(Reuters) - The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls tracts of  Syria  and Iraq has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram, his spokesman said, calling on supporters to fight in Africa. Boko Haram, which has killed...

(Reuters) - U.S. and coalition partners conducted 13 air strikes against Islamic State militants in  Iraq  since early Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Five of the strikes in Iraq hit vehicles and Islamic State excavators near Kirkuk, and three air strikes struck...

(Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants. In a possible response to the fighting north of...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Local forces supported by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes seized a key terrain from the Daesh terror group in northeast Syria, the U.S. said Tuesday.   The seizure now denies the terror group, also known as ISIL, access to its...