Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. I just pledged allegiance to the Caliphate. This may sound like a radical statement, one to induce a reaction of anxiety, ...

At this crucial point in the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, as it hemorrhages territory across Syria and Iraq, the latest analytical fad in the study of this movement may be leading ...

In order to understand what is unfolding today, we need to review the Islamic State’s past transitions, tease out the logic that informs how new leaders are chosen, and discover what practices it ...

In a new speech released earlier today, the Islamic State’s official spokesman announced that the group’s leader, or so-called caliph, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, is dead. He also revealed ...

Supporters of the Islamic State march in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014, the year the militant group declared a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press) Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project ...

The Islamic State is the second of the two caliphates the Sunni Arabs have declared following the abolition of the Ottoman Empire in 1924. Sharif Hussein bin Ali of Mecca, King of present-day Saudi ...

PLATTSBURGH — When the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham proclaimed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to be caliph of all Muslims and the prince of believers, it recalled early Islam for some Muslims. Caliph, in ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan’s Taliban have rejected Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s claim to be the global leader of all Muslims, the movement said in a statement seen ...