TERRORISM

As many poll respondents linked the word "Muslims" with "extremist" as they did with "prayer."

The media wing of al Qaeda in Yemen confirmed that its leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed Monday.

The United States donated $5 billion to the coalition fighting Boko Haram militants.

The al Qaeda-linked terrorist who masterminded attacks across North Africa was killed in a U.S. airstrike.

The raid came just a few hours after members of the group targeted a military vehicle with a road side bomb.

The Kurds' advance has put the Islamic State group on the defensive after the militant organization had won a series of military victories in Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. is leading an aerial campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since last August.

"You can't negotiate with an entity like this," Australian Prime Minister Abbott said at this year's regional anti-jihadist summit.

"Above all, we need idealistic young people to appreciate that joining this death cult is an utterly misguided and wrong-headed way to express their desire to sacrifice."

According to a report from the Guardian, ISIS has drained recruits and money from al Qaeda, whose leadership has been cut off from its commanders.

Despite an American-led air campaign to eradicate ISIS, the extremist group is now operational in 10 countries — and its brand of unparalleled brutality is expanding rapidly.

Zainab Bangura, a United Nations envoy who visited Iraq and Syria in April, recounts her interactions with teenage girls who managed to escape the captivity of the Islamic State group.

As Hezbollah attacks al Qaeda's stronghold in Lebanon, militants resort to putting prisoners on tape.

The U.S. is still hammering out a strategy to combat ISIS, President Barack Obama said during a news conference Monday from the G-7 summit in Germany.

Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain’s biggest challenge is fighting extremist Islamist terrorism as represented by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

The Syrian army said on Sunday it had repulsed a major offensive by Islamic State militants in the northeastern city of Hasaka.

A New York Times investigation suggests the American military relies on special forces far too often with little oversight.

The demonstrators were mostly peaceful in advance of the two-day gathering of world leaders.

An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday canceled a ruling to list the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said.

The double suicide bombing at a crowded market in Yola on Thursday killed at least 31 people and wounded scores more.

Over 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks since last weekend in Maiduguri, the capital of the restive state of Borno.