In a huge security operation, Jordanian forces laid siege to a building in a residential part of the city of Salt in search of those responsible for an earlier bomb attack on a police van.
In a huge security operation, Jordanian forces laid siege to a building in a residential part of the city of Salt in search of those responsible for an earlier bomb attack on a police van.
The story of the mole who posed as a jihadist in the Islamic State, and the most important antiterrorism agency that most people have never heard of.
Two American cyclists had a vision of the world, or, at least, what it could be. The men who mowed them down in Tajikistan had a starkly different one.
Targeted by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, the Islamic State militants turned themselves into the government, but many civilians are furious at what they see as lenient treatment.
A trip along the Euphrates reveals damaged and depopulated towns, and an uneasy front held by a tenuous American presence.
Two bombers, wearing women’s clothes to hide explosive vests and automatic weapons, killed at least 29 worshipers during Friday Prayer.
More than 200 Islamic State militants and two top commanders surrendered to the Afghan government, after a decisive loss in a two-day battle with rival insurgents.
The video released by the Islamic State suggests a connection between the group and the men who attacked several cyclists in Tajikistan over the weekend.
Islamic State extremists have struck civilians in Jalalabad at least 10 times this year, in a series of suicide attacks against lightly defended places.
Officials say the blast was carried out by Abu Sayyaf, a militant group that besieged the southern city of Marawi for five months.
Officials initially described a hit-and-run in Tajikistan as an “attack,” and hours later, the Islamic State claimed responsibility, saying the assailants were inspired by the group.
Our national security law expert in Washington made his first of many reporting trips to Guantánamo Bay in 2003. Earlier this month, he toured ISIS fighter prisons in Syria.
The family of the gunman who shot 15 people says he had serious psychiatric problems. The Islamic State claimed him as one of its own.
In a series of attacks in Sweida Province, jihadists from the Islamic State proved that they could still inflict damage, despite having lost territory.
Ibraheem Musaibli, who is from Michigan, is being held in Syria. So is an Indiana woman whose husband died fighting for ISIS. The U.S. is bringing them home.
Increasing attacks by the Islamic State in Balochistan are connected to Pakistan’s failed strategy of encouraging and using Islamist militants to crush Baloch rebels and separatists.
On a rare tour of prisons for Islamic State suspects from nearly 50 countries, a Times reporter watched their jailers try to secure them humanely — but for how long?
Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was found guilty of planning to kill the prime minister of Britain at her official residence.
The insurgent group said that it would continue fighting but would avoid actions, like suicide attacks, that kill civilians. ISIS made no such offer.