Topic: Islamic State

A Brooklyn man admitted in a Manhattan federal courtroom that he distributed bomb-making instructions online and encouraged supporters of the Islamic State to commit terrorist attacks in New York City.

Turkey, a NATO member, remains a regional transit hub for Islamic State terrorists, a Defense Department Inspector General's report says.

Nearly 30 people were killed and 50 injured when militants attacked a prison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, leading to an 18-hour battle. Hundreds of prisoners escaped, but most were recaptured.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, fighting the Islamic State and other militias in Syria, was singled out for praise on Friday by the U.S. Defense Department.

The Pentagon on Thursday identified a U.S. paratrooper who died earlier this week in a vehicle rollover in Syria.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari blamed Boko Haram for killing five aid workers who were abducted in Nigeria's Borno State last month.

A U.S. airstrike in northern Somalia killed seven Islamic State members, U.S. African Command said on Wednesday.

At least seven people were killed and dozens more were injured Sunday when a car bomb exploded in northern Syria near the Turkish border, a British-based monitor of the nearly decade-old civil war said.

An appeals court ruled Thursday that a woman who left Britain for Syria five years ago to marry an Islamic State fighter can return to fight for her citizenship in her native country.

The Taliban led a wave of attacks Sunday and Monday through northern Afghanistan killing dozens of security force members in the latest sign of the breakdown in peace talks.

China and Russia on Friday vetoed a U.N. Security Council measure to provide cross-border aid to Syria for the next six months.

The Pentagon on Wednesday said a U.S. soldier serving in Jordan has died in a non-combat-related incident.

A U.S. Army private has confessed to planning a terrorist attack with a satanic neo-Nazi group to kill as many members of his unit while deployed overseas, prosecutors said.

The Islamic State's newly anointed spokesman, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, issued a statement last month that took terrorist-watchers by surprise.

At least 80 people were killed and others were kidnapped when suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village in Nigeria.