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Islamic State training pilots to fly in three jets: Syria monitor

Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in thre...

Oct 17, 2014 07:47 AM EDT

U.S., Russia agree to share intelligence on common enemy: Islamic State militants

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Tuesday to i...

Oct 15, 2014 12:35 AM EDT

Khamenei blames United States, 'wicked' Britain, for creating Islamic State

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday blamed the United States and the "wicked" B...

Oct 14, 2014 05:10 AM EDT

Obama, foreign military chiefs, to thrash out Islamic State plans

President Barack Obama will hash out a strategy to counter Islamic State on Tuesday with military le...

Oct 14, 2014 04:27 AM EDT

Kobani's fall would be symbolic setback for Obama Syria strategy

It's not a particularly strategic location, the United States and its allies never pledged to defend...

Oct 10, 2014 11:09 PM EDT

Japan student suspected of trying to join Islamic State

Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to j...

Oct 07, 2014 04:53 AM EDT

Crime and gangs: the path to battle for Australia's Islamist radicals

The children of refugees who fled Lebanon's civil war for peaceful Australia in the 1970s form a maj...

Oct 07, 2014 03:46 AM EDT

Who runs the militant group Islamic State?

Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq an...

Oct 04, 2014 08:32 AM EDT

Australia authorizes special forces troops to go to Iraq

Australian special forces troops will be deployed in Iraq to assist in the fight against Islamic Sta...

Oct 03, 2014 01:32 AM EDT

U.S. lawmakers urge congressional action to back Obama's Syria war

U.S. lawmakers on Sunday stepped up calls for congressional authorization of President Barack Obama'...

Sep 29, 2014 02:03 AM EDT

Obama: U.S. intelligence underestimated militants in Syria - CBS

U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become "gro...

Sep 28, 2014 11:06 PM EDT

French Muslims denounce “cowardly murder” of tour guide in Algeria

Thousands of Muslims gathered across France on Friday to denounce the beheading of tourist Herve Gou...

Sep 28, 2014 01:34 AM EDT

New York officials scramble to reassure city after security threat

A warning by Iraq's prime minister that Islamist militants planned to attack New York City sent poli...

Sep 26, 2014 04:17 AM EDT

Islamic State drags Obama back into Mideast quagmire

American-led and Arab-backed air strikes carrying the fight against Islamic State from Iraq into Syr...

Sep 25, 2014 10:13 PM EDT

Iraqi PM says Islamic State plans subway attacks in U.S. and Paris

Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris...

Sep 25, 2014 07:09 PM EDT

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