Islamic State

Pentagon official said the 50,000 figure was a 'conservative estimate'.

Tareq Haddad Dec 10, 2016

IBTimes UK Special Report: The fighters ride to battle under wooden crucifixes and Shia paramilitary flags

Callum Paton Dec 10, 2016

Man had a large image of the Islamic State flag in his home.

Tom Porter Dec 09, 2016

The fight for northern Iraqi city is still expected to take several months.

Tareq Haddad Dec 08, 2016

The Shia stronghold held out against Isis despite relentless suicide bomb attacks.

Callum Paton Dec 07, 2016

Dozens of women and children – some of them migrants from sub-Saharan Africa held captive by Isis – escaped or were released from militant-held territory.

David Sim Dec 07, 2016

The town was the Islamist terror group's major centre of power in Northern Africa.

Sofia Lotto Persio Dec 07, 2016

The cloudy skies act in favour for the militants as they hinder air strikes and blur the vision of Iraqi forces.

Alex Wheeler Dec 02, 2016

A Europol report cautions against foreign fighters returning from Isis strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

Ananya Roy Dec 02, 2016

Islamic State has grown increasingly paranoid as senior commanders are killed.

Mark Piggott Dec 02, 2016

The UN is preparing for a worst-case scenario in which more than a million people are made homeless and food shortages set in.

Alex Wheeler Dec 01, 2016

German study finds that nearly half of returnees remain committed to extremist ideology.

Tom Porter Nov 30, 2016

President-elect previously made controversial remarks on Somali community during electoral campaign.

Ludovica Iaccino Nov 30, 2016

The group is active in Lanao del Sur province, where Duterte's security convoy was hit by a blast recently.

Ananya Roy Nov 30, 2016

The German intelligence agency, BfV, first became aware of the man's actions 4 weeks ago.

William Watkinson Nov 30, 2016

UN says it has evidence Isis dishing out brutal punishments to civilians who reject their demands.

William Watkinson Nov 29, 2016

Relatives hold hands and try to embrace through the wire fence around the camp, lifting up new babies so that their families can meet them.

David Sim Nov 29, 2016

Many residents have chosen to stay in Mosul, preferring the risk of crossfire to spending the winter in a cold displacement camp.

Alex Wheeler Nov 29, 2016

Prakash also allegedly appeared in Isis propaganda videos urging westerners to wage jihad.

Tom Porter Nov 28, 2016

Daesh fire at Israeli military patrol, which responded with an air strike reportedly killing 4 jihadis.

Tareq Haddad Nov 27, 2016

American and allied forces campaign takes out more Daesh's influential computer experts

Lucy Pasha-Robinson Nov 26, 2016

Rio Priatna Wibawa, 23, was taking orders from Bahrun Naim, the Indonesian who is fighting for Isis in Syria.

Ananya Roy Nov 26, 2016

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ananya Roy Nov 25, 2016

Ten other Turkish soldiers were wounded in the early-morning air strikes.

Callum Paton Nov 24, 2016

Iraq's defence ministry has said that Daesh media minister Ziad Kharoufa was killed in an air strike.

Ananya Roy Nov 24, 2016

Mohammed and Nazimabee Golamaully sent cash to nephew fighting Kurdish PKK, saying it was his 'Islamic obligation'

Paul Wright Nov 22, 2016

Christian militias liberating towns near Mosul find devastation in Iraq's largest monastery Mar Behnam.

Callum Paton Nov 22, 2016

Bands of Christian fighters travel across the desert in pickup trucks bearing large wooden crosses.

David Sim Nov 22, 2016

Sentencing based largely on "tainted" confessions written in Arabic, instead of their mother tongue of French.

Elsa Buchanan Nov 21, 2016

A group affiliated to the Islamic State has been conducting attacks in the Sinai peninsula since 2013.

Sofia Lotto Persio Nov 21, 2016