"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told Newsweek.

It took less than two years to reconquer ISIS-held territory; in the process ... No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of ...

The group's ideas, meanwhile, continue to inspire a small number of disaffected or disturbed individuals in the West. There was reportedly a significant rise in thwarted Isis-inspired attacks in ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” ...

At the beginning of 2014, with ISIS quickly taking control ... and Iraq and annex them to Turkish territory, according to what is known as the "Misak-ı Millî", which is the constitution in which the ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

IS’s African affiliates accounted for nearly 70% of all IS-claimed attacks in 2024 and 64% of all IS-claimed casualties, according to the Islamic State Worldwide Activity Map by Washington ...

Behind every man lies a recurrent story, a personal myth that guides his actions and shapes his destiny. In " Personal Myths" ( Assateer Shakhseya), Mohsen Abdel-Aziz, novelist, writer, and journalist ...

The Sahel is grappling with unprecedented violence, as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked jihadist groups intensify their attacks on civilians and m ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...