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Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON -- The younger of the two brothers who killed 12 people in Paris last week most likely used his older brother's passport in [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ALAN COWELL PARIS -- Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen formally claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the deadly assault a week ago at the French satirical newspaper [...]

WASHINGTON -- The younger of the two brothers who killed 12 people in Paris last week most likely used his older brother's passport in 2011 to travel to Yemen, where [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and ANDREW HIGGINS PARIS -- Amedy Coulibaly, one of three gunmen killed by the police on Friday after carrying out France's worst terrorist attacks in more than [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI PARIS -- Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunman responsible for the terrorist attacks in France last week, produced a video that appeared online on Sunday, two [...]

PARIS -- Amedy Coulibaly, one of three gunmen killed by the police on Friday after carrying out France's worst terrorist attacks in more than half a century, spoke from the [...]

Wednesday's attack on a satirical newspaper in Paris prompted speculation about the involvement of an organized terrorist group, possibly the Islamic State, whose leaders have called for sympathizers to carry [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- Gunfire erupted overnight in Banjul, the capital of the West African nation of Gambia, and residents awoke Tuesday to find government buildings and the main bridge into [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI GAZIANTEP, Turkey -- For a fleeting moment last year, Louai Abo Aljoud, a Syrian journalist, made eye contact with the American hostages being held by the Islamic [...]

Editors' Note: Dec. 18, 2020 An earlier version of this article opened with a detailed description of an encounter in which a Syrian journalist, Louai Abo Aljoud, claimed to have [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDGAZIANTEP, Turkey -- For a fleeting moment last year, Louai Abo Aljoud, a Syrian journalist, made eye contact with the American hostages being held by the Islamic State militant [...]

ISTANBUL -- The French Army said Thursday that it had killed a leader of a terrorist group in the deserts of northern Mali. The announcement, two days after the release [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI ISTANBUL -- Nearly a decade ago, Ayman al- Zawahiri - the man who would go on to become the head of Al Qaeda - wrote a letter [...]

ISTANBUL -- A 50-year-old Frenchman who was snatched from his hotel room in Mali by Al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa and held captive for more than three years was [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI ISTANBUL -- For 18 months, a group of civilians in South Africa worked to accomplish what their government had been unable to do: negotiate the release of [...]

ISTANBUL -- Nearly a decade ago, Ayman al-Zawahiri -- the man who would go on to become the head of Al Qaeda -- wrote a letter to his deputy in [...]

ISTANBUL -- For 18 months, a group of civilians in South Africa worked to accomplish what their government had been unable to do: negotiate the release of a South African [...]

SANA, Yemen -- Seething over an attempt last month by United States commandos to free an American hostage, Al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate has threatened to kill him by the end [...]

An Egyptian militant group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State extremist organization claimed responsibility on Sunday for the killing of an American petroleum expert, according to the SITE [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI GAZIANTEP, Turkey -- The Islamic State released a video on Sunday showing a black-clad executioner standing over the severed head of what the group claims is an [...]

GAZIANTEP, Turkey -- Islamic State militants released a chilling videotape on Sunday showing they had beheaded a fifth Western hostage, an American aid worker the group had threatened to kill [...]

Byline: HERVÉ TAOKO, ALAN COWELL and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- After violent protests in which demonstrators set fire to Parliament and surged through the streets in a wave [...]

The New York Times published a detailed account earlier this week of the horror 23 Western hostages faced when they were held by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS [...]

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- The government of Burkina Faso collapsed on Thursday as demonstrators protesting President Blaise Compaor's plans to stay in office after 27 years surged through the streets [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI The hostages were taken out of their cell one by one. In a private room, their captors asked each of them three intimate questions, a standard technique [...]

The hostages were taken out of their cell one by one. In a private room, their captors asked each of them three intimate questions, a standard technique used to obtain [...]

Moved by the plight of the Syrian people, a middle-aged taxi driver from Manchester, England, stood on street corners to raise money for an ambulance. Last December, the man, Alan [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI In a sign of the growing influence of the extremist group known as the Islamic State, fighters aligned with the organization have beheaded a French tourist in [...]

Byline: MARK LANDLER, ANNE BARNARD and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI UNITED NATIONS -- President Obama laid out a forceful new blueprint on Wednesday for deeper American engagement in the Middle East, telling [...]

In a sign of the growing influence of the extremist group known as the Islamic State, fighters aligned with the organization beheaded a French tourist in Algeria and released a [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI A jihadist group in North Africa aligned with the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Frenchman in a mountainous region of Algeria, hours [...]

As American airstrikes began raining down on the de facto capital of the Islamic State in Syria on Monday night, the militant group issued a new installment in its ''lecture [...]

A jihadist group in North Africa aligned with the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Frenchman in a mountainous region of Algeria, hours after the Islamic State [...]

The bodies of eight officials and journalists who went to a remote village in Guinea to dispel rumors about the deadly Ebola outbreak gripping the region were discovered after a [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI The email appeared in Michael Foley's inbox a year after his brother James disappeared on a reporting trip in northern Syria. It made clear that the people [...]

The email appeared in Michael Foley's inbox a year after his brother James disappeared on a reporting trip in northern Syria. It made clear that the people holding him wanted [...]

LONDON -- Following an emergency meeting on Sunday with Britain's top security and military officials to form a response to the beheading of a British aid worker by the Islamic [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe Islamic State in Iraq and Syria released a video Saturday of the third beheading of a foreign hostage, a British aid worker. The execution was a clear message [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI The mother of an American hostage being held by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has released an emotional video appeal to his captors. Shirley Sotloff, [...]

The mother of an American hostage being held by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria released an emotional video appeal to his captors on Wednesday. Shirley Sotloff, the mother [...]

An American writer and freelance journalist held captive for nearly two years by Al Qaeda's official branch in Syria returned to the United States late Tuesday after the government of [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Held for nearly two years in a prison run by an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Syria, an American freelance writer has been unexpectedly freed, following extensive [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and SCOTT SHANE An American journalist held captive for nearly two years by Al Qaeda's official branch in Syria has been freed, according to a report on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHeld for nearly two years in a prison run by an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Syria, an American freelance writer was unexpectedly freed on Sunday, following extensive mediation [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Kneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life this week at the hands of the Islamic State in [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has posted a video that it said showed the beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who was kidnapped in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDKneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life this week at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and [...]

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posted a video on Tuesday that it said showed the beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who was kidnapped in Syria nearly [...]

Byline: RUKMINI CALLIMACHI BAMAKO, Mali -- The cash filled three suitcases: 5 million euros. The German official charged with delivering this precious cargo arrived here aboard a nearly empty military [...]

BAMAKO, Mali -- The cash filled three suitcases: 5 million euros. The German official charged with delivering this cargo arrived here aboard a nearly empty military plane and was whisked [...]