The Latest Breaking News from Islamic State

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The Kansas native moved to Egypt in 2008 before settling in Syria with her husband who was in a leadership position in the Islamic State

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire

The prominent influencer couple, from New Zealand, travels the world to promote environmental issues and were last heard from in July as they entered Iran from Turkey

“Keep your eye on Africa," journalist warns

Family members of a Kansas native convicted of leading an all-female Islamic State group battalion say they suffered years of horrific abuse at her hands well before she ever became a terrorist

Taliban security forces killed six Islamic State members in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a spokesman for the ruling group's administration said on Saturday.

France has repatriated 55 people from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists. It is the largest such repatriation in three months and comes a week after a European rights court condemned France for its refusal to return two women detained in Syria.

A 15-year-old will confess to coaching others online about how to build explosives, an Adelaide court hears, as prosecutors ask for the boy to be sentenced as an adult.

Afghanistan's Hazara community, a Shiite minority, is regularly targeted by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, which considers Hazaras as heretics. Dozens of people, mostly girls, were killed in an attack on an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on September 30. Although the attack…

French cement maker Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a US charge that it made payments to groups designated as terrorists by the United States, including the Islamic State (IS) group, agreeing to pay almost $780 million in fines and forfeitures.