A small but violent off-shoot of the Islamic State has taken root just north of the Israeli-Syrian border and may be planning to carry out large-scale terror attacks ...

New US-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters failed to stop them from pressing their assault on a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border, hitting it with shell fire for the first time.

Recent changes in global migration patterns and smuggling routes have created an opening for terror groups like the Islamic State to set their sights on the U.S ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families left the Lebanon-Syria border region on Monday under Syrian military escort, surrendering their enclave and traveling to ...

Reporting from Akcakale, Turkey — Kurdish fighters and allied Syrian rebels consolidated their control Tuesday of a strategic Syrian border town whose capture dealt the militants of the Islamic State ...

Akçakale, TURKEY - On the surface, the town of Akçakale appears like any other small Turkish border town, but over the past three years residents will tell you it has been transformed into a seedy ...

Reporting from Cairo — Kurdish fighters in the Syrian border city of Kobani, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, said Saturday they had expelled Islamic State militants who went on a killing spree months ...

AKCAKALE, Turkey >> Syrian Kurdish fighters closed in on the outskirts of a strategic Islamic State-held town on the Turkish border Sunday, Kurdish officials and an activist group said, potentially ...