Islamic State

The Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday described the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney that killed 15 people as “a matter of pride”, according to Reuters, though the group stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack. The…
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Aydin Hadid Talal thought his whole family had been killed in Islamic State’s ferocious assault on Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority a decade ago. Then last year, the 20-year-old started receiving messages from a Facebook account he didn’t…
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At least 60 people died and over 100 injured after a group of gunmen sprayed bullets inside a large concert hall in Russia's capital Moscow. The attackers also set fire to the concert hall. The brazen attack came days after Russia…
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Helicopter-borne US troops working with Syrian Kurdish-led forces on Saturday captured an Islamic State provincial official in Syria, the US military said. The IS official, identified as Batar, was "involved in planning attacks on...…
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Islamic State - Khorasan Province (ISKP) will soon release a propaganda video of assassination of senior Afghani cleric Rahimullah Haqqani who died in a suicide blast last month, the group’s media wing Al Azaim Foundation said. The Islamic…
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The UN envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday said that the regional affiliate of the Islamic State group now appears present in nearly all Afghan provinces and “increasingly active”. Briefing on the Afghanistan situation following the…
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