Daesh

The Syrian Interior Ministry said on Thursday it had foiled a Daesh plot to carry out suicide attacks targeting New Year celebrations and churches, particularly in Aleppo. In a statement, the ministry said intelligence obtained through…
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday night that the United States had carried out a “powerful and deadly” strike against Daesh militants in Nigeria, following weeks of criticism of the Nigerian government over alleged persecution of…
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His orange henna-dyed beard and striking eyewear would make him easy to pick out in a crowd, but Abdul Qadir Mumin has remained elusive. The Somalian leader of the Daesh group has in all likelihood risen to the status of strongman of the…
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Afghanistan’s Daesh group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists. Since winning their own…
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France has charged the ex-wife of a top Daesh official with crimes against humanity on suspicion of enslaving a teenage Yazidi girl in Syria, French media reported. A woman identified as Sonia M., the former wife of the jihadist group’s…
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The Daesh on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on Niger’s army that it said had killed 30 soldiers on Wednesday. The group said in a statement carried by its AMAQ news agency and posted on its Telegram channel that the soldiers…
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Shamima Begum has spoken of the first time she talked to her mother after leaving the UK in 2015, at the age of 15, to join Daesh in Syria. “The first time I called my mum she was just crying. I felt like she was trying to make me feel…
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The Daesh group claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul, which Islamabad decried as an “assassination attempt.” A security guard was wounded in the attack Friday in the Afghan capital. In a statement…
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Despite territorial defeats and leadership losses, the threat posed by Daesh has been rising since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to persist, underlining the importance of implementing non-military measures to counter…
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Eight soldiers and 57 “terrorists” were killed in clashes at a rebel base in northern Mali where rival terrorist groups, including the so-called Daesh, are active, the Malian army said on Saturday. Friday’s fighting followed an air raid…
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