The Islamic caliphates had a long and glorious run, but in the 21st century, they seemed consigned to history. Simply put, a caliphate is an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political ...

The Sunni extremist group currently wreaking havoc across Syria and Iraq announced it has established an Islamic caliphate across the two countries. Here's what you need to know. A caliphate is an ...

At first, “Caliphate” was a triumph for the New York Times. The 10-part podcast series following terrorism correspondent Rukmini Callimachi as she revealed the dark nature of the Islamic State and the ...

The caliphate has been revived — again. But unlike in previous instances over the past several decades when jihadi groups made claims to states or “emirates,” the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...

Discover the vast expanse of the Umayyad Caliphate in this captivating journey through history. Learn how this powerful empire stretched from the edges of the Atlantic Ocean to the heart of Asia. This ...

Advertisements and registration links were removed from the Hizb ut Tahrir Canada website and social media, but new ones have since been published. A radical Islamic group's Canadian conference for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants, routed from one urban stronghold after another in Syria, have recently been moving deeper ...

On the first night of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria announced it would change its name to, simply, the Islamic State, declaring that the land it had captured in Syria and Iraq ...

The New York Times’ celebrated podcast promised listeners an insider perspective on the brutal, clandestine world of the Islamic State, or ISIS, over 10 wrenching and dramatic episodes: “In the war on ...

History will record that the Islamic State caliphate—a bizarre pseudo-state founded on illusory goals, created by a global horde of jihadis, and enforced with perverted viciousness—survived for three ...

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