Soldiers rescued the civilian captives who were being held by the Allied Democratic Forces, a group linked with ISIL.

A spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, said Sunday the militant group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike conducted by the U.S.-led coalition forces ...

Iraqi Kurdistan has a 650-mile front with the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and hosts almost 2 million refugees and internally displaced ...

WASHINGTON, (Jan. 13, 2016) -- Delivering a lasting defeat to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, must be a global effort, and coalition partners and others must step up their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkish police block off a road near the site of the ISIL operation in Elmalik village, Yalova province, which led to seven ...

Turkish security forces have disrupted planned attacks on Christmas and New Year celebrations after arresting more than 100 suspected ISIL (ISIS) operatives in Istanbul, officials said. Authorities ...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he's hoping this year to drive the Islamic State out of the two largest and most important cities in its self-proclaimed caliphate, Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.

The United States has launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups it claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) in Nigeria, President Donald Trump said on Thursday. The unprecedented Christmas ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The case against three young Somali-American men being tried on charges that they conspired to join the Islamic State wrapped up Tuesday, with prosecutors arguing that the men eagerly ...

Four years ago last week, an al Qaeda splinter group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant declared the formation of a global caliphate. Throughout 2014, ISIL acquired a broad swath ...