Tag: ISIS
Saudi Arabia says stops 3 women, 7 children from joining Syria...
Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had prevented three Saudi women and seven children from travelling through Lebanon to join the conflict in neighbouring...
London schoolgirl who left to join Islamic State dead
One of three schoolgirls who left London in February 2015 to join the Islamic State militant group has died, her family lawyer told on...
Twitter not responsible for rise of Islamic State, rules US court
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Twitter that accused the micro-blogging site for the rise of the Islamic State (IS) terror group...
Trump accuses Obama of being the ‘founder of ISIS’
Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of founding the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European...
2 years of anti-IS airstrikes have redrawn the Iraqi map
Two years ago, the US-led coalition dropped the first airstrikes on the militant Islamic State group (IS), ushering in a deeper phase of intervention...
Passports of 68 Malaysians revoked over Islamic State links
Malaysian authorities have revoked the passports of 68 citizens over their involvement in Islamic State’s activities abroad, deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said,...
Why do Europeans join ISIS?
Why do Europeans join ISIS or ISIL? That’s a question that keeps coming up and bewilders governments, intelligence agencies, and counter-terrorism experts alike.
One of...
8-yr-old boy in UK questioned as teachers mistake t-shirt slogan for...
An eight-year-old boy has been questioned by Prevent officers after his teachers mistook his T-shirt slogan for ISIS propaganda, a report has claimed.
The unnamed...
Islamic State calls on members to carry out jihad in Russia
Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube video on Sunday.
“Listen, Putin, we will come...
Islamic State calls slain Pakistani-American soldier an ‘apostate’
Islamic State on Sunday condemned as an “apostate” a US Muslim soldier killed in Iraq whose story has re-ignited debate in the 2016 presidential...
ISIS in Pakistan: a myth or reality?
Government remains in a state of denial
Not too long ago, Lal Masjid cleric Maulvi Abdul Aziz’s seminary Jamia Hafsa released a video in which...
Many Islamic State leaders trying to flee to Syria: Iraqi minister
Many Islamic State leaders have fled Mosul with their families toward Syria ahead of a planned offensive by US-backed Iraqi forces on the city,...
Nawaz telephones Afghan president, condoles deaths in ISIS bombings
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif telephoned Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday and conveyed heartfelt condolences on behalf of the people and the government of...
Road to defeating ISIS goes through the internet
In post-Saddam Iraq, the Nouri al-Maliki regime’s sectarian policies only helped ISIS flourish in the country. The Sunnis were completely marginalised, and as a...
More madness, more bloodshed in Afghanistan
80 dead, 231 wounded as twin ISIS blasts strike Hazara Shias demonstration in Afghanistan’s Kabul
