Who are the Syrian rebels who have taken Damascus?
HTS founder Abu Muhammad al-Jolani participated in Iraqi insurgency against US as member of group that later became Islamic State
Islamic State
Syria: Rebel and government forces continue battles near city of Hama
Country’s long-running civil war has killed hundreds of thousands since erupting in 2011 in rebellion against president Bashar al-Assad
Dutch woman facing charges of crimes against humanity for enslaving two Yazidi women
Hasna Aarab, a 33-year-old mother of three from Hengelo, was married to a Moroccan Islamic State fighter in 2014 and lived in the Syrian city of Raqaa
‘I felt that life has no value and it’s better to die’: Yazidi woman on experience of being sexually enslaved by Isis
Shireen Khero, a Yazidi from Iraq, was abducted by Isis in 2014 but luckily escaped three years later. She is in Ireland to mark the 10th anniversary of Isis atrocities against the Yazidi community
Islamic State claims responsibility for mass stabbing in Germany as police arrest two suspects
Eight injured, five of them seriously, police say, as investigators look into terror motive
Taylor Swift concert plot leads to warnings of new generation of teenage Islamist terrorists
Islamic State is using social media apps such as TikTok to reassert its influence, say experts
Taylor Swift’s Vienna concerts cancelled after police foil planned terror attack
Vienna shows to see increased security and ‘antiterrorism measures’ after chemical substance found in home of one of the detained
Islamic State killed nearly 4,100 in Syria since collapse of caliphate in 2019 – report
Ongoing operations show movement’s territorial defeat was only ‘symbolic’, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights report
Lisa Smith to file submissions in her appeal against conviction for Isis membership
Former soldier first person to be convicted in Irish court of an Islamic terrorist offence committed abroad
Russian authorities arrest another suspect in connection with concert hall attack that killed 144
Twelve people have been arrested in the case, including four who allegedly carried out the attack
Islamic State terror group draws half its recruits from tiny Tajikistan
Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people
Kremlin denies its spies are behind US ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases
Iran warned ally Moscow of terror threat days before concert hall massacre, report says
Taliban’s return has made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis
Analysts say Isis-K — a group blamed for the recent Moscow concert hall attack — gained strength after the US withdrawal
Moscow attack survivor: four minutes are ‘a whole lifetime’
With a bullet in his back, Dmitry Saraev made it out of Crocus City Hall alive
More deadly shelling hits Kharkiv as Ukraine and Russia trade cross-border strikes
Moscow repeats unsubstantiated claim of Ukrainian and western role in terror attack on concert hall
Moscow attack: Eighth suspect appears in court as concerns raised about potential torture
Some 139 people killed and 182 injured in concert hall assault, which Islamic State has claimed responsibility for
Islamic State group affiliate linked to Moscow attack harbours global ambitions
Islamic State in Khorasan, an Afghanistan entity, is also active in Pakistan and Iran and has set sights on Europe and beyond
Four appear in court over Moscow attack as Kremlin tries to link massacre to Ukraine
Death toll from attack at Crocus City Hall rises to 137 as rescue continue to search through ruins
The Irish Times view on the Moscow attack: Putin tries to shift the blame
The attempt is a handy deflection of hard questions about the lack of preparedness of his security services
Ukraine and allies reject Russian claim of involvement in Moscow terror attack
Zelenskiy lambasts ‘Putin and other scoundrels’ for trying to blame country for attack which has been claimed by Islamic State
Putin’s vast security apparatus focused on critics of Kremlin and its war in Ukraine
Russia now prosecutes more people for ‘extremism’ and ‘justifying terrorism’ than at any time since the rule of Josef Stalin
‘Nothing can ever justify such horrific violence’: World leaders react to Moscow attack
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says nothing justifies the attack on innocent civilians
What is Isis-K and why did it attack a Moscow theatre?
Islamic State Khorasan emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014 and has recently been fixated on Russia
Seven years after liberation, Mosul in Iraq is bustling but struggles to move on from wounds of the past
The economic fallout from the war with Islamic State is still felt in northern Iraq - and women are most likely to be affected
American Mother: The many questions behind James Foley’s killing
Colum McCann and Diane Foley tell the story of her son’s kidnapping by Islamic State
Eight years after James Foley’s murder by Isis, his mother sat down with his captor. Why?
James Foley’s brutal murder in 2014 was seen around the world. His mother Diane’s book documents the family’s struggle
Stripping an Islamist terrorist of his Irish citizenship
In the News podcast: Jailed in the US, Algerian-born Ali Charaf Damache hopes to return to Ireland
Netherlands raises terror threat level, with attack deemed ‘a realistic possibility’
National counterterrorism co-ordinator warns that al-Qaeda and Islamic State are using the Gaza conflict as a ‘call to action’
Genocide talk in Netherlands cancelled over threats
Yazidi survivor and Jewish speaker were to give an ‘eye witness’ talk based on them surviving two separate genocides
Woman jailed for Isis membership later worked for Dutch refugee council
Voluntary role included access to personal and legal files despite previous conviction
Italian authorities arrest two suspected Islamic State recruiters
Milan acts as security fears across Europe rise after gunman in Brussels claims to be member of jihadist group
Brussels gunman who killed two Swedes shot dead by police
Attack prompts Swedish PM to call for increased security and stricter border controls across Europe
Blast kills 52 at celebration rally in southwest Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban distance themselves from attack as those responsible yet to come forward
SDF ‘ends military operations’ against Arab tribal militias in eastern Syria
US warned SDF commanders and Arab tribal leaders that fighting in Deir al-Zor risked enabling Islamic State to regain strength
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