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IS chief Baghdadi appears on video for first time in five...
The elusive chief of the militant Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has appeared for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released on Monday...
New battle looms for Islamic State’s last Syria enclave
DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE: U.S-backed fighters will resume their assault on Islamic State’s last, small patch of ground in eastern Syria if no more civilians...
Syria force launches assault on last IS redoubt
SYRIA: Kurdish-led forces on Friday launched a final assault against diehard militant fighters clinging to the last sliver of their “caliphate” in eastern Syria.
The US-backed...
US-backed Syria force announces final push against IS
DAMASCUS: The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said on Saturday it had begun the “final battle” to oust the militant Islamic State group from the...
Coalition strikes kill 42 in IS Syria
DAMASCUS: Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of the militant Islamic State (IS) group's last holdout in...
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...
Top US envoy in fight against IS group resigns
WASHINGTON: Brett McGurk, the special US envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned, a State Department official said Saturday.
His resignation,...
Pakistani-American woman pleads guilty to bitcoin scheme helping IS
A Pakistani-born American woman has acknowledged her role in defrauding numerous financial institutions in a bitcoin scheme to help the militant Islamic State (IS)...
Nabbed ‘IS men’ allegedly sent funds to Afghanistan: report
Law enforcers who arrested three men for their alleged connection with the militant Islamic State group found that the accused had generated funds for...
IS reverting to insurgency tactics after losing caliphate
BEIRUT: After being nearly defeated on the battlefields of its would-be caliphate, the Islamic State group has reverted to what it was before its...
Pakistani terror suspect refused entry into Philippines
MANILA: A Pakistan man suspected of working for the Islamic State (IS) group has been barred from entering the Philippines, the Philippines Bureau of...
1100 civilians killed in fight against IS in Iraq, Syria: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in...
US-backed group in last push to defeat IS in northeast Syria
BEIRUT: A US-backed Syrian fighting force said Tuesday it has begun the final stage of its campaign to clear Islamic State group militants from...
IS ambush kills 21 regime fighters in southern Syria
BEIRUT: An ambush by the Islamic State jihadist group has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria's southern province of Sweida, a Britain-based war monitor...
Four security members, at least three militants, killed in Jordan shoot...
AMMAN: Security forces pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the wreckage of a building in a central Jordanian city on Sunday following...
Amnesty possible for Islamic State fighters surrendering in north Afghanistan
MAZAR-E-SHARIF: Islamic State fighters who surrendered to Afghan forces this week in the northern province of Jawzjan may be granted amnesty despite accusations of...
Taliban says defeats Islamic State fighters in north Afghanistan
MAZAR-E-SHARIF: More than 150 Islamic State fighters surrendered to Afghan security forces in the northwestern province of Jawzjan after they were defeated and driven...
