A senior figure of the ISIS group has been seized in a US-led coalition operation in northwest Syria, according to reports from Syrian state media and a war monitor. But confusion remains after another Syrian security source claimed the man was killed while attempting to flee.

State Department says nearly 14,500 people from over 70 countries remain in al-Hol, Roj camps, calls on countries to repatriate their citizens - Anadolu Ajansı

Syrian authorities on Monday described a deadly incident in northern Aleppo province as an isolated case, stating that a man who detonated a hand grenade - killing only himself - was a drug user with a criminal record,

The group's ultimate goal is to establish a “caliphate” in Central Africa, similar to ISIS’s vision in Iraq and Syria. A massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spotlighted the growing threat of extremist groups operating across Central Africa.

U.S. troops have withdrawn from the outpost in Syria where a handful of American special operators and Marines fought off an assault by Russian mercenaries in 2018, a battle in which the American troops left a force 10 times their size scattered across the desert battlefield.

The resurrected story of a Syrian monastery destroyed by ISIS.

A massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has shone a spotlight on extremist groups operating across central Africa. This type of massacre is not new. Extremist groups, some of them linked to the Islamic State or ISIS, have been operating across parts of Africa for many years.

Suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members on Tuesday attacked a checkpoint of the Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor said, and no casualties were reported.