February 24, 2017 Christians flee Egypt's Sinai after militant killings Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Christian man inside his home in northern Sinai, officials and a priest said Friday, the latest in a string of sectarian killings there that has sent hundreds of Christians fleeing and raised accusations the government is failing to protect the community.
February 24, 2017 Car bomb attack near Syrian town captured from ISIS kills 35 Turkey's news agency says a car bomb north of a town just captured by Turkish forces and Syrian opposition fighters from Islamic State militants has killed at least 35 people.
February 23, 2017 US group accuses Kurds of keeping Yazidi, Christian refugees from their Iraqi homeland Iraq's long-persecuted Yazidi and Assyrian Christian minorities are blasting claims by the country's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) that its refusal to let them return home aims only to protect them.
February 23, 2017 McCain makes secret trip to Syria as US debates new plans to fight Islamic State Sen. John McCain made a secret trip to northern Syria to visit U.S. military officials and Kurdish fighters and to discuss the campaign for defeating the Islamic State, his office said Wednesday.
February 22, 2017 Gitmo likely to stay open for business under Trump, say top aides Top White House aides suggest that President Trump intends to keep the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay open, even as one former detainee's suicide attack near Mosul Tuesday underscored the danger of releasing dangerous captives.
February 22, 2017 Swiss police lead raids, arrest 1 in probe of ISIS recruiting At least one person has been arrested in southern Switzerland as part of a criminal probe over suspected recruiting for the Islamic State group or related organizations.
February 21, 2017 Pentagon can't confirm report ISIS suicide bomber was former Gitmo prisoner The Pentagon said Tuesday that it could not confirm a report that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee carried out a suicide attack on behalf of ISIS in Mosul, Iraq this week.
February 20, 2017 ISIS Egypt affiliate: Christians are our 'favorite prey' An Islamic State affiliate released a video Monday vowing that Egyptian Christians are their "favorite prey," showing images of a suicide bomber who killed nearly 30 people inside a packed Cairo church in December.
February 19, 2017 Iraqi forces launch large-scale push to retake western Mosul from ISIS Iraqi forces launched an operation on Sunday to retake the western half of Mosul from the Islamic State group.
February 17, 2017 Afghan official: ISIS kills 17 Afghan Army soldiers in east An Afghan official says the Islamic State group launched an attack on Afghan security posts killing 17 soldiers.