Islamic State

“In June 2025, the UN estimated that the Islamic State group had up to 800 fighters in Somalia, more than half of them foreign.”

“Muslim-majority Sokoto was the site of surprise US air strikes on 25 December, which Nigerian authorities said targeted "two major Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist enclaves" in the state's Tangaza district.”

“In late December, the United States launched strikes on what it and the Nigerian government said were militants linked to the Islamic State group in the northwestern Sokoto state.”

“Syria will join the international coalition to combat the Islamic State group, marking a shift in US foreign policy in the Middle East, a senior Trump administration official has confirmed.”

“About 1,600 civilians have been killed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters in Niger since the coup, HRW says, citing figures collected by the conflict monitoring group Acled.”

“Jamila, who asked not to be identified by her last name, is one of thousands of women from the Yazidi minority religion who were kidnapped and raped by IS after it mounted an assault on the Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq in August 2014.”

“Islamic State overran large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014 only to be beaten back in 2017.”

“He has remained in his city since early in the war even as its rulers shifted from rebels opposed to president Bashar al Assad's rule to Islamic State militants and then to Kurdish fighters.”

“The book recounts how Islamic State crossed the border into their mountainside village in northern Iraq, killing the men, recruiting the boys, and taking women and girls to slave markets in Raqqa.”