Islamic State

The Syrian army has restored control over all areas surrounding the capital Damascus, it said on Monday, for the first time since early in the seven-(...)

India’s supreme court on Thursday permitted a Hindu woman who converted to Islam to live with her Muslim husband. Federal investigators had accused (...)

Islamic State’s rout in the northeastern Iraqi town of Hawija last week heralded the jihadi group’s demise as an ideological, political, military and (...)

A teenager is in custody and an evacuation has been mounted by counter-terror officers investigating the Parsons Green bombing. Police are searching (...)

A postmortem was being carried out on Sunday to determine whether a suspected Islamic extremist was drunk or high on drugs when he took a soldier host(...)

Clashes, shelling and air raids in western Syria marred a Russian- and Turkish-backed ceasefire that aims to end nearly six years of war and lead to p(...)

A Polish truck driver whose hijacked vehicle was used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market was shot in the head several hours before the attack and(...)

Rebels outside Aleppo have launched the opening salvo of a battle aimed at breaking the siege of the opposition-controlled east of the city. Opposi(...)

Up to 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to fumes from a sulphur plant set ablaze during fighting with Islamic State in nort(...)

Boko Haram Islamist have released 21 of more than 200 girls kidnapped in 2014 in the northern town of Chibok. “The release of the girls . . . is the (...)