Female terrorists are far more involved in Isis than has previously been thought and often escape detection as they play crucial but less visible ‘behind the scenes’ roles, new research has claimed. Despite the figures most commonly associated with the terror organisation being male, thousands of women are the ‘glue holding the organisation together’, researchers at the University of Miami have found. The study ‘Women’s Connectivity in Extreme Networks’ has been published in the journal Science Advances and involved researchers analysing data from 40,000 suspected terrorists.

A team of militants linked with ISIS were paid 600,000 euros to carry out a bombing campaign at 50 locations in Tehran and other big cities in Iran, according to a documentary aired on Iranian state TV on Monday. Officials in predominantly Shi'ite Iran have said in recent weeks that Sunni militants from ISIS are targeting the country. Two weeks ago, Iranian intelligence authorities said they had foiled a large-scale terrorist attack, arresting 10 militants, and had seized about 100 kilograms...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday deemed Iran's presence in Iraq to be "helpful" to American attempts to beat back the threat of ISIS, given their common enemy. The measured praise for a country with which the U.S. has a fraught relationship came at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where the secretary of state was asked to assess whether Iran was "more helpful or more harmful" there. "Look, we have challenges with Iran as everybody knows and we are working on those challenges...

Isis claims responsibility for car bombing in shopping district of Iraqi capital that killed 78, as second bomb kills five

A series of American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The strikes occurred on the outskirts of the Iraqi city in "southern Fallujah," a second U.S. defense official told Fox News. "There was a strike on a convoy of ISIS fighters trying to leave a neighborhood on the outskirts of southern Fallujah that we struck," the official said.

As an array of forces make inroads into Islamic State territory, the jihadis are becoming even harsher to maintain control of a population that is increasingly hostile to them.

As predicted, the FBI is revealed to have approached Orlando shooting suspect Omar Mateen in 2013 with informants posing as terrorists in an attempt to “lure” him into participating in a terrorist attack.

A CNN crew witnesses gunfire exchanged between Iraqi forces and the small pockets of ISIS militants still occupying the besieged city of Falluja.

John Brennan told the Senate intelligence committee Thursday that CIA has no evidence of a connection between Omar Mateen and the Islamic State

There are 151 Canadians about to get an uncomfortable phone call from police. It may go something like this: "It's probably nothing, but … your name appears to be on an ISIS kill list." Imagine getting that call. Imagine being the constable assigned to make it. CBC has obtained a copy of the list, which contains the names, and email and physical addresses of some 8,300 people around the globe. It's hard to tell what unites them.

A hacker from Kosovo supplied data pertaining to more than 1,300 US military and government personnel to ISIS, endangering their lives. He has pleaded guilty and faces up to 25 years in prison.

'While the tyrants shut the immigration door in your faces, open in their faces the door of jihad.'

A Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and killed his partner, who also worked for the police, in an attack the government denounced as "an abject act of terrorism". Larossi Abballa, 25, also took the couple's three-year-old son hostage in Monday night's attack. The boy was found unharmed but in a state of shock after police commandos stormed the house and killed the attacker.

In March, a senior ISIS commander was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his vehicle to oblivion. The killing of Abu Hayjaa al-Tunsi, a Tunisian jihadi, sparked a panicked hunt within the group's ranks for spies who could have tipped off the U.S-led coalition about his closely guarded movements. By the time it was over, the group would kill 38 of its own members on suspicion of acting as informants.

Tens of thousands of lives – and the future of Iraq – are at stake as the country’s forces and Shia militias fight Isis for the city

The militant was caught on video 18 months ago bidding for captured Yazidi girls on what was sickeningly billed as 'slave market day' in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Not smiling now.

At the closest point they can reach to the Islamic State heartlands, the Kurdish Peshmerga can almost feel their enemy. Most days Isis fighters fire mortars or bullets at their frontline, 10 miles south of Sinjar, sometimes crawling through long grass for hours until they are close enough to shoot. Several miles further south, some of Isis’s most senior leaders regularly gather in the grey concrete villages of the terror group’s northern vanguard, which for more than a decade had been the safest...

ISIS has executed 25 people in Mosul, northern Iraq, by lowering them in a vat of nitric acid, according to several local news reports. The men had been accused of spying on ISIS on behalf of Iraqi government security forces. According to witnesses, the 25 alleged 'spies' had been tied together with a rope and lowered in a large basin containing nitric acid until their organs dissolved.

The Turkish government has been accused of a mass cover-up by opposition MP Erem Erdem, who passed the transcriptions from Ankara security services on to the media. They detail conversations between known ISIS terrorist Ilhami Bali and several associates inside Turkey, as they discuss the exact number of people they have smuggled into the country. In one angry exchange, Bali - who is suspected of orchestrating several terrorists attacks in Turkey - threatens...

The Obama administration’s diplomatic point man in the international fight against Islamic State has said the extremists have been losing control over territory, adding: “This perverse caliphate is shrinking.” In Iraq, however, Isis launched a coordinated assault on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others, Iraqi officials said.