Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his decision to label US president Barack Obama the “founder” of Islamic State (IS).

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A man allegedly involved with Islamic terrorists has lost his High Court action aimed at preventing his deportation to Jordan.

The Pentagon is moving to increase the number of American troops in Iraq in the wake of new strikes that killed the Islamic State's finance minister and other top leaders of the terror group.

Iraqi forces claim that they are in full control of the city of Ramadi, recapturing it from Islamic State fighters.

US President Barack Obama has urged Turkey to reduce tensions with Russia, which are hampering efforts to fight Islamic State militants in Syria.

Turkey’s prime minister dismissed any suggestion Ankara should apologise for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself.

David Cameron has promised to set out a “comprehensive” strategy for tackling Islamic State (IS) on Thursday that will include British air strikes on the terrorists’ bases in Syria.

In a striking shift, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are embarking on a tentative path toward closer ties and possible military cooperation, as the bitter rift over Ukraine gives way to common cause against the Islamic State group.

The costs of failing to defeat Islamic State are rising to intolerable levels, both in lives tragically lost and dollars destroyed. A look at the numbers available suggests that the consequences of not acting outweigh the risks of a full-blown military boots-on-the-ground conflict.

David Cameron has hailed the apparent death of ‘Jihadi John’ as a “strike at the heart” of Islamic State (IS).

Kurdish peshmerga fighters say they have liberated much of the Iraqi town of Sinjar from the group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL).

Islamic State’s crude interpretation of the Quran has seen it try to justify the actions of followers who have raped young girls and sold them into sex. Ken Phelan looks at the mindset that allows it

Airport security around the world will have to be overhauled if it is confirmed the Russian airliner crash in the Sinai was caused by an Islamic State bomb, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond has warned.

Russia continued to bomb Syria for a third day yesterday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than Islamic State (IS) fighters it said it was targeting.

Russian military jets have carried out air strikes in Syria for the first time, targeting what Moscow said were IS positions.

British prime minister dismisses efforts to back Bashar al-Assad

Something must be done about the blood-thirsty evil of ISIS and these religious wars between Muslims and Christians.

Two British citizens who were fighting for so-called Islamic State (IS) were killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria which was carried out without parliamentary approval, prime minister David Cameron has said.

A car bomb in a Cairo suburb has wounded at least six police officers and badly damaged a state security building.

Turkish officials say Kurdish militants attacked five military outposts in eastern Turkey in the past 24 hours.

New evidence has emerged which shows Kurdish forces fighting in northern Iraq were allegedly attacked a few days ago with chemical weapons.

David Cameron has warned that IS must be destroyed in its Syrian heartland as Labour signalled that it was ready to back further military action in the wake of Tunisia beach attack.

Eyewitnesses have claimed the Tunisian beach massacre may have been carried out by more than one attacker as authorities continue to quiz seven suspected associates of the gunman.

IS fighters have frightened parents and pundits around the world with their highly effective use of social media to spread propaganda.

A military operation has been launched to drive Islamic State out of the western Anbar province of Iraq, where the extremists captured the provincial capital Ramadi earlier this month.

Defence secretary critical of US bid to help Iraq fight Islamic State

US commandos have mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing a senior Islamic State commander in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, the Pentagon said.

At Iraq’s request, the US began airstrikes in Tikrit in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic State fighters.

I was wryly amused by Daniel Teegan’s vision of a de-Zionised Israel, reintegrated into its neighbouring Arab world. 

Iraq has urged the United Nations to look at allegations that Islamic State (IS) extremists are using organ harvesting as a way to finance its activities.

President Barack Obama declared that the US-led military coalition will succeed in destroying the Islamic State group, as he asked Congress for fresh war powers.

US President Barack Obama confirmed the death of Kayla Mueller, a US aid worker who had been held hostage by Islamic State militants, saying the United States would “find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible”.

Islamic State said yesterday that an American woman hostage it was holding in Syria was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she was being held, but Jordan expressed doubt about the Islamist militant group’s account of her death.

President Barack Obama is poised in the next few days to ask Congress for new authority to use US military force against Islamic State (IS) militants.