The organisation owes its origin to the ill-advised and ill-conceived invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003.

At least five prisoners who supported Islamic State were killed after attacking guards with knives and trying to break out of a jail in Tajikistan, a law enforcement source said.

China had lodged "solemn representations" with the Afghan Taliban government after a mine worker was killed in an attack ...

The Syrian conflict highlights the devastating impact of foreign interventions, proxy wars, and ideological ambitions, ...

David Lavery, who is well known for helping Afghans flee to Canada, was freed after nearly three months of detention ...

A prison riot in Tajikistan resulted in the deaths of five Islamic State-linked prisoners after they attacked guards with knives ...

"By carrying a ISIS flag with him during ... It is fighting Afghanistan's Taliban government which it regards as insufficiently strict in enforcing the Islamic way of life on the country's citizens.

The FBI said Jabbar had an Islamic State flag on his truck and view the attack as a potential act of terrorism. The Islamic State, or Isis, is a Sunni Muslim militant group which has carried out ...

Moscow wants India to join a coalition alongside its old adversaries, plus Iran - but New Delhi doesn't seem all that keen India is expected to reject Russia's offer to join the "Afghan Quad", a ...

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told Newsweek.

After the Taliban seized Kabul, Afghanistan staggered under the weight of sanctions and other kinds of economic and diplomatic isolation. Other governments failed to act with sufficient speed and ...