A day after Defense Department officials told a House panel the United States’ primary goal in Syria is defeating Islamic State group, a second panel of experts testified on the precarious way forward.
Read moreThe leader of the Islamic State group apparently resurfaced Wednesday, urging his followers to “persevere” and continue fighting the group’s enemies everywhere in a purported audio recording, his first in almost a year.
Read moreThe Second Circuit backed the U.S. government on Tuesday for its refusal to share what could be hundreds of photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Read moreSaudi Arabia said early on Friday that it has contributed $100 million to northeast Syria for “stabilization projects” in areas once held by the Islamic State group and now controlled by U.S.-backed forces.
Read moreAn Iraqi man accused of killing for the Islamic State entered the U.S. as a refugee after claiming to be a victim of terrorism, in a case drawing attention amid the Trump administration’s criticism of the resettlement program’s vetting process.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility that Google’s sharing of YouTube ad revenue with terrorists could make it liable for the 2015 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.
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In an apparent about-face on Great Britain’s long-held opposition to the death penalty, the Tory government is planning to extradite two alleged Islamic State fighters to the United States, where they could face execution.
Read moreThe government says diplomatic issues with Iraq would prevent the military from releasing a dual American-Saudi Arabian citizen there who was captured on the Islamic State group battlefield in Syria back in September.
Read moreThe family of James Foley — a journalist who was tortured and beheaded by the Islamic State group in 2014 — brought a $200 million complaint Tuesday to hold the Syrian government liable.
Read moreA Los Angeles man who made a series of online threats against law enforcement and others at a courthouse, a school and a private business in the name of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty to a federal crime Monday and faces up to five years in prison.
Read moreThe accused terrorist behind a New York City truck attack that killed eight people last year disregarded warnings about his right against self-incrimination on Friday in a 10-minute speech extolling the Islamic State group.
Read moreU.K. prosecutors say an Islamic State adherent plotted a suicide bombing targeting British Prime Minister Theresa May at her Downing Street office in London.
Read moreForced to wait years for the visas they were promised in exchange for assisting U.S. war efforts, five Afghan and Iraqi nationals say in a federal class action that their lives and their families’ safety are at stake.
Read moreA California man who told undercover FBI agents he hoped to execute a Christmas Day bombing in San Francisco pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to provide support to ISIS.
Read moreThe family of an Arizona woman tortured and killed by the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015 sued the Syrian Arab Republic in federal court Friday, claiming the government of Bashar al-Assad harbored the terrorist organization that kidnapped Kayla Mueller.
Read moreExplaining why it refused to let an undisclosed country take custody of a man suspected of fighting for the Islamic State group, the D.C. Circuit noted that the U.S. government’s maneuver appears unprecedented.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit refused to let the Trump administration send to another country a U.S. citizen who is suspected of fighting with the Islamic State in Syria.
Read moreDefending its enemy-combatant designation of a U.S. citizen captured on the Islamic State battlefield, the government told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that courts cannot review its decision to transfer the man from Iraq.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday night blocked the government from transferring an American citizen accused of fighting with Islamic State militants to Saudi Arabia until he can fully challenge his detention in court.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday is weighing the fate of a U.S. citizen who has been accused of working with Islamic State militants in Syria, but never charged.
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