Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to be ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf protested the national anthem in the NBA, sparking a backlash that reshaped his career and life forever.

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The suspect who killed 15 and injured 35 in a terrorist attack in New Orleans on Wednesday was carrying an ISIS flag. But ...

and some of the offshoot armed groups and so-called lone wolves that have killed under the Islamic State flag. The Islamic State also is known as both IS and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and ...

He had an Islamic State flag in his truck, the F.B.I. said. The terrorist group, also known as ISIS, has left a brutal legacy of death and destruction across the world. Though the group no longer ...

Shamsud-Din Jabbar The FBI confirmed that Jabbar was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck, and authorities have said he was dressed in military gear. The FBI said they also found weapons and a ...

An Army veteran who was “hell-bent” on killing as many people as possible drove a rented pickup truck around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on ...

United States flags are at half-staff across the country in remembrance of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100. Carter, the 39th president, was the longest-living commander ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Islamic extremists killed a Christian father of three children who had fled his home in eastern Uganda due to death threats from Muslim relatives, sources said. James Mukenye Habiibu, ...

The directive effectively prohibits the use of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbols ... the Islamic State (ISIS). Rudaw English research has concluded that only the new flag of Syria as ...