Tag: ISIS
Trump calls for death penalty for New York attack suspect
NEW YORK: An Uzbek immigrant accused of plowing a truck down a New York City bike path, killing eight people, told investigators he had...
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...
Russia supplying free fuel to Taliban in war against NATO forces:...
Russia is supporting the Afghan Taliban against NATO forces through a covert programme of laundered fuel sales, The Times said in a report on...
TTP abducted Pakistani diplomats, Afghanistan tells Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan government has officially shared with Pakistan that two Pakistani diplomatic officials who were abducted from near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, around three months back,...
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...
Families of slain, jailed IS operatives getting monetary support in Peshawar:...
Citing a report available with it, a local media outlet reported Friday that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Peshawar have...
ISIS behind Jhal Magsi shrine attack
--Death toll reaches 21
KARACHI: The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Daesh on Friday claimed the responsibility for the bombing...
Was IS claim for Las Vegas attack ‘fake news’?
‘ISIS desperate for attention’
Claims of responsibility for terror attacks by the Islamic State group were once seen as credible, but in the wake...
FO says Pakistan remains immune to Islamic State
-- Zakria asks world community to take notice of India’s surgical strike threats
--Says RAW-Taliban nexus behind terrorism in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakria on...
Israel says it foiled planned ISIS-inspired attack at Jerusalem holy site
JERUSALEM: Israel said on Thursday it had thwarted a plan by two Israeli Arabs with Islamic State sympathies to mount an attack at a...
HRW says US-led strikes killed 84 civilians near Syria’s Raqa
The group said the strikes hit two sites: a school housing displaced families in the town of Mansourah, and a market and bakery in the town of Tabqa.
‘Khilafat is coming’: Islamabad police clueless as to who put up...
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified people on Sunday were able to put up an Islamic State (Daesh) flag at Islamabad Expressway near Iqbal Town, Islamabad under the...
Syrian war archives at risk as YouTube bans graphic content
Activists say crucial evidence of human rights violations risks being lost as well as an outlet to the world that is crucial for them.
Nine killed, 25 injured in car bombing in Baghdad market
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, though the attack had all the hallmarks of the militant Islamic State (IS) group, which often claims responsibility for large-scale attacks targeting Shia civilians in Iraq's capital.
Negotiations underway to evacuate rebels from Syrian capital
DAMASCUS: Negotiations were under way on Sunday on evacuating insurgents and their families from two districts in Damascus, a Syrian military source on the...
