Fact Check: Old photo of missiles falsely linked to April 21 Iraqi rocket attack

A photo from 2015 shared on social media hours after rockets were launched from northern Iraq targeting a U.S. military base in northeastern Syria on April 21, 2024, is not related to the incident. Read More

Horrifying Islamic State attack is a warning to the world

The 41-minute diatribe titled “By Allah, this matter will be made possible” called for renewed attacks on Western forces inside Iraq and Syria. It instructed Islamic State fighters in the ... Read More

Islamic State-linked fighters kill at least a dozen civilians, including children, in eastern Congo

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army says extremist-linked rebels have killed at least a dozen people in a raid on a rural community in the volatile east ... to the Islamic State group have ... Read More

Islamic State jihadists ‘execute’ eight Syrian soldiers after desert ambush

Islamic State (IS ... runs from the outskirts of Damascus to the Iraqi border, mainly setting their sights on pro-government forces and Kurdish-led fighters. IS cells “executed eight members ... Read More

Syria: Top Iraqi militant leader killed in Islamic State attack in Syria, says HTS

Abu Maria al-Qahtani had been Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's second-in-command despite being detained by his own group in August Fighters from Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), headed by ex-members of Syria's ... Read More

Reluctant Islamic State fighters choose between death, jail

While foreigners from across the world have joined the Islamic State militant group, some find day-to-day life in Iraq ... Associated Press talked to more than a dozen former fighters, their ... Read More