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

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and ...

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 ...

MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

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, ...

Prominent Islamic and Christian clerics, alongside top government officials, gathered in Daura, Katsina State, on Thursday ...

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.

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 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, ...