BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The new leader of Islamic State, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security ...

Leadership transitions in any organization can produce uncertainty and invite speculation regarding the organization’s future trajectory. This dynamic is especially the case in clandestine terrorist ...

The question is less about whether terrorism is still a threat and more about how the United States chooses to respond to it.

RIYADH (Reuters) - The creation of an Islamic caliphate, or empire, has long formed part of al Qaeda's world view, and it is a vision that seems to have unsettled Washington. Sign up here. But experts ...

If there were an ex-Pope, if he had a beauteous daughter, if she became secretly engaged to the eldest son of “The Richest Man in the World,” then Catholics would be as excited as Moslems were last ...

Popular historian Bobrick (The Fated Sky: Astrology in History) breathlessly recounts the ornate pageantry of the Islamic caliphate, from its meteoric rise as an empire on three continents, with ...

Young King Farouk of Egypt was today acclaimed as Caliph of Islam during a ceremony attended by some of the highest dignitaries of the Moslem world. Attending the ceremony at which Farouk was thus ...

The religious advisers of popular young King Farouk, not yet 19, have long nursed an ambition to have their monarch designated Caliph of all Islam, spiritual head of all Moslems. That job has been ...

The new leader of Islamic State, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security officials and one ...