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Syria army, allies retake Albu Kamal from Islamic State
DEIR EZZOR: Syria’s army and loyalist militiamen Sunday ousted the Islamic State group from its last urban stronghold in the country as regime strikes claimed...
Three militants killed, 74 arrested in Sinai raids, says Egypt
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces killed three suspected militants and arrested 74 others in raids targetting militant groups in North Sinai in recent days, the military...
Iraqi military helicopter crashes, crew killed
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Defence Ministry has said a military helicopter has crashed during a training exercise, killing all seven crew members on board.
The statement said...
IS regains full control of last urban bastion in Syria
BEIRUT: The IS group fully recaptured the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal on Saturday, a monitor said, after a tough fightback for its...
US colluded with IS in Afghanistan, claims Karzai
Former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has accused United States of working with the Islamic State—also known as ISIL, ISIS, IS—in his country.
In an...
Pro-IS militants kill six soldiers in southern Philippines
MANILA: Pro-Islamic State militants killed six soldiers and wounded four others on a southern Philippine island, the military spokesman said on Friday, as the...
New York attacker linked to IS, ‘radicalised domestically’
The pickup truck driver who plowed down a New York cycle path, killing eight people, in the city's worst attack since September 11, was...
IS, Al Qaeda have no links to Islam: imam of Kaaba
Imam-e-Kaaba Dr Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdullah Bin Humaid said that the terrorist organizations like Daesh and Al-Qaeda had no link or concern with Islam...
British man charged with being IS member, Kurdish officials say
A 21-year-old man from Oxford has been charged with being a member of so-called Islamic State, officials from the Kurdish region of Syria have...
Lasting peace in sight in Syria, following IS defeat in Raqa:...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday a transition can soon begin to set conditions for lasting peace in Syria now that the...
Islamic State cleared from Syria’s Raqqa: monitoring group
RAQQA, Syria: US-backed militias have completely taken Syria’s Raqqa from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The fall of Raqqa...
Top Philippine IS militant Hapilon killed: defence chief
Leading Islamist militant Isnilon Hapilon, who is on the United States' list of "most wanted terrorists", has been killed in the battle to reclaim...
Islamic State’s growing influence in Afghanistan threat to Pakistan
PESHAWAR: The militant organisation Islamic State (IS)—also known as Daesh, ISIL, ISIS—has begun armed resistance against the Afghanistan government in almost all 15 districts of...
Three suicide bombers from IS blow themselves near police HQ in...
DAMASCUS: Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters in Syria s capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least two people,...
Trapped in Syria’s Raqa, civilians become human shields for IS
HAWA AI-HAWA (Syria): As fighters from the Islamic State group retreat into a shrinking part of Syria's Raqa, they are dragging along terrified civilians...
IS may continue to exist on ‘dark web’ even after defeat...
Paris: The Islamic State group may soon be defeated in Iraq and Syria but a "virtual caliphate" could be harder to conquer, experts and...
Iraqi military captures Hawija from Islamic State
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Thursday.
With...
