The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. "We have credible...

A U.S. Army general says ISIS is making small inroads in Afghanistan and could grow into a more worrisome threat. Speaking to Pentagon reporters on Friday from his offices in Kabul, Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner said ISIS is not yet capable of coordinating military operations in more than one part...

The spokesman of Egypt's armed forces says a military aircraft crashed near the border with Libya because of a technical failure while on a counterterrorism mission, killing four crew members and wounding two. Brig. Gen. Mohamed Samir says on his Facebook page that the aircraft crashed Thursday...

Two Israeli Arabs have been arrested after an unsuccessful bid to join the ranks of ISIS by passing through Turkey to Syria, security and judicial sources said Thursday. Adnan Salameh, from Ramleh near Tel Aviv, was arrested at that city's Ben Gurion airport on July 28 after having been...