Islamic State

7 U.S. troops hurt in Iraq raid targeting Islamic State group militants that killed 15

8:45am August 31, 2024

The U.S. military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants that killed at least 15 people and saw seven U.S. troops hurt, officials said.

The Pentagon is reinvestigating if troops killed civilians in its 2019 Baghdadi raid

5:00am August 07, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

A prior investigation rejected claims that civilians were killed and wounded in the raid targeting ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon says it's reinvestigating after an NPR report.

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The criminal complaint against Alexander Scott Mercurio is photographed on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.

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Prosecutors say an Idaho man planned a church attack to support the Islamic State

1:25am April 10, 2024

by The Associated Press

Authorities said Alexander Scott Mercurio adopted the Muslim faith against his Christian parents' wishes and was in contact with FBI informants posing as Islamic State group supporters.

A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall on Saturday, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, killed at least 133 people.

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Death toll from Moscow concert hall attack rises to 133 as Putin addresses the nation

9:27pm March 23, 2024

by Rebecca Rosman

The Russian president described the violent shooting as "a bloody, barbaric terrorist act" after a group linked to the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the event.

People gather at the site of an explosion in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday. Two bombs exploded at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said.

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Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide bombings that killed dozens in Iran

12:55pm January 04, 2024

by The Associated Press

The bombings, which killed at least 84, targeted a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike. Wednesday's event was the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades.

Relatives and mourners gather around the caskets of victims who were killed in Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023.

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The death toll in the Pakistan suicide bombing rises as families hold funerals

5:29am July 31, 2023

by The Associated Press

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing, which killed dozens and wounded nearly 200 people.

U.S. Marine Maj. Bull Gurfein pulls down a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on March 21, 2003, a day after the start of the U.S. invasion, in Safwan, Iraq.

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq

5:00am March 19, 2023

Two decades ago, then-President George W. Bush announced the start of combat operations in Iraq. The bloody occupation that followed lasted longer and cost more in lives and money than anyone guessed.

Police keep watch as an ambulance is parked outside the PNP Custodial Compound in Camp Crame police headquarters, Metro Manila, Philippines on Sunday Oct. 9, 2022.

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Filipino police kill 3 inmates in jail rampage after ex-senator was held hostage

11:10am October 09, 2022

by The Associated Press

Philippine police killed three detained militants linked to Islamic State after they staged a Manila jail rampage that saw a police officer stabbed and a former opposition senator held hostage.

El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State.

An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages

4:20pm August 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a group known as the "ISIS Beatles," is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to be convicted in the U.S,, prosecutors said.

A U.S.-led military raid in Syria captures a senior IS leader

5:39am June 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

The coalition did not name the person but identified him as one of the top leaders of the extremist group's Syria branch.