updated Wed. January 31, 2024
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Times of Central Asia
April 25, 2018
BEIJING (TCA) — Militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization are moving to Central Asia and Southeast Asia after having been defeated in Syria and Iraq, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on April 24 at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers inÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 25, 2018
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces foiled on Wednesday an attack by the Islamic State (IS) militants on a security roadblock in Diyala, ... at its main havens across Iraq, Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks against troops with security reports warning that the militant group still poses aÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 25, 2018
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – An Iraqi court has sentenced four Islamic State (IS) militants to death over carrying out terrorist attacks against military outposts in Iraq. The Anbar Criminal Court found the four IS militants guilty of standing behind assaults on security and military posts in Fallujah and RamadiÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 25, 2018
The statement made it clear that an explosive charge left over by Islamic State militants went off in Hawija district last night, leaving a fighter of al-Hashd ... The town had fallen to IS in June 2014, when the militant group seized control of much of northern and western Iraq and proclaimed the creation of aÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 24, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced, in December, full liberation of Iraqi lands, declaring end of war against IS members. Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against security troops. Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in theÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 24, 2018
“Iraqi troops launched a security operation targeting Islamic State militants in al-Karma and Ramadi districts in Anbar, managing to arrest four IS ... at its main havens across Iraq, Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks against troops with security reports warning that the militant group still poses aÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 24, 2018
Mohammad Habibzada. WASHINGTON — Islamic State militants decapitated three brothers in Chaparhar district, its traditional stronghold in eastern Nangarhar province, officials told VOA. “Nisar, Naeem and Abul Wahab, all working in the medical profession, did not have any links to the AfghanÃâà...
Firstpost
April 23, 2018
Jalalabad: Three brothers have been beheaded in restive eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday, blaming the gruesome executions on Islamic State group fighters. The men aged 19, 24 and 27 were taken from their home and killed by Islamic State on Sunday night in Chaparhar district inÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 22, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – As many as 36 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Sunday after Iraqi warplanes targeted their terrorist hotbed located in ... Iraq last December, Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks against troops with security reports warning that the militant group still poses aÃâà...
CNBC
March 24, 2018
"This attempt comes in the context of terrorist Muslim Brotherhood elements trying to disrupt the electoral process and influence citizens into not going to the polls and participating in the presidential election," the agency said. Islamic State and other militant groups have successfully assassinated officials inÃâà...
Firstpost
March 24, 2018
He said youth in Kashmir should not be swayed by the extremist ideology and understand Islam in its correct perspective. "Some elements are creating confusion among masses by raising Islamic State flags at militants' funeral. We kept a close watch on them, and will soon chart out a plan to stop them afterÃâà...
Guns.com
March 23, 2018
From the West African country of Mali comes a story of an isolated village where the locals have banded together to fight off terrorists with whatever they have. Mali has been in the midst of a low-key war since 2012 that started off with Tuareg rebels fighting the government and transitioned to anÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 23, 2018
TREBES: A gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed three people in a shooting spree and supermarket hostage siege in ... group claimed the attack was in response to its call to target Western enemies - as is customary when the assailant has pledged allegiance to the militants.
The Courier
March 21, 2018
Large numbers of Iraqis were detained during the 2000s, when the U.S. and Iraqi governments were battling Sunni militants, including al-Qaida, and Shiite militias. In 2007, at the height of the fighting, the U.S. military held 25,000 detainees. The spreadsheet obtained by the AP showed that about 6,000Ãâà...
ABC News
March 21, 2018
Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to the Islamic State group or other terror-related offenses, and ... The mass incarceration and speed of guilty verdicts raise concerns over potential miscarriages of justice — and worries that jailed militants are recruiting withinÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 6, 2018
At least 31 suspected insurgents, including Islamic State militants, were killed over the past 24 hours in ground and air strikes launched by the Afghan Army in different parts of the country, the Defense Ministry said on March 6. Seventeen suspected militants were wounded and two were arrested, theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 6, 2018
HAJ ALI, IRAQ — “They kicked us out of our home and stole our furniture and valuables,” said Rugya Saleem, a mother of six, plucking at the carpet of the tent in a desert refugee camp. She said her husband was forced to join Islamic State militants, and then was later killed by victims of the group.
AllAfrica.com
March 6, 2018
A propaganda video released by Islamic State appears to show an ambush in Niger that killed four American soldiers last year. In the video, three American soldiers have few resources to fight off dozens of militants armed with machine guns and grenades. Part of the nine-minute recording appears to beÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 6, 2018
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in clashes with pro-government troops on a border area between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, local sources told Basnews website Monday. “The clashes between al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) and IS militantsÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 5, 2018
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – About 20 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in clashes with Iraqi forces in Hawija district in Kirkuk, a security source was ... The town had fallen to IS in June 2014, when the militant group seized control of much of northern and western Iraq and proclaimed the creation of aÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 5, 2018
MANILA: Philippine police announced on Monday (Mar 5) the arrest of a suspected pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadist accused of killing civilians in last year's ... The Philippine military warned last month that the remaining militants from Marawi have mustered a force of about 200 gunmen to launch a secondÃâà...
Ahval
March 3, 2018
Former Kurdish-majority Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Salih Muslim has told Euronews that Shia militants in the Syrian region of Afrin were sent with the help of Russia. “We have no agreement or direct communication with the regime,” Muslim said. “Coming to the call to the regime for help, that wasÃâà...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops killed on Sunday seven Islamic State (IS) militants while trying to infiltrate into al-Ba'aj district in Nineveh province, a military spokesman was quoted as saying. Speaking to the Kuwaiti al-Watan newspaper, spokesman for the Nineveh Operations CommandÃâà...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
Fazili was one of the three militants who had been killed early that morning in a gunfight with security forces in a south Kashmir village some 60 kilometres away. Various ... The rival groups of mourners soon got into a scuffle while youth swarmed around a man believed to be the militant who recruited Fazili.
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Czech authorities have detained a man suspected of carrying out two attacks on trains while blaming them on Islamic militants. State prosecutor Martin Bily said Wednesday that the man is suspected of cutting down two trees that fell on train tracks last year near the city of Mlada Boleslav, some 50Ãâà...
