QAYARFARY, Iraq — Denied entry into neighboring Iran, scores of Islamic militants who had retreated into the mountains during recent attacks by U.S. forces are trudging through snow and across fields ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Taha Mahmud remembers thinking he was going to die. He was thrashing through knee-deep mountain snow toward his last hope ...

The irony of the Iranian system of government is that while the Supreme Leader may, as the “deputy of the Messiah on Earth,” theoretically hold absolute power, the Iranian government is nonetheless ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A source within Ansar Allah, widely known as the Houthi movement, has told Newsweek that the Iran-aligned Yemeni rebel ...

When U.S. special forces led an assault in March on a compound in northern Iraq belonging to the militant group Ansar al-Islam, U.S. officials said they had taken out a significant terrorist threat.

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Ansar al Islam’s new flag. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam released a statement announcing the name of its new leader ...

Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party, Maj Gen Abdul Motaleb Sajjad Mahmud, said that 650,000 Ansar members will be deployed at polling centres across the country to address ...

A banned Pakistani militia whose formation can be traced to its loyalties to a Sufi cleric is now positioning itself as the last bastion of hope against extremists intent on controlling regions ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The grainy photographs depict a tall, expressionless man in his 20s, standing head and shoulders above the other well-wishers in a reception line at a Kurdistan Democratic Party office.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus is expected to tell House and Senate committees Friday that soon after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it suspected Ansar al Sharia was ...