Topic: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says in his upcoming memoir that President Donald Trump once asked him if the U.S. could shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs and dangerous cartels, according to reports.

The former Kansas teacher who faces charges for leading an all-female ISIS battalion has been denied bail while awaiting trial.

U.S. forces conducted a counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria late Wednesday that killed the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday.

A former Kansas teacher has been arrested and charged with federal crimes for allegedly organizing and leading the all-female ISIS battalion Khatiba Nusaybah, the Justice Department announced Saturday.

A Saudi-born Canadian man has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to charges he fought for the Islamic State and played a key role in the militant group's recruitment efforts.

On Oct. 31, 1941, more than a month before the United States entered World War II, a German submarine torpedoed and sunk a U.S. destroyer, the USS Reuben James.

Iraqi intelligence agents captured the financial chief of the ISIS terrorist organization, Iraq's prime minister announced Monday.

The decades-long conflict in Afghanistan was always far more than a simple case of the Taliban versus the Afghan government, or a U.S.-led "war on terror."

On April 8, 1990, Ryan White, who put the face of a child on AIDS, died of complications from the disease at age 18.

President Donald Trump visited five states in a whirlwind campaign tour that started Sunday and ran until early Monday with just two days left until the 2020 presidential election.