Iraq’s air force claims it has struck a convoy carrying Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS).

Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an Islamic State (IS) training camp in eastern Syria, president Francois Hollande said yesterday, making good on a promise to go after the group he said is planning attacks against several countries, including France.

Prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected accusations that Turkey previously tacitly supported Islamic State (IS) militants operating from Syria and unwittingly opened the door to a suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people.

Hundreds queued yesterday to pay their respects to the Athlone couple who were murdered at a beach-side resort in Tunisia a week ago.

The British graduate unmasked in reports as the Islamic State (IS) executioner known as Jihadi John was a model employee, “calm and decent” and “very good with people”, his former boss has said.

A British man identified in reports as the Islamic State (IS) executioner known as ‘Jihadi John’ feared he was a “dead man walking” after run-ins with security services before fleeing to Syria to begin his reign of terror, email exchanges with a journalist have claimed.

Egypt has launched air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing a mass beheading of Coptic Christians held hostage for weeks.

Jordan has launched 56 air strikes against Islamic State (IS) group weapons depots, training centres and military barracks since militants released a video of them burning a Jordanian pilot to death, Jordan’s air force chief said.

Jordanian fighter jets have carried out new air strikes, the military said, a day after the country’s king vowed to wage a “harsh” war against Islamic State (IS) militants who control parts of neighbouring Syria and Iraq.

An Islamic State (IS) militant who specialised in chemical weapons has been killed in a US air strike in Iraq, the military says.

Boris Johnson has labelled religious extremists lured by organisations such as Islamic State (IS) obsessed with pornography.

Militant leaders from Islamic State (IS) and al Qaida have agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander have said.

Islamic State (IS) group extremists have lined up and shot dead at least 50 tribesmen, women and children in Iraq’s Anbar province, officials said, in the latest mass killing committed by the group.

A man sacked from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot by one of the bosses.

With visor strategically placed and a determined thumbs-up from the cockpit, the pilot leading the UAE’s airstrikes on Syrian jihadists pulls off the Top Gun look with aplomb.

The wife of British hostage Alan Henning has called on “the people of the Islamic State to see it in their hearts to release my husband”, describing him as a “peaceful, selfless man”.

British Prime Minister David Cameron gathered senior representatives of the military and security services at Downing Street after a third man was beheaded by Islamic State (IS).

US president Barack Obama has told congressional leaders that he has the authority he needs to carry out a broader campaign to root out the violent extremists in Iraq and Syria.

Militants from the Islamic State (IS) group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog has said.

Amnesty International says it has uncovered "gruesome" evidence of ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants.

Defence Minister Simon Coveney has said that Irish troops deployed as part of the UN mission in the disputed Golan Heights will not be replaced unless the mission is reviewed.

The beheading of an American reporter by Islamic fanatics is a chilling reminder of the danger experienced by journalists in the world’s war zones.