Israel Compares Hamas to the Islamic State Group. But the Comparison Misses the Mark in Key Ways It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS.
Groups Linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State Take Root on the Coast of West Africa Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State have been spreading from the vast, arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert...
Captured ISIS Insurgents (and Their Wives) Say Why They Fought for the Caliphate in 'Rojek' For four months, filmmaker Zaynê Akyol traveled Syrian Kurdistan visiting prisons and interviewing 30 jihadist fighters and...
Court Sentences Main Suspects in Belgium's Deadliest Peacetime Attack to 20-Year to Life Terms A chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam was the only survivor among the Islamic State extremists who struck Paris in November 2015.
Iraq Steps Up Repatriations from Islamic State Camp in Syria, Hoping to Reduce Militant Threats It’s a move that Baghdad hopes will reduce cross-border militant threats and eventually lead to shutting down the facility.
Fighting Between Rival US-Backed Groups in Syria Could Undermine War Against the Islamic State Group The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has...
Judge Rejects Military Contractor's Effort to Toss Out Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit Virginia-based CACI, which supplied interrogators at the prison, has long denied that it engaged in torture, and has tried...
IS Claims Responsibility for the Bombing that Killed 54 at a Pro-Taliban Election Rally in Pakistan An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54...
How the Coup in Niger Could Expand the Reach of Islamic Extremism, and Wagner, in West Africa More than 1,000 U.S. service personnel are in Niger to combat the growing threat from various groups of Islamic extremists.
Pakistani Security Forces Say They Killed an Islamic State Commander in a Raid on a Militant Hideout Pakistani security forces say they have killed an Islamic State group commander and two other militants during a raid on a...
Biggest Military Pay Raise in 2 Decades Finalized in Newly Released Defense Bill Service members will get a 5.2% pay raise come January under the compromise annual defense bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Army Veteran Battling Terminal Cancer Gets His Wish to Shoot a Tank One Last Time In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of...
Congress Tells Army to Set Higher Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Soldiers Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy...
American Forces Must Strike Iran to Protect US Troops "The disproportionate scale of Iranian attacks to American responses lays bare that Iran, not the U.S., holds deterrence in...
US Military Grounds Entire Fleet of Osprey Aircraft Following a Deadly Crash off the Coast of Japan The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps took the extraordinary step of grounding hundreds of aircraft after a preliminary...
