Tag: ISIS

Indian, Afghan agencies behind Balochistan unrest: FC chief

Speaking to reporters at FC headquarters on Monday, Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan chief Major General Sher Afgan said Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies were involved in the prevailing unrest in the restive province.

Islamic State executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with...

The sex slaves who somehow escaped Islamic State's clutches have told of how they were forced to marry fighters who physically and sexually abused them

ISIS goes on hiring spree in India: report

ISIS, the dreaded terror group that has massacred thousands across the globe, has headhunters in India and among Indians living abroad. They are recruiting...

Four Indians detained in IS stronghold in Libya

Four Indian nationals have been detained in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, an Indian government spokesman said on Friday, an area which is...

Islamic State is no weaker than a year ago

IS remains a well-funded extremist army able to replenish its ranks with foreign jihadis as quickly as the US can eliminate them

Drone strikes kill 20 Afghan IS militants

An Afghan official said on Thursday that two separate drone strikes in an eastern province bordering Pakistan have killed 20 suspected militants affiliated with...

IS planning to trigger war in India: report

“Attacking India is the Holy Grail of South Asian jihadists.”

ISIS flags raised in Jama Masjid area of Srinagar

Groups of youth waved the flag in memory of all the local religious and pro-freedom leaders who had been shot many years ago in mysterious circumstances.

Pakistan calls for comprehensive strategy against IS

The Pakistani envoy said that Pakistan believes that the path to sustainable peace in the Middle East lies only in the two-state solution and an end to Israeli occupation of all Arab lands

A year on, no quick fix to halt IS ‘caliphate’

IS's success is driven by various factors, chief among them its significant financial resources, superior firepower, and ability to play on the legitimate grievances of local populations in Syria and Iraq.

Suicide attack on Iraq police base kills at least 37

IS fighters have over the past year seized a formidable arsenal of military vehicles, weapons and ammunition from retreating Iraqi forces.

IS group in Saudi urges more attacks against Shias

The Islamic State “has ordered its soldiers everywhere to kill the enemies of religion, especially the Rawafedh (Shias),” a spokesperson for the group is heard as saying in the audio message.

Taliban lay siege on Afghan police compound, 26 people killed

Also on Monday, a suicide truck bomb attack and a separate roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan killed 11 people and wounded dozens more

Islamic State faces battle in Iraq, bombs in Syria

Iraqi forces have regained ground east of Ramadi since launching a counter-offensive on Saturday, a week after it was overrun, and on Monday retook a rural area south of the city.

NATO says ISIS in Pakistan

NATO’s Gen Campbell says ISIS recruiting in Afghanistan and Pakistan with ‘money being passed back and forth’ ISIS terrorists say they could buy nuclear weapon...

KP counterterrorism dept arrests 2 IS supporters

The suspects have been booked under the anti-terrorism law

Former Saddam Hussein spy masterminded the rise of Isis: report

One of Saddam Hussein’s former intelligence officers masterminded Islamic State’s takeover of northern Syria after becoming embittered by the US-led invasion of Iraq, according...