The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Friday that fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, are using civilians as human shields.
The Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West, CIA Director John Brennan told Congress on Thursday, while confirming the Orlando "lone wolf" shooter had no direct links to the extreme group.
Two United Nations (UN) rapporteurs on Wednesday urged immediate protection for thousands of civilians caught up in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) offensives in the Aleppo region of northern Syria.
Canada's CF-18 hornet fighters conducted their first combat strike Monday since joining the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Oct. 30, Canadian Minister of National Defense Rob Nicholson said Monday.
Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that American ground troops could be called into battle against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria if circumstances require.
The UN Security Council on Sunday "strongly condemned the heinous and cowardly murder" of David Haines, a British humanitarian aid worker, by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
One month after authorizing U.S. military to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) forces in Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed that he "will not hesitate to take action" against the Islamic State in Syria.
A senior UN envoy called on Iraqi government to probe into the attack at Camp Speicher military base in June and massacres of hundreds of Iraqis soldiers by extremists, a UN spokesman said Wednesday.
U.S. will keep air operations in Iraq with the aim to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their fight against terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Iraqi civilians, said the Pentagon.
U.S. airstrikes and military assistance to Iraqi and Kurdish security forces have stalled the advance of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces around Erbil, Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday.
U.S. air power helped Kurdish fighters retake a major Iraqi dam from terrorists over the weekend, but the Islamic radicals are still a formidable force in the embattled nation, and the United States may well stay in the fight for the foreseeable future, experts say.
The United States had recently attempted to rescue a number of American hostages, including slain journalist James Foley, held in Syria by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but the mission failed, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby on Wednesday said.
U.S. air campaign in Iraq is expected to continue for some time, with no endgame in sight as Iraq battles advancing Islamic extremists.
The ongoing Syria crisis, which began more than three years ago, shows no signs of abating, with infighting among rebel groups intensifying and the humanitarian situation worsening.
Syria's main opposition group postponed deciding whether to participate in the Geneva II peace conference, as radical groups engage in bitter infighting besides their insurgency against the Syrian government.
Thirteen Syrian Islamist rebel factions, including al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, said in a statement Wednesday that they reject the leadership of exiled Syrian National Coalition (SNC), calling instead on all the opposition forces to unite under an Islamic umbrella.
Despite overrunning many areas of Syria, the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) received a blow from its former main ally al-Qaeda, forcing the political opposition to reconsider its attitudes and agree to take part in negotiations with the Syrian government to reach a solution to the Syrian crisis.
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