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Anti-Islamic State activist in Raqqa, Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, posted the leaflet on Twitter Saturday.

Across territory in Iraq and Syria held by the Islamic State group, the extremists are recruiting teens and children using gifts, threats and brainwashing.

Saudi Arabia said it has arrested 431 suspected Islamic State terrorists and thwarted six suicide attacks by militants.

Gen. Kevin Killea. “With more than 5,200 strikes in Syria and Iraq since the beginning of the air campaign, the coalition continues to show its commitment to supporting anti-[ISIL] forces”.

Beirut: Islamic State has welcomed more than 1,100 minors among its ranks in Syria since the beginning of this year, referring to them as the “caliphate cubs”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR reported on Thursday. The group’s website was not...

Turkey’s preparations come as concerns grow of a major escalation in the Syrian province of Aleppo that would include Islamic State (IS) jihadists, rebels, government forces and Kurds.

Anti-terror police carried out simultaneous raids in four areas, including Istanbul, the news agency said. However, the nationalities of the three foreign detainees were not immediately revealed.

At the outset of his statement, Obama sought to temper any extraordinarily positive expectations by reminding Americans, again, that the effort to defeat the Islamic State “will not be quick”, and military forces are still staring down a “long-term...

The president’s meetings with top Pentagon officials and other national security advisers follow a wave of weekend airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Syria.

The briefing comes a little over a year after Islamic State militants burst out of Syria and captured much of northwestern Iraq, laying bare the frailty of Iraqi security forces and the vulnerability of the Baghdad government following the US military withdrawal in 2011.

President Obama (L) is flanked by military leaders as he delivers remarks after a briefing on USA efforts against the Islamic State (ISIS), at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., July 6, 2015.

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Separate from the Syrian Kurds, the United States is training about 190 moderate Syrians at sites in Jordan and Turkey with the aim of sending them back into battle to defend their hometowns against the Islamic State.

A state of emergency temporarily gives the government more flexibility and the army and police more authority, and restricts the right of public assembly.

The attack was Tunisia’s deadliest ever, and threatened to be a devastating blow to the country’s tourism sector.