The United States has more than doubled the number of its forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group.

Political analyst Daniel Cronrath and News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton discuss the ripple effects expected in the Middle East after the historic ouster of Syria's Bashar Assad that brought an end to his family's 50 years of brutal rule.

The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country.

Massive U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State militants in Syria are meant partly as a message to the group and a move to ensure that the insurgents don’t try to take advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad’s government.

U.S. Central Command says the U.S. military has struck a number of Islamic State group camps in central Syria, killing as many as 35 militants.

Iraq's prime minister says the Islamic State militant group’s leader in Iraq was killed in a military operation along with eight of the group’s other senior leaders.

German authorities have arrested a Libyan national with suspected ties to the extremist Islamic State group who was allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.

The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S. That's according to a Justice Department announcement Tuesday.

The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan.

The United States military and Iraq have launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country’s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt.

A top U.N. counterterrorism official has told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist groups.

Austrian authorities say both suspects in a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows in Vienna appeared to be inspired by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group.

This week's attack on a Shiite mosque in the capital stunned Oman, a quiet nation long spared militant violence.

Authorities in the Gulf Arab state of Oman say several gunmen burst into a Shiite mosque and opened fire, killing six people and wounding nearly 30 more.

An Iraqi court has issued a death sentence against one of the wives of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against Yazidi women captured by the militant group.

The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Over the years, Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been beset by extremist violence.

Russia's state-funded news channel RT has reported that security forces have stormed a detention center in the southern part of the country and killed inmates who had taken two staff members hostage.

A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming radicalized expressed remorse and wept in court as he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days.

A Turkish court has sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots that broke out in 2014 after Islamic State group militants besieged the Syrian border town of Kobani.

The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants.

A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses remorse and has been cooperating with authorities will have to wait to learn how much prison time he faces.

Mali's army says a senior Islamic State group commander wanted in connection with one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. forces in Africa has been killed.

An opposition war monitor and a pro-government media outlet say an attack on pro-government fighters by suspected members of the Islamic State group in central Syria killed 22 pro-government fighters.

Amnesty International says it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria.

An 18-year-old man accused of planning to attack churches in a northern Idaho city in support of the Islamic State group has pleaded not guilty to a federal terrorism charge.

Authorities say an 18-year-old man planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and potentially his father’s guns.

This week’s Champions League soccer games are going ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat.

Russian authorities say that the death toll in last week’s Moscow concert hall attack has risen to 143.

The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the gunmen who raided a suburban Moscow concert hall and killed 139 people were “radical Islamists.”.

The attack on a Moscow-area concert hall that killed scores of people has dealt a major blow to President Vladimir Putin's image as a tough guy who is able to defend Russia from all threats.

An Islamic State group affiliate has claimed responsibility for an attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people.

The U.S.-backed force that defeated the Islamic State group in Syria five years ago is warning that the extremists still pose grave dangers throughout the world.

The suburban Moscow concert hall where gunmen opened fire on concertgoers was a blackened, smoldering ruin as the death toll in the attack surpassed 130 and Russian authorities arrested four suspects.

The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during Mass that killed one person.

The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month killed 95 people.

A Taliban official says a minibus has exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others.

Iranian officials say the death toll from an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing has risen to at least 91.

Iranian officials have tried to link Israel and the U.S. to an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing while speaking to a mass funeral for some of the 89 people killed in the attack.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike.

Officials say an airstrike on the logistical support headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad has killed a high-ranking militia commander.

It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS.

FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the U.S. He told lawmakers on Tuesday that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks.

The prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods is bringing back searing memories of the deadly battles the U.S.-led coalition fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

The death toll from a bombing in southwestern Pakistan as people celebrated the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday has risen to 54 after two wounded patients died in hospitals overnight.

Authorities in Pakistan say at least 52 people were killed and nearly 70 wounded after a suspected bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in the southwest of the country.

The U.S. military says it has captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria.

Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its citizens from a camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of people, mostly wives and children of Islamic State fighters but also supporters of the militant group.

The United States military called for an end to days of fighting between rival U.S.-backed groups in east Syria, warning it may help the resurgence of the Islamic State group.

Syrian opposition activists and pro-government media say Arab tribesmen have clashed with U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in several areas of eastern Syria, leaving at least 10 people dead and others wounded.

