TERRORISM

Lebanese soldier Ali Al-Sayyed was beheaded by Islamic State militants, a video released Saturday by the terrorist group shows.

Banking laws designed to cut off funds to terror groups are woefully outdated.

While ISIS takes the spotlight, the Taliban has launched a campaign in Afghanistan to retake the land it lost to Western troops - and Obama may be forced to respond.

The U.K. raised its terror threat level to "severe," meaning a terrorist attack is "highly likely."

The Islamic State reportedly picked on James Foley because it found photographs of his brother working in the U.S. Air Force.

The White House quickly moved to clarify Obama's statement that the U.S. did not have a strategy in place yet to deal with ISIS in Syria.

U.S. officials said they are close to forming an international coalition to fight ISIS, reminiscent of the beginnings of the war on terror.

Abu-Salha also claims that he drew inspiration from the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical US cleric who was killed in a drone strike.

Ailina Tsarnaeva allegedly made the threat against a New York woman involved in a child-custody dispute with her boyfriend.

The State Department is investigating reports that a second American was killed fighting for the extremists.

"As a mother, I ask your justice to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over," Shirley Sotloff said.

U.S. intelligence and anti-terrorism finance experts say the Islamic State could be raising more than $2 million a day.

Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., says North Korea, Iran and Pakistan are more worrisome existential threats to the U.S. than ISIS is.

Three people were killed by Boko Haram in the border towns of Ashigashya and Kerawa, as almost 500 Nigerian soldiers fled to Cameroon.

The Syrian military has lost an airbase to ISIS, which keeps advancing. U.S. surveillance flights could be a boon for Assad regime forces.

Suspicion that James Foley's killer is British raises questions about the many Europeans who have joined ISIS to fight in Syria and Iraq.

The tiny kingdom may have just saved American hostage Peter Theo Curtis, but it's also believed to be funding terrorist groups.

ISIS, which took advantage of Western technology to spread the James Foley video, appears to have drone capabilities.

The president spent two weeks in Martha's Vineyard as American journalist James Foley was beheaded and the situation in Ferguson unraveled.

Militant group Boko Haram declared an Islamic caliphate in parts of Nigeria's northeast, which it has wrested from the army's control.

The family of Peter Theo Curtis says it is unaware of the circumstances surrounding his release.