The number of mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least 3 times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 70s. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu ...

— The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, is a militant Sunni Muslim group whose thousands of fighters have occupied crucial swatches of Syria and have now surged across Iraq. — The group ...

The U.S. is sending an additional 300 troops to Iraq to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy and elsewhere in the Baghdad area to protect U.S. citizens and property, officials said Monday. That raises ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A key border crossing between Iraq and Syria reopened on Monday for the first time in more than a decade, with ...

In his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Stephen Biddle assesses the U.S. government’s options for responding to the advances made by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in ...

Last week’s terrorist attack in the heart of Paris has not only rightly refocused the world’s attention on the dangers that the Islamic State represents–it has also upended the presidential ...