Militant Extremist Group

Fighting in northern Syria between Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and Islamic State militants killed at least 15 rebels as the opposition tried to push toward a town of symbolic importance for the extremists, an activist group and Turkish officials said Monday.

Two men from Anaheim, California, were found guilty on Tuesday of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS militants, one of them going so far as to attempt to travel to the Middle East to join the extremist group, federal prosecutors said.

Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shiite militant group's top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack.

The US Justice Department convened a meeting with social media companies and other groups on Wednesday to discuss ways to counter the use of cyberspace by militant extremist groups like ISIS and support strategic counter-messaging campaigns.

Thirty-four militant groups from around the world had reportedly pledged allegiance to the ISIS terror group as of mid-December - and that number will only grow in 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report on Friday.

Europe's top police agency issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal attacks on soft targets in Europe as the militant group increasingly goes global.

Police in Bosnia said today that they have detained 11 people suspected of links with the ISIS and its militants fighting in Syria and Iraq.

According to the news site Vocativ, which mines social media for its scoops, an online sympathizer of the Islamic State proposed a somewhat bizarre new tactic for the militant group over the weekend. Using the messaging app Telegram, this apparent Islamic State loyalist uploaded what Vocativ deemed a "comprehensive plan" to target coalition aircraf...

Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party, probably because they feared getting caught in a U.S. law enforcement sting, U.S. government sources said on Thursday.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hit an open field in southern Israel today morning, the Israeli army said in a statement.

Extremist groups feed off of alienation, some counterterrorism experts say, and Islamist militants deliberately aim to make Muslims in the West feel isolated and turn against their own communities.

After Jammu and Kashmir, Assam has the most interest in the extremist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the Assam police are now keeping a strict watch on internet traffic in the state.

A statement from Benghazi-based extremist Islamic militant group Ansar al-Shariah says its leader Mohammed al-Zahawi has been killed.

Extremists are working to excise women from public life across the territory controlled by the Islamic State group, stretching hundreds of kilometers from the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo in the west to the edges of the Iraqi capital in the east.

Egypt's Interior Ministry says security forces killed five militants from a Sinai-based group allied with Islamic State extremists during a raid in the country's north.

Fighting in northern Syria between Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and Islamic State militants killed at least 15 rebels as the opposition tried to push toward a town of symbolic importance for the extremists, an activist group and Turkish officials said Monday.

Two men from Anaheim, California, were found guilty on Tuesday of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS militants, one of them going so far as to attempt to travel to the Middle East to join the extremist group, federal prosecutors said.

Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shiite militant group's top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack.

The US Justice Department convened a meeting with social media companies and other groups on Wednesday to discuss ways to counter the use of cyberspace by militant extremist groups like ISIS and support strategic counter-messaging campaigns.

Thirty-four militant groups from around the world had reportedly pledged allegiance to the ISIS terror group as of mid-December - and that number will only grow in 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report on Friday.

Europe's top police agency issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal attacks on soft targets in Europe as the militant group increasingly goes global.

Police in Bosnia said today that they have detained 11 people suspected of links with the ISIS and its militants fighting in Syria and Iraq.

According to the news site Vocativ, which mines social media for its scoops, an online sympathizer of the Islamic State proposed a somewhat bizarre new tactic for the militant group over the weekend. Using the messaging app Telegram, this apparent Islamic State loyalist uploaded what Vocativ deemed a "comprehensive plan" to target coalition aircraf...

Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party, probably because they feared getting caught in a U.S. law enforcement sting, U.S. government sources said on Thursday.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hit an open field in southern Israel today morning, the Israeli army said in a statement.

Extremist groups feed off of alienation, some counterterrorism experts say, and Islamist militants deliberately aim to make Muslims in the West feel isolated and turn against their own communities.

After Jammu and Kashmir, Assam has the most interest in the extremist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the Assam police are now keeping a strict watch on internet traffic in the state.

A statement from Benghazi-based extremist Islamic militant group Ansar al-Shariah says its leader Mohammed al-Zahawi has been killed.

Extremists are working to excise women from public life across the territory controlled by the Islamic State group, stretching hundreds of kilometers from the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo in the west to the edges of the Iraqi capital in the east.

Egypt's Interior Ministry says security forces killed five militants from a Sinai-based group allied with Islamic State extremists during a raid in the country's north.