Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the United States Colored Troops, which led her to a distant relative, a ...

A roadside bomb in northern Iraq killed three soldiers and wounded two others near Tuz Khurmatu. The Islamic State claimed ...

Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience influenced ...

Iraqi authorities reported Saturday the dismantling of an Islamic State (IS) cell in Kirkuk province, resulting in the arrest ...

In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, bars were shuttered during the years when it was controlled by the Islamic State ...

Nearly 2,600 Yazidis remain missing a decade after IS rampaged through their Iraqi heartland. Most are feared dead, but ...

The Islamic State group, often called ISIS, is not just based in Iraq and Syria. A scholar tracks where the group and its affiliates have spread around the globe. There is a common misconception ...

IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was last seen at Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri in 2014 In 2013, ISI began seizing territory in Syria and changed its name to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ...

and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Following the attack on Sinjar, ISIS forcibly transferred thousands of ...

Iraqi troops reportedly retook two towns over the weekend that had been seized by the insurgent Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) group. The action may mark a recovery in Baghdad from Isis’s ...

US soldiers in Syria are struggling to contain an Islamic State (ISIS) resurgence in areas of the country previously cleared ...

In June, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militia swarmed across Iraq, conquering huge swaths of territory and even threatening to topple the government in Baghdad. ISIS is now in charge of a ...