The Latest Breaking News from Islamic State

Mali's military said it has killed over 200 Islamist militants in an operation in the centre of the West African country, the latest clash in a month of escalating violence.

As a Virginia jury hears horrific allegations, experts say the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh sets an important precedent

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors

Wednesday was eagerly anticipated as a crucial day at the Paris attacks trial. Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the suicide killers who murdered 130 people on the night of 13 November 2015, was to give his version of what really happened. The public benches were packed. The media showed…

A London-born Islamic State fighter accused of being part of the notorious ‘Beatles’ terror cell allegedly dished out “going-away beatings” to hostages who were about to be released, a US court has heard.

Russia is concerned about the plans of militant group Islamic State to destabilise central Asia and spread instability to the country as well, the RIA news agency said.

Prosecutors told a federal jury that a British national on trial for terrorist acts that resulted in the gruesome deaths of four American hostages had a reputation for outsize brutality

A former British national accused of engaging in "brutal hostage-taking" as an alleged member of an Islamic State cell nicknamed "the Beatles" appeared in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday for the start of his criminal trial.

Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith has pleaded not guilty to charges of membership of IS and providing funds to benefit the group.