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The Scandinavian nation also will send 250 pilots and support staff to the region.

The U.S. is trying to get more countries to agree to join a coalition against the Islamic State, in Iraq and Syria.

The airstrikes on 12 refineries near Al Hasakah, Al Mayadin and Abu Kamal were carried out late on Wednesday and early on Thursday.

The Islamic State group has no credible plans to attack the New York City subway system.

If citizen journalists have been able to identify the location of Islamic State fighters, U.S. officials probably can too.

Under pressure in the north of the country, ISIS fighters have turned their attention south, taking a military base near Baghdad.

After years of military cuts, experts raise questions about whether the UK can make a meaningful impact against ISIS.

Islamic State terrorists have allegedly plotted attacks on New York and Paris subways, Iraq’s prime minister said at the U.N. Thursday.

The videos of the brutal beheadings of James Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines helped rally global opinion against the extremist Islamic State group.

“Today’s anti-Westernism is the offspring of yesterday’s colonialism," Iranian President Rouhani told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.

The professional services firm forecasts that retail sales will grow at least 4 percent this season vs. 2.8 percent last season.

This marks the second round of French airstrikes in Iraq since the country joined the U.S.-led coalition last Friday.

France has so far ruled out joining the U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State group.

Anjem Choudary — a self-styled preacher and former head of banned Islamist group Islam4UK — is reportedly among the nine people arrested.

Maduro demanded an overhaul of the UN and said that the West is busy “bombing the people of Iraq and Syria” though Ebola is the biggest threat.

The British prime minister reportedly said that “past mistakes” should not be an “excuse for indifference or inaction” in the fight against ISIS.

Obama, speaking at the UN, asked the world to join together to fight the militants and vowed to keep up military pressure against them.

The secretary of state says the U.S. would pledge $40 million for Syria's opposition groups, part of which will be to boost their ability to govern.

The expansion of the designated terrorist list could mean more targets for airstrikes in Syria.

The U.S. military said it was targeting 12 of the Islamic State group's "modular" refineries, which generate around $2 million a day.

White House officials want to clarify legal justifications for the airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, but definitive answers are hard to come by.