With its reign of terror in the Middle East, its claim to have brought down a Russian passenger jet and now, the atrocities in Paris, ISIS has commanded global headlines as the world’s most dangerous terror group. But another militant Islamist organization overtook ISIS to become the world’s deadliest terrorist group last year,according to a new report. Boko Haram, the ...

Two bomb attacks in 24 hours — one of them involving an 11-year-old female bomber — killed dozens of people and wounded more than 120 others in the Nigerian cities of Yola and Kano, authorities said. At least 31 people were killed and 72 others injured in a bomb blast Tuesday evening in the northeastern city of Yola, Aliyu Maikano, ...

Beijing has vowed to bring ISIS to justice after the group said it had executed two hostages, a Chinese and a Norwegian. ISIS said it had killed the two men, identified as Chinese national Fan Jinghui and Norwegian citizen Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad in its English-language online magazine Dabiq.President Xi Jinping “strongly condemned” ISIS for the killing of Fan, the first ...

Gunmen who raided a Malian hotel shouted “Allahu akbar” as they sprayed bullets on tables of people who were gathered for breakfast, a witness said. The attackers did not say a word to anyone as they opened fire Friday morning, employee Tamba Couye said. They shot at “anything that moved” as terrified patrons dashed for cover all over the hotel, ...

French police investigating the Paris attacks Thursday raided the home of the mother of a woman believed to have blown herself up during a massive police assault this week. The siege on a building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday left two people dead, ISIS member Abdelhamid Abaaoud and a woman who detonated an explosive vest during ...

World leaders vowed tighter border controls, more intelligence sharing and a crackdown on terrorist financing after the Paris attacks, but there was little sign at a G20 summit on Monday of a dramatic shift in strategy against Islamic State in Syria. U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at the end of the G20 meetings in Turkey, said the coordinated attacks in ...

The bloody attacks in Paris show that France is a target of choice for jihadists due to its air strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, as well as its controversial ban on the burqa face veil and attitude to Muslims, according to analysts. “If you can kill an American or European infidel, especially the dirty, nasty French … then ...

The US State Department has approved the sale of $1.29 billion (£848.6m) worth of bombs to Saudi Arabia, as its military carries out air strikes in neighbouring Yemen. President Obama pledged to bolster military support for Saudi Arabia after tensions were strained following a US-brokered nuclear deal with Iran. The US Congress now has 30 days to stop the deal ...

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man French authorities suspect of masterminding the attacks in Paris, has appeared in Islamic State (IS) group promotional videos driving a car dragging mutilated bodies towards a mass grave. Abaaoud, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Umar al-Baljiki, has been on the run since police stormed a jihadist cell in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers ...

More than a dozen US states say Syrian refugees are no longer welcome due to security fears after the Paris attacks. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan said he was suspending the acceptance of new arrivals until after a review. Alabama, Texas and several other states issued similar statements but a State Department spokesman said the legality of this action was ...