ISIS ENSHRINES A THEOLOGY OF RAPE

Continue reading the main story Calculated Conquest The Islamic State's formal introduction of systematic sexual slavery dates to Aug... READ MORE›

TONY BLAIR: WORLD MUST ACT ON ISLAMIST EXTREMISM

Seventy-three per cent of people, including those in the Muslim world, think that violent extremism is a solvable problem... READ MORE›

SYRIA WAR: TURKISH-BACKED REBELS SEIZE DABIQ FROM ISIL

Before Saturday's talks were set to begin, dozens of overnight air strikes struck east Aleppo, Britain-based Syrian Organisation for Human Rights SOHR said on Friday... READ MORE›

ISIS CALLS FOR HOLY WAR FIND AN ECHO IN PRO-TRUMP SOCIAL MEDIA

And, for a time, it seemed that the Islamic State was even trying to goad the West into a confrontation near Dabiq... READ MORE›

REBELS 'CAPTURE' IS STRONGHOLD OF DABIQ

Turkish-backed rebels have captured the symbolically important Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group, rebel commanders and monitors say... READ MORE›

SYRIAN REBELS SEIZE VILLAGE WHERE ISLAMIC STATE PROMISED FINAL BATTLE

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, had said Islamic State brought 1,200 fighters to defend Dabiq... READ MORE›

SYRIA: TURKISH-BACKED REBELS ADVANCE ON ISIL-HELD DABIQ

It also said that ISIL fighters had been planting mines and explosives... READ MORE›

Fighters under the banner of the Tripolitania Province of the Islamic State announced last month that they were holding about 20 Egyptian Christians, or Copts... READ MORE›

DHAKA CAFE SIEGE: ALL 20 HOSTAGES KILLED ARE FOREIGNERS

Gunmen seized a bakery in Dhaka overnight, killing 20 hostages and two officers in a siege that ended Saturday morning, the Bangladeshi military said... READ MORE›

ISIS FLEES VILLAGE WHERE IT PROPHESIED DOOMSDAY BATTLE

It also offered further evidence of the Islamic State's rapidly diminishing capabilities ahead of the imminent offensive targeting the city of Mosul in neighboring Iraq... READ MORE›

SECOND FRENCH JIHADIST SEEN IN VIDEO

'Vigilance' call On a visit to Australia, French President Francois Hollande told reporters in Canberra that there were two French people in the video... READ MORE›

ISIS MAY BE ON ITS KNEES BUT IT WILL RISE AGAIN IF WE DON'T BREAK THE CYCLE

The group is also projected to lose its second pillar, Raqqa in Syria, by the end of this year... READ MORE›

ISIS PROMISE OF STATEHOOD FALLING FAR SHORT EX-RESIDENTS SAY

Ground forces ready to fight the Islamic State -- also known as ISIS or ISIL -- in its strongholds in Syria and Iraq are still lacking... READ MORE›

TURKISH-BACKED SYRIAN REBELS RECAPTURE TOWN OF DABIQ FROM ISIS

Syrian rebel fighters backed by Turkey have seized the town of Dabiq from Islamic State, a symbolically crucial victory in the fight against the terror group... READ MORE›

28/74 ISIS FIGHTERS IN SYRIA

Isis has lost control of the symbolically important town of Dabiq to a group of Syrian rebels following a short battle... READ MORE›

KERRY TO MEET EUROPEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS

Before Saturday's talks were set to begin, dozens of overnight air strikes struck east Aleppo, Britain-based Syrian Organisation for Human Rights SOHR said on Friday... READ MORE›

AFTER LOSSES IN SYRIA AND IRAQ, ISIS MOVES THE GOAL POSTS

To soften the symbolic blow, the Islamic State switched rhetorical gears, declaring that the real Dabiq battle would come some other time... READ MORE›

FRANCE MAKES NEW PUSH FOR ALEPPO CEASEFIRE

And Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy at Urem Al-Kubra near Aleppo... READ MORE›

SYRIAN GOVERNMENT, ALLIES ADVANCE AS RUSSIA VETOES U.N. DEMAND

Syrian government forces and their allies, backed by air raids, took over an area on Aleppo's northern outskirts on Saturday, state media and the Observatory said... READ MORE›

WITH SYRIA 'SAFE ZONE' PLAN, TURKEY FACES DIPLOMATIC BALANCING ACT

Erdogan's spokesman said on Tuesday that Russia had voiced full support for Turkey's operation to clear the border of Islamic State... READ MORE›

REBELS ADVANCE ON IS STRONGHOLD OF DABIQ

Since a brief truce collapsed last month, Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes have intensified their bombardment of rebel-held areas in Aleppo... READ MORE›

PROFILE: SUSPECTED PARIS ATTACK MASTERMIND ABDELHAMID ABAAOUD

Reuters also reported that Abaaoud could be the brains behind the Paris attacks, citing a source close to the French investigation... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS TO KILL 2 HOSTAGES; REVEALS PHOTO OF RUSSIAN BOMB

Islamic State claims to kill 2 hostages reveals photo of Russian bomb... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE USES IMAGE OF ALAN KURDI TO THREATEN SYRIAN REFUGEES FOR FLEEING

In the magazine, Isis's al-Qaida rivals in Syria, the Nusra Front, are portrayed as tools of Nato ally Turkey and the UK prime minister, David Cameron... READ MORE›

WERE NEW YORK, MINNESOTA ATTACKS OPEN-SOURCE JIHAD?

Before that, Hezbollah -- long considered the A-team of terrorism by security officials -- had its own bricks and mortar terror factories in Lebanon... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP HAS NO INTEREST IN WALL BETWEEN CANADA, U.S.

The U.S.-Mexico border is over 3,100 kilometres long... READ MORE›

SYRIAN REBELS APPROACH SYMBOLIC ISLAMIC STATE VILLAGE

Islamic State has exploited the five-year-old Syrian civil war to seize swathes of territory... READ MORE›

ISIS VIDEO APPEARS TO SHOW PARIS ASSAILANTS EARLIER IN SYRIA AND IRAQ

The Islamic State began teasing the release of the video last week in Dabiq, its monthly magazine, where a still image of the video appeared... READ MORE›

OBAMA CONFIRMS DEATH OF US HOSTAGE PETER KASSIG AFTER ISIS RELEASES VIDEO

After being deployed in Iraq as a US army ranger, Kassig set up a medical charity to run aid to Syrian refugees in 2007... READ MORE›

SYRIAN REBELS SEIZE SYMBOLIC TOWN OF DABIQ FROM ISIL

Free Syrian Army rebels backed by Turkish airstrikes have captured the Syrian town of Dabiq from Islamic State militants, averting, for now, the terror group rsquo... READ MORE›