Mistakenly believing that a 16-year-old had fired on them, a mob of antigovernment protesters stabbed him to death.
Prosecutors said Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim used a social media app called Zello to recruit fighters and encourage others to kill enemies of the Islamic State.
American commanders have requested guidance on dealing with an attack from those armed groups and others from Iran and the Syrian government, but officials say they have received muddled direction.
The world is failing innocent victims of the war on terrorism.
The new penalties will likely have little direct impact on the militiamen, but could pose a thorny dilemma for Baghdad’s next leaders.
The alliance’s 70th-anniversary gathering was punctuated by testy exchanges with President Trump and a video of world leaders appearing to criticize him.
Offensives against the Islamic State’s Afghan branch have brought it down to several hundred fighters, officials say. But they warn that the group’s cruelty is still a threat.
The country was once a pocket of calm in West Africa, but the past year’s violence has killed hundreds and forced nearly a million people from their homes.
Lisa Smith, 38, and her 2-year-old daughter were deported by Turkey from a Syrian displacement camp and landed in Dublin on Sunday.
Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher’s case pits a Pentagon hierarchy committed to enforcing longstanding rules of combat against a commander in chief with no military experience but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.
The deadly attack near London Bridge has put the efficacy of Britain’s prison rehabilitation system under scrutiny.
The militants were found guilty in violence that killed two dozen people at an upscale bakery, one of the worst such attacks in the country.
The president presented the dog that took part in a raid that killed the Islamic State’s leader even as he is embroiled in a dispute over a war crimes case.
After a lull of several weeks, American troops and Syrian Kurdish fighters are once again conducting large-scale counterterrorism missions.
The husband and wife were rescued by soldiers after insurgents came under attack and abandoned the couple.
On a rare visit to U.S. bases in eastern Syria, we saw how President Trump’s message is being reinterpreted on the ground.
The Kurdish authorities said three children in Syria had been handed over to British officials.
Several recent military airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in southern Libya have seriously disrupted the terrorist group’s efforts to reorganize and carry out strikes there.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to send back foreign citizens who supported the Islamic State is handing Western Europe a problem it had hoped to avoid.
A surprise ruling from the bench is a blow to a bid to bring Hoda Muthana and her 2-year-old son, the child of a slain ISIS fighter, back from a refugee camp in Syria.
A Times article based on documents recovered by a researcher reported that ISIS made payments to members of a rival group.
Turkey said it had received assurances from Washington that the American would not be refused entry.