U.S. Central Command said two of the dead were senior militants affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria. Sep 29, 2024 ...

Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Baghdad Monday, as the country is tearing itself apart. In a nearly two-hour meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Kerry said the U.S ...

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant- Libya was established in November 2014 when then-ISIL emir Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali Al-Badri Al-Samarrai (QDi.299 ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is an Islamist insurgent group active in both Iraq and Syria that pledged allegiance to al Qaeda in 2004.

The conflict in Syria has seen the rise to prominence of an Islamist militant group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). ISIS - the final 'S' refers to al-Sham, an Arabic word ...

April 2013 — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, announces the merger of his group with al-Qaida's franchise in Syria, forming the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ...

As for "Tawhid," this word ought to tell us something about the jihad. The propaganda of the Islamic State of Syria and al-Sham, which you can find on YouTube and other places, puts a bizarre and ...

Some people call it the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Others call it the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Why does the Al Qaeda splinter group have more than one name?

A lightning offensive by the Sunni group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, in the past three days has sparked the biggest crisis Iraq has faced since it plunged into sectarian violence ...

(RNS) The militant group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it will now be known as The Islamic State. (RNS) An al-Qaida breakaway group that seized large swaths of Iraq in ...

The Islamic State is the latest and most powerful incarnation of what began as an Al Qaeda affiliate in Iraq following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.