Syrian authorities foiled an attempt by Islamic State group jihadists to blow up a revered Shiite shrine in a Damascus suburb, a source within Syria鈥檚 intelligence agency told state news agency SANA Saturday.
US authorities were investigating Thursday after an army veteran with an Islamic State flag who was 鈥榟ellbent鈥� on carnage steered a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year鈥檚 revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens.
Afghan journalists have reported hundreds of cases of abuses by government officials, including torture and arbitrary detention, as well as tightening censorship since the Taliban authorities returned to power...
A joint operation by US and Iraqi forces killed 15 Islamic State group fighters in Iraq鈥檚 western desert, with seven US troops hurt during the operation, US Central Command said.
A 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser planned a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna designed to kill many people, the country鈥檚 intelligence agency said on Thursday...
Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had brought a siege at a prison in the southern Rostov region to a swift end, killing the Islamic State hostage-takers and freeing their two prison guard captives unharmed....
Sixteen Syrian soldiers, including an officer, have been killed in a minefield laid by the Islamic State group and an attack by the jihadists in the desert, a monitor said on Wednesday...
Islamic State group militants killed at least 15 Syrian pro-government fighters on Friday after they attacked three military positions in the Syrian desert, a war...
A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman said on Tuesday...
One person was killed and three others wounded by an explosion in Kabul on Saturday evening, Afghan police said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the sticky bomb attack...