Tag: ISIS
IS claims Bangladesh bombing, police kill militant
DHAKA: The Islamic State Group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on a Bangladesh security forces camp, while police in Dhaka...
Living in constant terror – Banned outfits continue fearmongering in Kurram
PARICHANAR: A BBC report has reported a marked drop in the amount of sectarian violence in Pakistan’s tribal region of the Kurram agency. However the...
Former-Iraqi soldier tried in German court for taking photo with beheaded...
BERLIN: A Berlin court on Wednesday began hearing a case against a former Iraqi soldier charged with war crimes after he allegedly posed for photographs...
Govts should address corruption to defeat IS: BBC report
MIDDLE EAST: Transparency International, an international organisation has recently released a report in which governments, including the UK and the US, have been majorly accused...
Pakistan’s call for action against JuA alone ‘ambiguous’
Pakistan’s response to the deadly bombing at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sehwan has brought to surface an important albeit ambiguous aspect of the...
Losing in Iraq, Islamic State seeks to shore up Syria presence
BEIRUT: Islamic State is fighting hard to reinforce its presence in Syria as it loses ground in Iraq, deploying fighters to seize full control of...
Trump Fish: Iraqi restaurant spells out Kurdish faith in president-elect
The newest enterprise bearing Donald Trump’s name is not a five-star hotel or an exclusive golf club. It is a restaurant in northern Iraq...
Attacks near IS-held Mosul in Iraq kill 34
Mortar fire and car bombs killed more than 30 people including aid workers near Mosul Thursday as Iraqi forces battled to seize the city...
Islamic State recruits more educated than average: World Bank study
Recruits into the Islamic State group are better educated than their average countryman, contrary to popular belief, according to a new World Bank study.
Moreover,...
US man to plead guilty to conspiring to help Islamic State
A Rhode Island man charged last year with plotting to behead Massachusetts police officers in support of the Islamic State militant group is due...
Syria’s UN ambassador says US support for IS evident after strikes...
Syria’s UN ambassador accused the United States on Sunday of seeking the failure of a ceasefire in his country and backing the Islamic State...
4 Daesh terrorists held in Lahore
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and intelligence agencies Friday arrested at least four terrorists belonging to Daesh, also known as Islamic State, during a...
Turkey army move to drive IS out of Syria border town
Turkey’s army and international coalition forces on Wednesday started an operation aimed at driving Islamic State jihadists out of the Syrian town of Jarabulus...
US-backed Syrian forces gave defeated ISIS militants safe passage
Islamic State fighters surrounded during the key battle for Manbij, Syria, last week agreed to surrender their weapons to US-backed Syrian forces in return...
Leaked papers reveal most IS recruits know little about Islam
The jihadi employment form asked the new recruits to rate their knowledge of Islam on a scale of one to three. And the Islamic...
Islamic State faces uphill ‘branding war’ in Afghanistan, Pakistan
The US drone strike that killed Islamic State’s commander for Afghanistan and Pakistan was the latest blow to the Middle East led movement’s ambitions...
ISIS leader Hafiz Saeed Khan killed in joint US-Afghan operation
Afghan Ambassador to Islamabad Dr Omar Zakhilwal on Friday confirmed the regional chief of Islamic State militant group Hafiz Saeed Khan has been killed in a joint US-Afghan operation.
