shortening its name from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL — the acronym used by the Obama administration and the British Foreign Office to this day. The Levant can refer to all countries ...

Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime ...

Developments over this last weekend have left many Americans (and many of our allies) wondering about the progress (or lack thereof) of our fight against ISIS. First ...

Fears are mounting that Islamic State fighters are regrouping in Syria and Iraq, exploiting security gaps to revive ...

The Islamic State is staging a resurgence in parts of Syria and Iraq, with fighters regrouping in cities and testing weakened ...

A Houthi source told Newsweek that any attack on Iran "will drag the entire region into the abyss of war" amid escalation ...

BAGHDAD — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces ...

By Malik Samuel With foreign expertise now reshaping battlefield dynamics in the Lake Chad Basin, and raising the stakes for regional security, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is ...

Iraq has approached the Iranian and US governments in a bid to prevent being caught up in the escalating conflict between ...