UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a significant threat in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe, U.N. counterterrorism experts ...

UNITED NATIONS — The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are growing in Syria, which both groups view as a “a strategic ...

Last weekend, insurgents from IS-aligned groups the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram launched a pre-dawn raid on a military base in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, ...

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced yesterday that it rolled up an Islamic State (IS) financial network that spanned three unspecified West African countries. According to Iraqi ...

Yesterday, the US Treasury Department sanctioned three Islamic State facilitators based in Zambia, Uganda, and South Africa. The three have operated as part of a coordinated network that moves money ...