More foreign jihadists than ever before are traveling to Syria and Iraq to take up arms alongside Islamic State militants, the UN says.
Philip Ross
Oct 30, 2014
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says the decision to require 21-day quarantine periods for troops returning from West Africa was "science-oriented."
Connor Adams Sheets
Oct 30, 2014
Before the shooting began, one militant gunman said, "We’re going to eat well tonight," according to a survivor.
Alessandria Masi
Oct 30, 2014
The Islamic State group targeted members of the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe, which had fought against them in Anbar.
Avaneesh Pandey
Oct 30, 2014
The move comes after a New York Times investigation revealed that incidents of troops being exposed to chemicals were covered up.
Mark Hanrahan
Oct 30, 2014
The millennial vote is still up for grabs, and it could swing the 2014 midterms, according to a new Harvard University Institute of Politics poll.
Julia Glum
Oct 29, 2014
Turkey has allowed Iraqi peshmerga fighters and Free Syrian Army rebels to travel to Kobani to assist in the fight against ISIS.
Avaneesh Pandey
Oct 29, 2014
The U.S. added extra security to federal buildings Tuesday after the Ottawa shooting last week.
Maria Vultaggio
Oct 28, 2014
Iraqi peshmerga forces will go to Kobani through Turkey to help Syrian Kurds fight ISIS militants
Alessandria Masi
Oct 28, 2014
The new bill was introduced less than a week after a gunman stormed Canada's parliament building, killing a soldier at a nearby war memorial.
Avaneesh Pandey
Oct 28, 2014
Residents of Baghdad say government militias haven't been able to protect them from ISIS car and suicide bombers.
Erin Banco
Oct 27, 2014
The U.S. has been fighting back the Taliban in Afghanistan for 13 years, but now the jihadist group is back and taking territory.
Christopher Harress
Oct 27, 2014
The attack occurred in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar, which was taken back by government forces from ISIS over the weekend.
Sneha Shankar
Oct 27, 2014
Kurdish forces have been holding out for weeks against a concerted assault by militants of the Islamic State group on Kobani.
Avaneesh Pandey
Oct 27, 2014
Lance Cpl. Sean Neal is the first U.S. serviceman to die in an ISIS mission. He was 19.
Maria Vultaggio
Oct 26, 2014
The Iraqi advances came after the news that Kurdish forces had recaptured the town of Zumar.
Charles Poladian
Oct 26, 2014
Islamic State group militants reportedly shell the Syrian border town as the anti-ISIS coalition continues its air campaign.
Alessandria Masi
Oct 25, 2014
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes reportedly paved the way for Kurdish forces to retake the Iraqi town of Zumar.
Alessandria Masi
Oct 25, 2014
The Syrian Kurds could be the coalition's best shot at defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Erin Banco
Oct 24, 2014
The mission was part of a larger coalition operation that dropped 70 bombs on unspecified ISIS targets.
Thomas Barrabi
Oct 24, 2014
The Obama administration is debating whether some U.S.-Canadian border checkpoints that are now unmanned should be more vigorously protected.
Cristina Silva
Oct 24, 2014
John Baird said that while the attacker was 'certainly radicalized' that authorities 'don't have any evidence' to tie him to the Islamic State.
Mark Hanrahan
Oct 24, 2014