When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria announced Sunday that it was changing its name and reviving the caliphate, the news lit up the Internet and headlined news reports around the world. But what ...

The New York Times’ latest gaffe is so egregious that some critics feel the paper’s credibility has been permanently torched. The Times published an extensive correction on Friday after acknowledging ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month ...

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. We've been hearing a lot these past few weeks about the extremist Sunni militants ...

Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Islamic State group's "caliphate" to a rump and decimated its fighters in 2016 but the organisation remains a potent threat. The ...

One of The New York Times' star journalists is under fire for not disclosing his ties to the now-discredited podcast series "Caliphate" on his own podcast that tackled the sore subject. Michael ...

Beatrice de Graaf is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea. Ahmet S. Yayla does not work for, consult, own ...

The New York Times (NYT) is facing fresh blowback for how it handled the fallout over falsehoods unearthed in “Caliphate,” the paper’s award-winning, 12-part podcast about the Islamic State. A group ...

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 ...

The New York Times announced the retraction of pivotal episodes of its hit 2018 podcast “Caliphate” just a week before Christmas. It placed editor’s notes bailing on the central character in the ...