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

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 International Crisis Group has raised alarms about the rising threat posed by the Khorasan branch of the Islamic State (ISIS-K), stating that the group remains dangerous and active despite the ...

"NISS has been closely monitoring the group's cross-border infiltration strategies and its efforts to establish sleeper cells in Ethiopia," Fana reported.

The IEC rejected the Islamic State of Africa's application, saying it did not meet the required threshold for signatures to ...

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, ...

The Islamic State’s leader, the self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, spent time in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq. Cells organized within them, ...

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, ...

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.