WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his final sign-off Monday to lifting longstanding US sanctions on Syria after pledging to ...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Al Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks against military posts across Mali on Tuesday. The group ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

U.S. warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites in a dramatic escalation—just the latest in a long, bloody pattern. From proxy ...

Suspected jihadists attacked military installations in several towns in western Mali early Tuesday, the military and ...

President Donald Trump on Monday lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, signing an executive order to carry out a promise he made in May. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters ahead of ...

After US Congressman Bill Huizenga said, “Afghanistan has once again become a hotbed for terrorists looking for safe harbor,” ...

A Co Antrim man awaiting sentence on charges including firearms offences has been remanded into custody. Mark Daniel Waller ...

Al Qaeda is not without friends within Afghanistan, beyond its long historical ties with the Haqqani Network, a powerful player within the Taliban regime.

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

Al-Qaeda has survived significant losses over the past 12 years%2C but keeps finding openings; Now that U.S. is gone%2C Iraq seems particularly fertile ground for terrorists%2C observers say; ...

If al Qaeda were a state or something akin to a state in 1996, then by implication Afghanistan and the Taliban did not so much host al Qaeda as surround it, as if it were an enclaved state.