The United States envoy negotiating with the Taliban for an end to America’s longest war departed Tuesday for Qatar to resume talks, the State Department said, amid concerns about a growing threat by an Islamic State affiliate.
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Afghanistan’s president on Monday vowed to “eliminate” all safe havens of the Islamic State group as the country observed a subdued 100th Independence Day after a horrific wedding attack claimed by the local IS affiliate killed 63 people and wounded nearly 200.
Read moreThe suicide bomber stood in the middle of the dancing, clapping crowd as hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrated a wedding in a joyous release from Kabul’s strain of war. Then, in a flash, he detonated his explosives-filled vest, killing dozens — and Afghanistan grieved again.
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Mother of five Zalina Gabibulayeva says she was “tricked” into joining jihadists in Syria five years ago. Now, repentant and repatriated to Russia’s Chechnya, she goes into schools to teach others of the dangers of extremism.
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Americans are far less concerned about two potential global threats that a majority of the country viewed as prominent existential risks just two years ago – North Korea and the Islamic State Group – but they are afraid of one thing: cyberattacks.
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The Trump administration said Thursday that it has brought home for prosecution a U.S. national suspected of fighting alongside the Islamic State group in Syria.
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A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict.
Read moreJurors exonerated Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher of premeditated murder charges Tuesday, after a day of deliberations in the nationally watched court-martial of war crimes accusations in the 2017 stabbing of an Islamic State fighter in Mosul, Iraq.
Read moreProsecutors and attorneys for Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher presented their closing arguments in a nationally watched court-martial Monday, with both sides zeroing in on conflicting text messages exchanged by teammates of the SEAL Team 7 Alpha Platoon.
Read moreIt was called the “The Sewing Circle,” an unlikely name for a secret subsect of Navy SEALs. Its purpose was even more improbable: A chat forum to discuss alleged war crimes they said their chief, a decorated sniper and medic, committed on a recent tour of duty in Iraq.
Read moreThe video deposition of a general with the Iraqi Emergency Response Division was shown in the court-martial of Edward Gallagher Thursday, complicating the convoluted testimony in the case when he said he never saw Gallagher kill an adolescent Islamic State solider he’s accused of stabbing.
Read moreShowing leniency to a New Jersey-born recruiter for the Islamic State group, a federal judge handed down a two-year sentence Wednesday in place of the 30-year term pushed by prosecutors.
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Thousands of relatives of former foreign fighters in the Islamic State group should be repatriated, the U.N. human rights chief said Monday, insisting children in particular have suffered “grievous violations” of their rights — a challenge to European and other countries that have been reticent about taking back jihadis and their kin.
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Expletive-filled group text messages between teammates of Chief Special Warfare Officer Edward R. Gallagher were revealed in court Friday, including one in which a SEAL unhappy with the war crimes court martial proceedings threatened to burn the courthouse to the ground.
Read moreNavy SEAL colleagues of Chief Special Warfare Officer Edward R. Gallagher testified against him Wednesday, claiming they witnessed their deployment leader shoot an elderly Iraqi civilian and stab an adolescent Islamic State group fighter in the neck, killing him.
Read moreThe trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care begins Monday after months of turmoil in one of the Navy’s most prominent war crimes cases.
Read moreAfter three women dressed in burqas attacked a police station in Mombasa, Kenya, in September 2016, the Islamic State praised the assailants as “supporters” of their terrorist organization.
Read moreA military judge took the rare step Monday to remove a prosecutor accused of misconduct from the war crimes case of a decorated Navy SEAL.
Read moreOfficials from 11 European countries met in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday to discuss creating a tribunal to prosecute Islamic State fighters.
Read moreAttorneys for a decorated Navy SEAL facing a murder trial in the death of an Islamic State prisoner will try again Friday to have the case dismissed after their client was unexpectedly freed from custody.
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