US military says the strikes are in response to an ISIL ambush that killed three American personnel in Palmyra.

Whatever happened to al-Qaeda? A decade-and-a-half ago, it perpetrated the single largest act of international terrorism to ever take place on American soil. Yet ...

WASHINGTON — The mastery of social media by the Syria-based Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terror organization to recruit members, supporters and lone ...

The US president says air strikes are against ISIL, claiming the group targets Christians. Trump says strikes are related to ‘Christian genocide’ but attacks on Christian farmers happened in different area. Syria’s foreign ministry condemns the attack as a ‘desperate attempt to undermine security and sow chaos’.

North and West Africa are breeding grounds for radical Islamic terrorism. The Obama administration has allowed this situation to fester too long by failing to produce a coherent strategy to stop Islamic State’s advances in the Maghreb in general and in ...

If there were a contest today for breaking the record of human rights violations, the gold medal for “most significant abuses in the name of religion” would surely go to ISIL. Over the last two years, this brutal terrorist group has systematically ...

The UK’s Ministry of Defence says an underground facility likely storing ISIL weapons was the target of the attack.

WASHINGTON -- Army Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commanding general of XVIII Airborne Corps based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, assumed command of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve during a transfer of authority ceremony on Monday ...