In One Map, The Dramatic Rise Of The Islamic State Militants : Parallels The radical Sunni Muslim group has seized many towns and cities in both Syria and Iraq since last year. Here's an animated ...

The US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) says 98% of territory once claimed by the jihadist group across Iraq and Syria has been recaptured. Iraq's government announced in ...

Looking at a map of the Islamic State, ... that area which combined with the “black land” further down the rivers to invent the state of Iraq. By extension, though, ...

Islamic State militants have been steadily losing ground in Iraq since last the summer, but it is still too early to say the Iraqi government and the U.S.-led coalition are winning the fight, a ...

The Pentagon says that while Islamic State militants have lost control of up to 6,500 square miles in Iraq, they have gained a bit of ground in Syria since last August.

The Islamic State has been very formidable during the conflict so far — and U.S. allies in the Kurds and the Iraqi security forces are going to need all the help they can get to stop it.

The capital of the Anbar province was a major battlefield in the counterinsurgency that overtook Iraq in 2006-2007. The city's fall to the Islamic State was not only a strategic win for the group ...

Over the past four months, fighters from the Islamic State have targeted cities and areas in northern Iraq and Syria and massacred soldiers and residents, especially those belonging to minority ...

As this animated map shows, the extremist group now known as the Islamic State has made major gains since early last year with the declared goal of establishing an Islamic empire, or caliphate, in ...