US-led forces invaded Iraq and toppled former leader Saddam Hussein in 2003, withdrawing in 2011 but then returning in 2014 to fight Islamic State as part of an international coalition.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) warned ISIS "still poses a great danger to our regions and the world.”
When we look at the attack on Russia and Israel, the similarities are clear when it comes to the methods of the terrorists and the victims
Niger is one of several West African countries battling an Islamist insurgency that has spread outwards from Mali over the past 12 years, killing thousands and uprooting millions of people.
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar calls for subdued Purim celebrations following ISIS terrorist attack in Moscow.
Putin vowed to punish those behind concert massacre.
The defendant and her husband, were both found liable for the girl’s death when evidence showed that the girl had been chained to a tree by the husband and left to die in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
The alleged attack had been planned in response to Quran burnings in Sweden.
The embassy, which has repeatedly urged all US citizens to leave Russia immediately, gave no further details about the nature of the threat.
Russia's FSB said that the members of the organization had been planning "to commit a terrorist act against one of the Jewish religious institutions in Moscow."