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Byline: Adam Goldman, Eric Schmitt and Hamed Aleaziz The men were arrested after the F.B.I. quietly began an investigation that stretched across the country and involved scores of bureau personnel. [...]

Byline: Neil MacFarquhar and Eric Schmitt Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people. The mother [...]

Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people. The mother of one of the suspects in [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt The Islamic State in Khorasan is active in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran and has set its sights on Europe and beyond. Five years ago this month, an [...]

The Islamic State affiliate has been a major threat to the Taliban’s ability to govern Afghanistan. The group that has been linked to the deadly terrorist attack in Moscow on [...]

Byline: Ben Hubbard, Eric Schmitt and Matthew Rosenberg The U.S. and its allies waged war for 20 years to try to defeat terrorists in Afghanistan. A double-suicide bombing demonstrated that [...]

An Islamic State affiliate that is a sworn enemy of both the Taliban and the United States threatens a large-scale attack against the mission at the airport. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

President Biden's national security adviser warned of mounting but unspecified terrorist risks to the U.S. mission to evacuate thousands of Americans and Afghan allies. WASHINGTON -- President Biden's national security [...]

If confirmed, the death of Abdelmalek Droukdal would be a blow to one of the terrorist group's most successful and resilient affiliates. The French military said on Friday that its [...]

If confirmed, the death of Abdelmalek Droukdal would be a blow to one of the terrorist group's most successful and resilient affiliates. The French military said on Friday that its [...]

The designation of the Russian Imperial Movement reflects growing concerns among U.S. officials about violent white supremacists with transnational links. WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is expected to announce on [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt and Abdi Latif Dahir Several ominous signs indicate that the Qaeda affiliate, the Shabab, is seeking to expand its lethal mayhem well beyond its home base, and [...]

Lora Shiao will be the new acting director for the National Counterterrorism Center amid a broader reshuffling of top intelligences aides and expected personnel cutbacks WASHINGTON -- Lora Shiao, a [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt The death of Qassim al-Rimi is part of a string of setbacks that have damaged the group's ability to carry out operations against the West. WASHINGTON - [...]

The death of Qassim al-Rimi is part of a string of setbacks that have damaged the group's ability to carry out operations against the West. WASHINGTON -- For more than [...]

American officials believe they may have killed the terrorist leader, Qassim al-Rimi, but have not confirmed his death. The United States has carried out an airstrike against the leader of [...]

Intelligence that foreshadowed the Iranian attack set off a tense, often confusing afternoon in the White House Situation Room. WASHINGTON -- The alert came to the White House shortly after [...]

A service member and two contractors became the first American military-related deaths in Africa since 2018. WASHINGTON -- A United States service member and two American military contractors died on [...]

Authorities were trying to determine whether the shooting that killed three and injured eight others was an act of terrorism. PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A member of the Saudi Air Force [...]

President Trump offered a vivid account of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ''crying and screaming'' in the final minutes before his death. The only problem: No one else knows [...]

Trump's decision to pull troops from Syria upended a 5-year alliance and threw the plans against al-Baghdadi into disarray. QAMISHLI, Syria -- When the international manhunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, [...]

Officials cautioned that the intelligence was unlikely to generate leads for quick follow-up strikes on the Islamic State. WASHINGTON -- Delta Force commandos took two Islamic State fighters as prisoners [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump knew the Central Intelligence Agency and Special Operations commandos were zeroing in on the location for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, when he ordered [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump announced on Sunday that a daring American commando raid in Syria this weekend culminated in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic [...]

WASHINGTON -- United States Special Operations commandos carried out a risky raid in northwestern Syria on Saturday against a senior terrorist leader there, two senior administration officials said late Saturday. [...]

Byline: David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Schmitt The troop withdrawal ends American operations against the terrorist group conducted jointly with a Kurdish-led militia. American forces and their Kurdish-led partners in [...]

The troop withdrawal ends American operations against the terrorist group conducted jointly with a Kurdish-led militia. American forces and their Kurdish-led partners in Syria had been conducting as many as [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday that President Trump had given his endorsement for a Turkish military [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON - American counterterrorism officials are voicing increased alarm about a Qaeda affiliate in Syria that they say is plotting attacks against the West by exploiting the [...]

WASHINGTON -- American counterterrorism officials are voicing increased alarm about a Qaeda affiliate in Syria that they say is plotting attacks against the West by exploiting the chaotic security situation [...]

WASHINGTON -- The United States military carried out an airstrike against Islamic State fighters in southern Libya on Thursday in a reminder of the terrorist group's continuing operations and resilience [...]

WASHINGTON -- Five months after American-backed forces ousted the Islamic State from its last shard of territory in Syria, the terrorist group is gathering new strength, conducting guerrilla attacks across [...]

RMEILAN, Syria -- Dressed in camouflage and sipping tea, the Syrian commander who emerged as America's closest ally in the battle that defeated Islamic State looked to an unsettling future. [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Edward Wong and Charlie Savage WASHINGTON - President Trump was only days into office in January 2017 when he first began considering a move with [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump was only days into office in January 2017 when he first began considering a move with the potential to ignite a firestorm in the Middle East: [...]

WASHINGTON -- The White House is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump said on Monday that he was designating a powerful arm of the Iranian military as a foreign terrorist organization, the first time that the United States [...]

WASHINGTON -- The fight to expel the Islamic State from its last shard of territory in Syria may be over. But the United States and its partners still face significant [...]

TUNIS, Tunisia -- Two years ago, American Marines battled Al Qaeda militants in western Tunisia along the border with Algeria. A Marine and a Tunisian soldier were wounded and two [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw American troops from northern Syria provoked widespread fears over a future resurgence of the Islamic State. But it may yet have a [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- As accusations of human rights violations pile up in Cameroon's two-front battle against secessionists and Islamist extremists, the United States has decided to scale back its military [...]

Byline: ERIC SCHMITT and SAEED AL-BATATI MANAMA, Bahrain -- The United States has tripled the number of airstrikes this year against Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, one of the deadliest [...]

The article reports on the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, senior leader and tactician of the militant group Hamas, in Beirut, Lebanon that is viewed to weaken the organization and impact its military rebuilding efforts. It suggests the internationalization of Israel's war against Hamas and the limited operation of Hamas in Lebanon. It considers the agility of Hamas and the hierarchy within the group, as well as the support of Turkey and Iran on Hamas.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Three years ago, a black-clad cleric named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended a mosque pulpit in the Iraqi city of Mosul and addressed the world as leader of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Islamic State has carried out nearly 1,500 attacks in 16 cities across Iraq and Syria after they were declared freed from the militants' control in recent months, [...]

Byline: ADAM GOLDMAN, MATT APUZZO and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is considering what to do about a Qaeda suspect being held in Yemen, a decision that presents [...]

Byline: ERIC SCHMITT ABOARD A JOINT STARS SURVEILLANCE PLANE, Over Northern Iraq -- Flying at 30,000 feet, the powerful radar aboard this Air Force jet peered deep into Syrian territory, [...]

Byline: HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, condemned by the Obama administration and much of the West for waging a brutal war of suppression [...]

Byline: ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is sending dozens of additional intelligence analysts to Iraq to pore over a trove of information that is expected to be recovered in [...]

Byline: ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- In just the past few days, the Islamic State extremist group's evolving brand of terrorism has revealed its deadly, shifting faces. In Istanbul last week, [...]