in Somalia is the smallest of the Islamic State provinces in Africa. It is likely that a leader of a stronger province would have ranked higher.

The Islamic State (IS) garnered global media attention in 2014, when its forces scored a series of sweeping battlefield victories and territorial gains across swathes of Iraq and Syria.

A strike on al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of people brought renewed attention to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also known as PIJ, which Israel blamed for the Oct. 17 explosion.

CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts. For Muslims, it’s a time of ...

Newsletter: Essential Arts: What Europe’s Gothic architecture took from Islamic design French President Emmanuel Macron, center, visits Paris’ Notre Dame reconstruction site in April.