JEFF AMY, Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A young Mississippi couple who are charged with attempting to join the Islamic State were ordered held without...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. panel is calling for Internet and social media companies to respond to the exploitation of...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is blaming his own party for the rise of the Islamic State group. The...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Of all the leaders in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press KEN DILANIAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Once hailed by President Barack Obama as a model for fighting extremism, the U.S. counterterrorism...
(Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday Islamic State forces may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq as well as war crimes...
JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people...
ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a...
ESAM MOHAMED, Associated Press MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Islamic State militants unleashed suicide bombings Friday in eastern Libya, killing at least 40...
PARIS (The News) – Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko...
CHIKA ODUAH, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House was ready to share with lawmakers Tuesday its plan to seek authority...
(CNN) – ISIS has stepped up the use of children in its bloody campaign of terror, the United Nations says — subjecting them horrors that include...
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress will face some resistance to a vote to authorize...
London (CNN) – A French journalist’s ISIS captors cared little about religion, Didier Francois — who spent over 10 months as the group’s prisoner in...
(USA Today) – Algerian soldiers killed the leader of an Islamic State splinter group blamed for the beheading of a French hiker, Algeria’s Ministry of...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As it looks to expand its territorial base across broad swaths of Iraq and Syria,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is authorizing the U.S. military to deploy up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq as part of the mission...
(Reuters) – When lawmakers return to Washington after Tuesday’s congressional elections they will resume a debate they began with some reluctance last month on the...
ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The family of an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post who has been jailed in Iran...
ANKARA, Turkey (The Washington Post) — The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is using U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches...
(The Washington Post) – In a remarkable new video released by the Islamic State militants, British hostage John Cantlie gives a tour of the Syrian...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The recurring image in the latest Republican campaign ads is a lone militant walking across a barren land with...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent NEW YORK (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes in Syria has...
