The UN warned on Wednesday that the Daesh (ISIS) terror group continues to pose a persistent threat to international peace and security, stressing the group's ability ...

Rights abuses meted out by Iraqi forces to Daesh prisoners in Mosul are being investigated, officials say. Many videos have ...

Turkish police detained 39 suspected members of the Daesh terrorist group in coordinated raids across Istanbul after ...

August 3 marks the anniversary of the genocidal attack carried out by Daesh in Sinjar, Iraq. On that day, Daesh unleashed prohibited acts against the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority group in Iraq ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Aug 02, 2021, 04:04pm EDT Aug 02, 2021, 04:04pm EDT This article ...

Here’s to the Daesh bags. Western leaders — most recently French President Francois Hollande — have begun using a silly-sounding phonetic term for Islamic militants that apparently makes the madmen ...

If you've wondered why world leaders, including President Obama, have started referring to the Islamic State, aka ISIS, as "Daesh" lately, you're not alone. The fact that these leaders are using the ...

Daesh (pronounced like dash), also stylized as Da'ish, is an acronym derived from Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq wa al-Sham, the Arabic translation for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. However ...