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36 women, children kidnapped by IS last week in Syria’s Sweida:...
BEIRUT: The Islamic State group kidnapped dozens of Druze women and children when it attacked their villages last week in Syria's southern province of...
IS leaves Syria Druze reeling from heaviest losses of war
BEIRUT: The death toll in coordinated Islamic State group attacks in Syria's Sweida neared 250 on Thursday, the Druze-majority province's heaviest loss of life...
Death toll in devastating IS attacks in Syria climbs to 216
BEIRUT: The death toll from coordinated attacks by Islamic State fighters on a usually peaceful southern Syrian city and surrounding countryside has climbed to...
Islamic State kills dozens in south Syria attacks
BEIRUT: Islamic State militants killed dozens of people in a series of attacks on government-held parts of southwestern Syria on Wednesday, including multiple suicide...
American captured in Syria charged in US with supporting Islamic State
WASHINGTON: A Michigan man seized overseas by a US-backed Syrian militia has been charged with providing material support to Islamic State militants, the US...
Islamic State makes comeback in Iraq with switch to guerrilla tactics
BAQUBA, Iraq: Months after Iraq declared victory over Islamic State, its fighters are making a comeback with a scatter-gun campaign of kidnap and killing.
With...
Security forces end attack on Erbil governorate by suspected Islamic State...
ERBIL: Kurdish security forces killed gunmen who had stormed government building in the Kurdish city of Erbil on Monday in an attack suspected of...
Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit record as suicide attacks surge
KABUL: The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan reached a record in the first half of the year, despite last month’s ceasefire, with a...
Four-nation alliance decides to counter growing IS footprint in Afghanistan
Pakistan, Russia, China and Iran agree to jointly counter Islamic State
In an unprecedented development, four key regional military powers have decided to form...
IS seizes village in south Syria: monitor
BEIRUT: An Islamic State group affiliate seized a village in southern Syria overnight from rebels who had agreed to a regime takeover, a Britain-based...
Syria widens assault in southwest, hits IS pocket
AMMAN: The Syrian government widened its offensive to recover the southwest on Wednesday, extending it to an enclave held by Islamic State-affiliated fighters as...
Son of Islamic State leader killed in Syria’s Homs: IS news...
CAIRO: A son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the city of Homs in Syria, the group’s news channel...
Pakistan condemns terrorist attack in Afghanistan
Pakistan has “strongly condemned” the terrorist attack in Afghanistan's city Jalalabad, killing and injuring many innocent civilians on Sunday.
Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal,...
Damascus, IS using civilians as ‘pawns’: UN rights chief
GENEVA: Civilians fleeing attacks on rebel-held towns in southern Syria are being used as "pawns", the UN rights chief said, lamenting reported demands for...
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...
Islamic State relocating to Pak-Afghan border, Iran warns Pakistan
A Pakistani delegation in Iran has been warned by Iranian authorities of the presence of Islamic State (IS) in the border areas of Pakistan...
Taliban, IS battling for control of rich mineral resources in Afghanistan:...
Satellite images reveal extensive mining operations not far from the site of a 2017 US airstrike in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan—an attack most...
