Experts say the Islamic State of Africa’s militant agenda threatens South Africa’s democracy and constitutional values.

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...

A teenage Islamic extremist has pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist gun attack. Muhammad Billal, 18, was arrested on 11 ...

DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a statement that his office, along with the FBI, “prevented what could ...

The Islamic State in Somalia broke away from al-Shabab in 2015; its secretive, henna-bearded leader, Abdulqadir Mumin, is now the Islamic State’s global caliph, the U.S. military says.

The Islamic State, seeing an opportunity to mitigate its losses elsewhere, forged a formal relationship with the Mozambique group in 2019 and has since featured it alongside other African ...

Ethiopia has arrested dozens of suspected Islamic State militants, who it claimed have been trained and deployed to carry out operations across the country, the state-affiliated Fana broadcaster ...

The Islamic State’s various names over the years suggest this tension. Jihadist groups took off in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, and many coalesced around Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, ...

The Islamic State group lso is known as both IS and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It began as a breakaway group from al-Qaida. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ...

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet for a video released on April 29. (AP) Christian C. Sahner is associate professor of Islamic ...

The Islamic State’s ruthless credo and military successes helped spur affiliated groups in Africa, Asia and Europe. It’s a greatly decentralized alliance. Advertisement.