Latest Islamic State group News

UN-backed commission says 30,000 children are suffering rights abuses in northeastern Syria

Mar. 11, 2024 09:38 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — Five years after the Islamic State group lost the last sliver of land it controlled in Syria, nearly 30,000 children of militants and their supporters of various nationalities are suffering abuse in camps, prisons and rehabilitation centers in the war-torn country’s northwest, a...

Turkish police detain 33 people accused of plotting attacks ahead of local elections, official says

Mar. 10, 2024 03:44 AM EDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police detained 33 people suspected of ties to the Islamic State group who were allegedly preparing attacks ahead of the country’s local elections later this month, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Sunday. The suspects were “preparing and searching...

Violence in the Mideast, rising threats from Islamic State group in Afghanistan pressure US, allies

Mar. 07, 2024 14:59 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exploding violence in the Middle East, fueled by Iran, presents the most likely threat to the U.S. homeland, and the risk of an attack by violent extremists in Afghanistan on American and Western interests abroad is increasing, the top U.S. commander for the region told a Senate...

New attacks by IS-linked group in Mozambique leave over 70 children missing. Thousands have fled

Mar. 06, 2024 14:41 PM EST

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants as thousands of families fled, local authorities and...

IS militants kill at least 18 people in an attack on villagers collecting truffles in eastern Syria

Mar. 06, 2024 12:00 PM EST

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants attacked villagers collecting truffles in eastern Syria on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and leaving dozens injured and missing, opposition activists and pro-government media said. The attack against the truffle hunters was one...

Teen suspect in stabbing of Jewish man in Zurich expressed solidarity with Islamic State group

Mar. 04, 2024 14:07 PM EST

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say the 15-year-old suspect in the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend had appeared in a video expressing solidarity with the banned Islamic State group, and called himself a “soldier” in its self-described caliphate. Zurich...

Military court in Somalia sentences 6 Moroccan men to death for membership in Islamic State group

Mar. 01, 2024 13:31 PM EST

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A military court in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland sentenced to death six Moroccans believed to be foreign fighters for the Islamic State extremist group in Somalia. The individuals entered Somalia to cause harm to Muslims and...

Iraq has captured 2 wanted Islamic State group members from abroad and brought them home

Feb. 24, 2024 14:07 PM EST

ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's authorities have captured two members of the Islamic State group in an operation outside the country and brought them home, where they confessed to committing crimes during the rule of the extremist organization, the intelligence department said Saturday. ...

Two daughters ran away to join Islamic State. Years later, their family’s story is an Oscar nominee

Feb. 24, 2024 01:26 AM EST

Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child’s mother loves, or something else? The Tunisian grandmother doesn’t even let her mind go there. “I don’t want to know. What for but more heartache?” she...

Iraq announces reopening of a key oil refinery a decade after it was stormed by the Islamic State

Feb. 23, 2024 12:15 PM EST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister announced Friday the reopening of the Beiji refinery, the country’s largest, which had been shut down for a decade after being damaged in the battle against the Islamic State extremist group. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a...