The United Nations has confirmed that the Temple of Bel -- an ancient stone ruin, which has been the focal point of religious observation in Palmyra, Syria for nearly 2,000 years – has been destroyed by ISIS.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday discussed the atrocities gays and lesbians suffer under ISIS occupation, as the body tackled a gay-rights issue for the first time in its 70-year history.
ISIS militants have beheaded a world renowned antiquities scholar in the Syrian city of Palmyra. ISIS militants have beheaded a world-renowned antiquities scholar in the Syrian city of Palmyra.
Turkey has attacked Islamic State targets in Syria, joining the fight against the Islamic extremist group. The Turkish Air Force released a video taken from the attacking F-16s.
The Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS or Daesh, released a new video on Saturday showing the mass execution of over 20 soldiers at the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra.
ISIS terrorists have beheaded two women and a man whom they accused of "sorcery," Reuters said based on reports by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The incident marks the first time the terror group, which controls large swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq, has decapitated female civilians.
The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that Massachusetts native Keith Broomfield became the first U.S. citizen to be killed while fighting alongside the Kurds against the terror group known as the Islamic State or ISIS.
On Thursday Maamoun Abdulkarim, a Syrian official, called upon the international community to help in protecting the 2,000-year-old ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra, which was being threatened by advancing Isis militants.
The U.S. military has confirmed that it has lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone that had been flying over northwestern Syria and which forces loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad claim to have shut down.
With more than 20,000 foreigners known to have joined ISIS, the U.S. intelligence community is increasingly concerned about American citizens who decide to fight alongside the terrorist group. Charges against two men accused of aiding the organization were released on Wednesday.
ISIS militants have abducted at least 90 men, women and children from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, according to reports by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Some 4,200 refugees have been rescued from the frigid waters of the Mediterranean Sea over the course of just five days, suggesting a record-setting surge in migrants. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned that the situation off Italy's coastlines was "out of control."
The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday accused the ISIS terror group of using organ harvesting as a way to finance its operations and asked the U.N. Security Council to take action.
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.
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.
