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Taliban bombers target Christian worshippers in Lahore

Suicide bombers of TTP’s Jamaatul Ahrar target two churches in Youhanabad area of Lahore, killing at least 16 people and injuring over 70 others

Iraqi troops, militia retake strategic town from IS

Iraqi troops and militias drove Islamic State insurgents out of the town of al-Alam on Tuesday, clearing a final hurdle before a planned assault...

Iraqi man flees to US to escape IS, shot dead on...

Just days after a mentally ill man shot dead a Pakistani in Kentucky for no apparent reason, a Muslim man who had fled the...

IS in Syria has abducted 220 from Christian villages this week

Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive, a monitor...

Fears grow for Syrian Christians abducted by IS

There are fears that more members of an Assyrian Christian community in north-eastern Syria were abducted by Islamic State militants than at first thought. Sources...

Spain breaks up online network recruiting young women for IS

Spain claimed on Tuesday that it had broken up an online network which was allegedly recruiting young women to join Islamic State (IS) militants...

New Zealand military trainers to join anti-IS effort

NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand will send troops to Iraq on a 'behind-the-wire" non-combat mission to boost the local military's ability to fight the Islamic State...

Potential hazard: FO to brief Senate panel on threat posed by...

ISLAMABAD: A bipartisan parliamentary panel will discuss the potential threat posed by Islamic State to Pakistan, amid reports that the ruthless militancy is out to...

Obama defends ‘true peaceful nature of Islam’

United States President Barack Obama defended the “true peaceful nature of Islam” on Wednesday, saying that terrorist groups like Islamic State (IS) promote a “twisted interpretation of religion that is rejected by the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims.”

Afghanistan could become haven for IS, warns ex-CIA officer

Afghanistan is in danger of turning into a sanctuary once again for extremists as the West withdraws troops and shifts its attention elsewhere, a...

IS claims beheading Iraqi security man

The Islamic State group beheaded an Iraqi police officer and a soldier, the latest in a long series of atrocities committed by the militants,...

Massive destruction in Kobane after Kurds drive out IS

Rubble strewn streets, gutted buildings: the bloody battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane has wrought massive destruction. Kurdish forces recaptured the town on...

Obama, new Saudi king expected to talk about IS, Yemen

US president’s decision to travel in person reflects a determination to maintain close ties with the Saudis, who have been part of a US-led bombing campaign against IS group extremists in Syria since last year

Malaysia Airline website hacked by group claiming support for IS

The browser tab for the website said “ISIS will prevail”.

American teen sentenced over support for IS

A US court has jailed a “radicalised” Colorado teenager, intercepted by the FBI when she attempted to join her fiance in the Islamic State...

IS loses ground to Kurds in Kobane

The IS militant group has lost ground in the Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters now control more than 60 per cent...

IS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report

The Islamic State terrorist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian city of...