Tag: Daesh
Five militants arrested in Karachi
KARACHI: Karachi Police on Monday claimed to have arrested five terrorists, associated with the outlawed Islamic State (IS) group also known as Daesh, during...
Heirs of Sahiwal ‘encounter’ victims get Rs30m cheques, await justice
LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday met the family of the victims of the Sahiwal fake encounter case at Chief Minister's Secretariat and...
ATC to hear plea by Sahiwal killings’ suspects on April 8
A Sahiwal anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday admitted for hearing a petition filed by the suspected CTD personnel in the Sahiwal encounter case, in...
US-backed Kurdish force declares victory over ISIS
--SDF spokesperson says Baghouz is free, military victory against Daesh has been achieved
BEIRUT: US-backed forces in Syria announced on Saturday they have liberated the last...
Daesh deploys car bombs in defence of last enclave
BAGHOUZ: Daesh unleashed car bombs against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) assaulting Baghouz, in a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat in its final...
Sahiwal JIT declares Khalil family innocent
The joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Sahiwal police encounter incident submitted its final report on Thursday, declaring the deceased Khalil and his family members...
Trump bars US-born woman who joined Daesh from returning
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is barring a US-born former Daesh propagandist from returning home, making the highly unusual case that she is not...
Fawad urges Afghan interior minister to avoid trivialising Daesh threat
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Monday urged the newly appointed interior minister in Afghanistan to avoid trivialising the threat posed by...
Pakistan, India under new IS threat ‘Wilayat-e-Hind’: study
--Research says expansion of Daesh in South Asia hints at major shift from Middle East
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, India and Bangladesh are under a new threat...
Emergence of Daesh raises new security challenge for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Islamic State (IS) or Daesh, has raised a new serious security challenge for Pakistan, as reported by a local news outlet.
This was revealed...
Iraq readies for first election since end of Daesh war
BAGHDAD: Iraq is gearing up for key parliamentary elections on Saturday, some five months after declaring victory over the Daesh group.
A lull in violence...
Iraqi F-16 warplanes target Islamic State positions in Syria
BAGHDAD: Iraqi warplanes attacked an Islamic State explosives factory and other positions inside Syria on Thursday, Baghdad’s military said, in a rare air assault...
Pakistan hands over dossier to Afghan embassy on TTP, Daesh hideouts
-- FO says US, Afghan forces not taking action on Pakistani intelligence about terrorists
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday handed over a dossier to the Afghan embassy...
Arrested ISIS member confesses to using technology to brain-wash young girls
KARACHI: A young member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), commonly known as Daesh, has confessed to using mobile applications to...
Daesh social media network being operated from area near Pak-Afghan border:...
KARACHI: The sources inside Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Wednesday stated that social media network of the global terrorist organisation Daesh was being operated from the...
FIA arrests Daesh social-media operative from Karachi
KARACHI: Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) has nabbed social-media operative of the global terrorist organisation, Daesh, from Karachi on Tuesday.
The FIA officials told media that Imran,...
Daesh fighters move to Syria’s Idlib, clash with factions: sources
Daesh fighters battled Syrian insurgents in the northwestern province of Idlib on Saturday, a monitoring group and a rebel commander said, accusing pro-government forces...
