After the exhaustive de-Baathification process, disbandment of 300,000 Saddam's Sunni army, and imprisonment of many Sunni leaders, the occupying power, mainly the United States of America, flared up hatred and revenge among the Sunni group that governed Iraq since the Ottoman Empire.

A deputy leader of Islamic State (IS), Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a US military strike in northern Iraq, the White House says.

The Obama Administration, which defied the hawkish opposition at home and abroad and signed the historic Nuclear Deal with Iran, seems to have condoned President Erdogan's military operation in Iraq.

The High Court rejects bail petition of a UK citizen of Bangladeshi origin, who came here for recruiting jihadists for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in a case filed for conspiring to establish an IS group in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh embassy suspends operations in war-torn Libya, advises Bangladeshis including migrant workers to avoid traveling there.

Two deadly car bombs hit the capital Sanaa and a southern city in Yemen on Tuesday, state news agency Saba reported, a day after air strike and clashes killed almost 200 people nationwide.

Iran has played the extremist card to the hilt and managed to run rings around the US that continues to suffer from a joint ISIS-Al Qaeda phobia...

THE centre of gravity shifts every few years. The shattered buildings look like real estate displays as if walls and roofs were

Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq's vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city outskirts.

The suspected mass graves of up to 1,700 captured Iraqi soldiers killed by IS militants have been found in the city of Tikrit.

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.

WHY is it that schools and schoolchildren have become such high-profile targets for murderous Islamist militants?

A 19-year-old British woman, one of a group of medical students to join the Islamic State has told her family she wants to go home

According to a UN report, more than 25,000 foreign fighters have traveled to join militant groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State

THE war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is about to observe its first anniversary.

Bangladeshi labourer Helal Uddin, who was kidnapped by militants in Libya on March 6, talks with his family in Jamalpur over phone and expects release in 2/3 days.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali says he does not know anything about the two Bangladeshi nationals who have allegedly been abducted in Libya by a militant group linked to the ISIS

ANOWAR Hossain and Helal Uddin are two Bangladeshis among other foreign nationals who have been taken hostage by the Islamic State or some other militia group in Libya.

Two Bangladeshi nationals have been identified to be among the nine people abducted from an oilfield in Libya on Friday, the Bangladesh embassy has confirmed.

A Bangladeshi national along with eight other foreigners has been taken hostage allegedly by Islamic State from an oil field, south of Sirte in Libya