Islamic State campaign tests Obama's commitment to Mideast allies

After about 15 hours of flying and five hours of meetings, sleep finally caught up with U.S. Secretary of State John...

Washington wins diplomatic support for campaign in Iraq; Syria trickier

World powers backed military measures on Monday to help defeat Islamic State fighters in Iraq, boosting Washington's...

President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. air strikes for the first...

Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt's most dangerous...

The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle...

Salim Sheikh says he watched in fear as Sunni militants executed an Iraqi in June who they accused of...

The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage...

Islamic State fighters executed scores of Syrian soldiers captures when the militants seized an airbase in the province...

Washington said countries in the Middle East had offered to join air strikes against Islamic State militants and...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it was "not appropriate" for Iran to join...

Arab League foreign ministers agreed on Sunday to take all necessary measures to confront Islamic State and cooperate...

In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hardline al Qaeda...

The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, said on Wednesday he was...

Even for a freelance journalist covering the tumult in the Arab world, Steven Sotloff's travels seemed...

(WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Islamic State fighters have reportedly executed 250 Syrian soldiers after capturing the Taqba air...