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As two Islamic State militants faced a judge in Virginia last month, Diane Foley listened from home through a muffled phone connection and strained to make out the voices of the men prosecutors say kidnapped her son before he was murdered. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh stand accused of belonging to an ISIS cell dubbed “the Beatles,” an incongruously…

An Oregon man was indicted after authorities said he supported the Islamic State group by distributing articles on how to kill and maim with a knife and encouraging readers to carry out attacks

Two alleged ISIS members were charged with torturing and beheading Westerners, including New Hampshire journalist James Foley. His mother reacted to the development that comes six years after Foley’s death.

A man convicted of leading a plot to behead blogger Pamela Geller on behalf of the Islamic State group will serve even longer behind bars after he was sentenced for a second time Monday and ordered to 30 years in prison. David Daoud Wright was originally sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2017 but was ordered to be sentenced…

A man from Everett who prosecutors say was developing an ISIS cell in Massachusetts was re-sentenced Monday in federal court and will spend 30 years in prison.

It’s been a hard fought battle for Diane Foley, mother of beheaded New Hampshire conflict journalist James Foley. But eight years after her son was captured by ISIS terrorists in Syria, there was a step Tuesday in the right direction.

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will retire in February 2019. Mattis submitted a letter to Trump saying the president deserves a secretary of defense with views more close to his on things like alliances and building an international order. The move comes after Trump abruptly announced that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria,…

The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages.

A Brooklyn man was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS and distributing bomb-making instructions, according to federal prosecutors.

President Donald Trump has been speaking a lot about the military, law and order.

A recent wave of deadly attacks in Iraq and Syria claimed by the Islamic State group shows that the extremist group defeated last year is taking advantage of governments absorbed by the economic and health impacts of the novel coronavirus to reassert itself

Two U.S. Marines were killed in Iraq during a mission to clear out an extensive mountain cave complex where ISIS fighters were hiding and living, three military officials said Monday.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East

U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturday: What is our future here? What are the goals we need to think about? Gen. Frank McKenzie, the U.S Middle East commander, knows the future is not certain. But at least for today, he said, “this is an area where...

Documents compiled by a U.S.-based Syrian rights group reveal how Islamic State militants used one of their most powerful bureaucratic bodies to regulate daily life and impose and execute penalties.

The new evidence could be used in international prosecutions.

Pakistani officials raised the death toll from a mosque bombing in the country’s southwest to 15 people on Saturday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province, during the evening prayers on Friday.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Monday honored Conan, a military canine who took part in the raid that killed ISIS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, during an event at the White House.

Military leaders hoping to keep the Secretary of the Navy from quitting lobbied President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One to stop intervening in the case of a Navy SEAL accused of murder, five current and one former military and defense officials told NBC News. On Thursday Trump waded once again into the case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher,...

NBC 7’s military reporter Bridget Naso was there when Chief Eddie Gallagher walked out of court a free man.

European and other members of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group must take back and prosecute their nationals detained in Iraq and Syria to help keep ISIS from regaining territory, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. Pompeo told foreign ministers and senior officials from some 30 coalition members that it’s imperative that they hold thousands of detained...