The IS terror group has named its new leader after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by US forces, along with his “number one replacement.”

Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka via its al-Amaq news agency.

The US has declared the powerful terror group defeated, but its sleeper cells and shadowy networks are set for an even more devastating return.

"I know in fact that I was a citizen. When I tried filing for a passport it was very easy. It came in 10 days," the Alabama woman told NBC News.

US President Donald Trump says a woman who left the US to become a propagandist for the Islamic State (IS) group will not be allowed to return.

A YOUNG nursing student has been revealed as the Adelaide woman accused of being a member of terror organisation Islamic State.

Iraq has announced that its war against so-called Islamic State is over.

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The US-led coalition has downed a government warplane in southern Syria, the Syrian army and coalition have announced in separate statements. The Syrian military added that the plane’s pilot is now missing.

President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has condemned a massive bomb attack in the capital Kabul, which killed at least 90 people, as "cowardly".

The U.S. has more than 8,000 US troops in Afghanistan, training local forces and conducting counterterrorism operations.

VLADIMIR Putin says Russia has information that the United States is planning to launch new missile strikes on Syria, and that there were plans for the US to fake chemical weapons attacks there.

The US military is deploying 2,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait, with the declared goal of taking part in operations against Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) in both Syria and Iraq, according to the Army Times.

Washington should move from viewing Russia as a permanent adversary to a partner at times, Rex Tillerson, nominated to head the State Department under President-elect Donald Trump, said during a hearing of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

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President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Monday to discuss the future of the US-Russia relationship.

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Iraqi forces have for the first time entered the outskirts of Mosul, as they attempt to drive Islamic State (IS) militants from the northern city.

ADVANCING Iraqi troops have reportedly broken through Islamic State defense lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul, taking the battle for the insurgent stronghold to inside the city limits for the first time, a force commander says.

The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic State (IS) is driven out of its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul, an official warns.