Tag: ISIS

Putin orders start of Russian forces’ withdrawal from Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was instructing his armed forces to start pulling out of Syria, over five months after he...

IS ‘minister of war’ likely killed in US air strike in...

A militant Islamic State (IS) group commander described by the Pentagon as the group's "minister of war" was likely killed in a United States...

ISIS offers a cause JuD jihadists are finding hard to resist

Security sources say educated youth taught to live and die in the name of Islam are feeling disoriented after JuD went soft on active jihad and started focusing on welfare activities

US, Russia announce Syria ceasefire set for Saturday

United States and Russia announced on Monday that a cessation of hostilities in war-torn Syria will go into effect on February 27, as fierce...

Not part of 34-country grand bloc against terror yet: Sartaj Aziz

    Advisor to Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said that the country has neither signed an...

Security czar doesn’t see Daesh as imminent threat

Days after IB chief’s warning of dreaded terror network's presence in Pakistan, Nisar says Daesh does not maintain the same level of presence in...

Malaysia warns of Islamic State threat as alleged IS video surfaces

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the militant Islamic State (IS) group is a "very real" threat to the country, hours after a video...

Gandhi statue defaced with ‘ISIS zindabad’ chalking in India

Indian nationalist leader Gandhi’s statue in Dudu tehsil of Rajasthan, India was defaced by vandals on Monday with the name of Islamic State militant...

IS radio beams propaganda, threats across rural Afghanistan

The Afghan reporters recognised the voice threatening them with death on the militant Islamic State group’s local radio station. It was a former colleague,...

David Cameron calls on Muslim women to learn English to combat...

Much more needs to be done to help Muslim women learn English and integrate more as a key part of the fight against Islamist extremism, David Cameron will say.

7 dead, 11 injured in gunbattle near Pak consulate in Afghanistan

Islamic State claims suicide and gun attack, bomber had attempted to storm Pakistani consulate building but was stopped by security personnel Security of Pakistani missions...

Canadian held hostage by Taliban released after 5 years

A Canadian man, held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since November 2010, has been released. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, in a statement on...

Punjab law minister reveals Daesh footprints in Pakistan

Rana Sanaullah says nearly 100 Pakistanis have left for Iraq and Syria to join feared militant outfit while security forces have arrested 42 suspected Daesh militants in raids across Punjab, including 9 who were members of Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaatud Dawa

ISIS counterattacks after Iraqi forces recapture Ramadi

Fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS) have continued to pursue counterattacks on the edges of Ramadi a week after the city was recaptured by...

Youngsters from Pakistan being recruited in Daesh: report

  An Interior Ministry report has revealed that youngsters from Pakistan are being sent to Afghanistan for joining the terrorist group Daesh also known as...

ISIS-inspired militant apprehended from Karachi

FO says agencies put on alert for Daesh threat   As the Foreign Office said on Friday the country’s security agencies have been put on alert...

Trump calls Clinton ‘liar’ for Islamic State recruiting claim

United States (US) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday that Democrat Hillary Clinton was a "liar" for claiming that his proposal to...