Khalid Mahmood says Foreign Office's official figure of 500 fighters is an "underestimation."
The Pentagon hopes to send $24 million worth of weapons to tribesmen in Iraq to fight Islamic State militants.
Some families have had mothers, daughters and sisters kidnapped and sold into slavery by Islamic State group militants.
Three-hundred protesters demonstrated against Biden's visit.
The Saudi Arabian national is the seventh prisoner to be released by the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in the past three weeks.
Islamic State group militants continue to encroach on a province near Iraq's capital.
The president signed a secret order to expand U.S. forces' role in the war-torn country, according to a New York Times report.
A group of Canadian Forces vets add to a growing list of Western fighters who have ISIS militants in their crosshairs.
The latest split in extremist ranks comes after a decade-long rocky relationship.
If the provincial capital falls, ISIS would gain a major foothold close to Baghdad.
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The U.S. has so far failed to topple President Bashar Assad and is now considering a new strategy in Syria.
A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested in Jordan on Thursday, the third such high-profile arrest in recent months.
Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron had said Britain will introduce tough laws to counter terrorism at home.
Over 1,000 French nationals and nearly 3,000 Europeans are believed to have joined militant groups like ISIS in the Middle East.
In Iraq, the strikes against Islamic State were concentrated on the oil-producing north.
Baghdad and Kurdish officials in Iraqi Kurdistan have begun to ease tensions over oil exports.
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The suicide bomb was the first fatal attack in the Kurdish city in over a year.
Authorities identified a second French national in the latest ISIS video, raising concerns over Westerners joining extremist groups.
ISIS is estimated to be the world’s wealthiest terrorist group and is said to have an arsenal matching that of a conventional military force.
Most legislators support the fight against ISIS. But they're not sure how to fund it -- or whether they want to be on record with a vote.