Tag: ISIS
How the West can prevent Nice from becoming the ‘new normal’
Hours after a truck ploughed through a crowd in Nice, France, killing 84 people, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his policy against Islamic...
Islamic State inspired attacks aid militants at low cost
The Islamic State group has claimed several high-profile attacks in the West that it appears to have inspired rather than planned, sowing fear and...
Indian youth says joined ISIS but will return to avenge IHK...
One of the missing youngsters of Indian state of Kerala has sent a message to his family in which he has accepted that he...
ISIS confirms death of “minister of war” Abu Omar al-Shishani
The Middle East based Islamic State militant group has confirmed that its top commander Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was dubbed as minister of war...
Bangladesh bins Indian media reports alleging Pak’s link to Dhaka attack
Bangladesh has refuted Indian media reports claiming it blamed Pakistan for the recent Dhaka cafe siege which killed at least 20 people.
Terming reports by...
Terrorist attack “inevitable” in US: NYPD
A top New York Police Department (NYPD) official says a domestic terror attack on U.S. soil is “inevitable,” but insists that the city will...
Hostage-takers were from Bangladesh group, not Islamic State: minister
The attackers who slaughtered 20 hostages at a Dhaka restaurant were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant outfit and not followers of the Islamic...
Several foreigners hacked to death in Dhaka cafe attack
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina pleads extremists to ‘stop killing in name of religion’ as 20 foreigners were killed and several injured after as many as seven militants stormed an upscale restaurant in capital city
Air strikes decimate IS forces fleeing Iraq’s Fallujah
The strikes appear to spell the end of fixed IS positions in eastern Anbar province, further shrinking the “caliphate” the group proclaimed over large parts of Iraq and Syria two years ago.
IS kills Christian priest in Egypt’s North Sinai
Islamist militants gunned down a Christian priest in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as he was fixing his car, the Interior Ministry and the Coptic Orthodox...
‘Daesh-linked’ suspect held in Rawalpindi
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday arrested a suspect, who allegedly had links with Daesh, from the Saddar area of Rawalpindi.
Acting on a...
ISIS fighting to the death inside Falluja
The sound of gunfire exchanged between Iraqi forces and the small pockets of ISIS militants rang out across the besieged city of Falluja, American...
Iraqi forces seize center of Fallujah from ISIS
Elite Iraqi forces backed by US-led coalition airstrikes punched through Islamic State defenses in Fallujah on Friday, seizing the municipal compound and other buildings...
Islamic State Twitter accounts hacked, replaced with gay pride and porn
The pro-IS accounts that were hacked were all renamed “Jacked by a Ghost” and most linked to the CIA’s official website.
Iraqi forces find mass grave near Fallujah
Growing numbers of families reaching camps south of Fallujah told horrific accounts of how IS shot at them as they fled, but there was still no escape for the tens of thousands believed trapped in the city centre.
Pope prays to ‘convert hearts’ of Islamic State extremists
Pope Francis on Wednesday asked God to “convert the hearts of those who sow death and destruction” following a series of deadly attacks by...
Daesh ‘falsely claiming’ attacks in Bangladesh
Daesh is trying to ride a wave of religious radicalisation by falsely claiming a spate of killings in Bangladesh, a government minister said, adding...