WASHINGTON — The Pentagon tracks every Islamic State fighter it kills and reports the body count regularly to the highest levels but refuses to discuss the toll publicly, USA TODAY has learned. A ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) - The wife of deceased ISIL member Abu Sayyaf has been charged in the 2014 murder of American humanitarian aid worker Kayla Jean Mueller. On August 3, 2013, Mueller, 26, of Prescott ...

The difference probably has to do with a combination of underestimating ISIL strength, claiming more enemy dead for publicity purposes and not being able (or willing because of other priorities) to ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led bombing campaign has killed an estimated 20,000 Islamic State fighters, an increase from the 15,000 the Pentagon reported in July, according to a senior military officer.

questions about the government’s ability to contain an insurgency that has already killed hundreds of police and soldiers. The insurgents want to topple the Cairo government and have stepped up their ...

The number of ISIL fighters killed after the United States’ army dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb was at least 90, Afghan officials said on Saturday, raising a death toll of 36 reported a day ...

This provides targets for artillery and mortars, forcing ISIL to move carefully and, of necessity slowly, to avoid detection. ISIL still has an edge in their use of suicide bombers on foot and in ...

An improvised explosive device planted next to a police station south of the Saudi capital Riyadh killed one person, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried on state news agency SPA on ...

new video loaded: Photos purport to show Iraqi captives shot dead by ISIL gunmen ISIL fighters release images of a possible execution scene with the warning "This is the fate of the Shi'ites which ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon tracks every Islamic State fighter it kills and reports the body count regularly to the highest levels, but refuses to discuss the toll publicly, USA TODAY has learned. A ...