Islamic State

Thousands of people taken captive by the Islamic State group remain missing years after the extremists' territorial defeat.
Reporters Matt Lee and Ayesha Rascoe appeared to take officials by surprise when they did their jobs by asking for evidence to back government claims.
President Joe Biden said a counterterrorism operation in Syria has taken Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi "off the battlefield." Civilians were reportedly killed in the raid.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, allegedly taught women and children how to use firearms, grenades and suicide belts while leading an all-female militant battalion.
Hoda Muthana fled her home in suburban Birmingham in 2014 after becoming radicalized online.
Conservative MP David Amess was murdered earlier this month while greeting constituents in an English town.
Powell's testimony before the U.N. Security Council in 2003 made the case for war against Iraq with false claims of weapons of mass destruction.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 46 people and wounded dozens this week.
The roadside bomb, which the Taliban suspect came from the Islamic State, was the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since the U.S. withdrew forces.
Ayman al-Zawahri, rumored to have died months ago, praised al-Qaida attacks including one back in January. He did not mention the Taliban’s recent takeover of Afghanistan.