The country of Tajikistan is known as a hotbed of ISIS recruitment, AFP via Getty Images Over the previous 14 years there were just 26 Tajik nationals crossing the border.

He said many ISIS members are among the approximately 57,000 people held in the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria, and noted that the situation has become a growing concern for the U.S. and ...

An ISIS recruiter who was arrested by federal agents at JFK Airport attempting to flee the country in November 2016 was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison last week. Sinmyah Amera Ceasar ...

The Islamic State is believed to be behind a deadly suicide bombing that happened at a Greek Orthodox church in Syria on Sunday.

The Biden administration is scrambling to stop migrants from an ISIS recruiting hotbed from being released into the US after they cross the border — despite hundreds already pouring in so far ...

ISIS-K leader behind Kabul airport attack killed by Taliban, U.S. says 04:40. The Taliban's goal had, for more than two decades, been to topple Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government and to reimpose ...

A Dictator’s Iron Rule. The country was embroiled in a brutal civil war from 1992 to 1997. President Emomali Rahmon, 71, has ruled Tajikistan since 1994 and extended his term for life.

Everyone seems to agree that ISIS is digging up and selling archaeological artifacts to make money. But no one seems to agree on how much money it’s actually making from its illegal antiquities trade: ...

In 2021, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for 13 attacks against the Hazaras (an ethnic Shia group native to and primarily residing in the Hazaristan region in central Afghanistan), in addition to three ...

The ISIS-K threat has also moved swiftly closer to Europe, as a wide wave of arrests in Turkey has exposed. An 87-page indictment, relating to the detention of 18 ISIS-K suspects, many of them ...

More recently, ISIS-K’s attacks have grown bolder and stretched beyond Afghanistan’s borders: The group killed at least 43 people in an assault on a political rally in northern Pakistan in July.