Islamic State extremists have almost doubled the territory they control in the West African country of Mali in less than a year.

U.N. experts say the Islamic State group still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across its former stronghold in Syria and Iraq and its fighters pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an ambush in eastern Syria that killed at least 20 government soldiers and wounded others.

Syrian opposition activists say gunmen have ambushed a bus carrying Syrian soldiers in the country’s east, killing at least 20 and wounding others.

Belgian media say a jury has found six people guilty of terrorist murder for extremist attacks in 2016 that killed 32 people.

A U.N.-backed human rights advocate says hundreds of boys held in detention camps run by U.S.-backed forces in opposition-controlled northeastern Syria have been wrongly separated from their mothers on the “unproven” belief that they pose a security risk.

The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency says the Netherlands and Belgium have joined an international investigation into atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority in Syria and Iraq.

The United States military says a helicopter accident in northeastern Syria over the weekend has left 22 U.S. service members injured to various degree.

A Taliban official says a bombing in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killed at least 13 people during a memorial service.

U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014.

Kurdish officials in northeast Syria have expanded a program to rehabilitate boys from the families of Islamic State group militants.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the leader of the Islamic State group was killed during an operation by Turkish forces in Syria.

U.S. officials say the Taliban have killed the Islamic State group militant who spearheaded the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

Reports say Islamic State militants have killed 26 people who were foraging for wild truffles in Syria’s Hama region.

The Taliban say their forces in Afghanistan have killed six members of the extremist Islamic State group during a raid in the country's north.

The United States military says a drone strike carried out by the U.S.-led coalition in northwestern Syria has killed a senior member of the Islamic State group who was in charge of planning attacks in Europe.

Authorities say rebels in eastern Congo killed at least 19 people and set fire to a health fire and houses.

Local authorities say the death toll from several attacks this week by extremist rebels in eastern Congo has risen to at least 45 people.

Congo's military said Thursday at least 36 people were killed by extremists in the country's conflict-riddled east.

The House has voted down a bill directing President Joe Biden to remove some 900 U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul.

In recent days, the Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than year, killing dozens of civilians and security officers in the deserts of central Syria.

A British woman whose U.K. citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group has lost an appeal in her fight to restore her citizenship.

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.

An Austrian court has convicted four men of terrorist offenses and participation in murder over their alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in Vienna in 2020.

A Jamaican cleric accused of recruiting support for the Islamic State group has been convicted in New York.

France has repatriated another group of women and children from former Islamic State group-controlled areas of Syria.

Islamic extremists have claimed responsibility for a weekend bombing of a church in eastern Congo.

The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants' hideouts in Afghanistan.

Libyan authorities say they have found 18 bodies buried in a mass grave in the central coastal city of Sirte, a former stronghold of the Islamic State group in the conflict-stricken North African nation.

American forces have conducted three raids in eastern Syria and arrested six Islamic State groups militants.

A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.

China has advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible,” following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul.

Kurdish forces and international players — after weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria — are trying to gauge whether Ankara’s threats of a ground invasion are serious.

Syrian opposition activists and state media apparently did not know that an Iraqi militant who was killed in October in southern Syria was the leader of the Islamic State group.

The spokesman for the Islamic State group says its leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in battle recently.

Security sources and a local government official say Islamic State group militants attacked an Iraqi army position in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk killing four soldiers.

A Syrian opposition war monitor and a local officials say the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls were found in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group.

Australia says four women and their 13 children who were held in a Syrian camp since the Islamic State group fell in 2019 have become only the second group of Australians to be repatriated from the war-torn country.

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire.

Former French President François Hollande has told a special terrorism court in Paris that the man who drove a truck into a crowded boardwalk in Nice on Bastille Day six years ago was responsible for “a terrorist act.”.

U.S. officials say U.S. forces killed three senior Islamic State leaders in two separate military operations in Syria Thursday, including a rare ground raid in a portion of the northeast that is controlled by the Syrian regime.

A tally compiled by The Associated Press shows that last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than double the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials.

A Taliban spokesman says a suicide bomber has killed 19 people and wounded 27 at an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital.

An alleged member of an Islamic State hostage-taking cell nicknamed “The Beatles” has been charged with terrorism offenses in Britain on Thursday after being deported from Turkey.

The Pentagon says it has killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike.