The collapse of the American-backed government in Yemen took the U.S. intelligence community by surprise, the Obama administration's senior counterterrorism official admitted on Thursday as he testified before Congress.
For the first time, Egypt has acknowledged military action in Libya. Egyptian jets bombed ISIS targets in Libya on Monday, the day after a video surfaced showing Islamic State members beheading 21 Egyptian Christians, reports Reuters.
ISIS militants who on Thursday seized most of a western Iraqi town are now just miles away from an air base where hundreds of U.S. Marines are training local forces.
President Barack Obama has submitted to Congress a draft bill to allow limited military action against ISIS for three years. The bill allows for continued airstrikes as well as limited troop operations, avoiding a large-scale invasion and mass troop deployments. On Wednesday, President Obama submitted the draft Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against ISIS.
President Barack Obama published his Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) letter to Congress to help “degrade and defeat” the Islamic State militant group.
Both the U.S. government and Kayla Mueller's family have confirmed the American aid worker held captive by ISIS is dead. The news comes days after ISIS claimed Jordanian bombings had killed the hostage, though the U.S. and coalition forces were skeptical. No information on how Mueller died has been released.
Denis Mamadou Gerhard Cuspert, known best by his stage name "Deso Dogg," is a former rapper who released three albums while signed with Streetlife Entertainment in Germany.
A former Taliban commander who recently defected from the fundamentalist movement to join the ISIS terror group has been killed in southern Afghanistan.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas recently stated he would put U.S. troops on the ground in the Middle East to fight against ISIS if it was necessary to "accomplish the mission."
The United States is "on the road" to defeating ISIS, the Islamist terror organization feared for its brutality, Secretary of State told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
The FBI and Justice Department found the group was sending money and supplies, such as combat clothes and firearms accessories, to ISIS fighters in Syria.
A bystander was killed on Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city. Meanwhile, authorities defused two more explosive devices at Cairo International Airport.
In an interview, Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham proposed that the U.S. send thousands of troops to win the fight against Islamic extremist group ISIS. Now, presidential hopeful Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has expressed the same sentiment.
An Egyptian court on Monday confirmed the death sentences of 183 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood who were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the town of Kardasa in mid-2013.
The Islamist terror group ISIS on Friday launched a major assault on Kirkuk. The organization, which calls itself the "Islamic State" and controls large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq, is apparently renewing its efforts to take the city 147 miles north of Baghdad.
The Libyan branch of ISIS on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the attack on a Tripoli luxury hotel that had killed 10 people on Tuesday. The group called itself the "Islamic State in Tripoli Province," in reference to the "Islamic State" moniker used by ISIS, the terror organization that controls large swaths of land in Syria in Iraq.
The fate of two Japanese hostages held by the Islamist terror group ISIS was unclear on Friday after a deadline to pay ransom for their release had passed. The "Islamic State, which controls large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria, had demanded $200 million to free them.
On Friday, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud vowed to the policies of his predecessor, the late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, as he took over the reign of Saudi Arabia, one of the closest Middle East allies of the United States. The new ruler called for unity among his region's countries in a period of widespread unrest.
The risk of an ISIS terror attack in Britain is "very significant," Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned on Thursday. His countrymen ought to be on the lookout to "disrupt ... plots before they come to the stage of an attack," he added.
