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With Baghdadi gone, who is heir to the 'caliph'?
Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)
It was limited further on Sunday night after Kurdish fighters in Syria said they had killed IS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir -- another prominent figure -- in...
Trump confirms death of Islamic State group chief Baghdadi in US raid
Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)
Trump told the nation in a televised address from the White House that US forces killed a "large number" of Islamic State (IS) group militants during the raid, ...
Trump confirms death of Islamic State chief Baghdadi in US raid
Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)
Trump told the nation in a televised address from the White House that US forces killed a "large number" of Islamic State militants during the raid which culmin...
Islamic State's 'caliphate' in Syria, Iraq
Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that the group's elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during a nightime US raid in northern Syria. Here ...
Chemical weapons watchdog checking Kurdish allegations in Syria
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
"OPCW experts are engaged in the process of assessing the credibility of allegations concerning the situation in Northern Syria," the Organisation for the Prohi...
French FM holds Iraq talks on IS prisoners in Syria
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
European governments are worried that the Turkish operation against Kurdish militants will allow the escape of some of the 12,000 suspected Islamic State group ...
France, Iraq to mull framework for jihadist trials
Oct 16, 2019 (AFP)
"We need to work things out with the Iraqi authorities so that we can find a way to have a judicial mechanism that is able to judge all these fighters, includin...
UN warns of Syria jihadists risk; Russian troops replacing Americans in Syria
Oct 16, 2019 (AFP)
"Members of the Security Council expressed deep concerns over the risks of dispersion of terrorists from UN-designated groups, including ISIL," the statement sa...
HRW warns against mass transfer of IS suspects to Iraq
Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)
The New York-based watchdog expressed concern that some countries with significant contingents of prisoners in Syria were seeking to move them across the border...
Turkey offensive could undermine IS fight: NATO chief
Oct 10, 2019 (AFP)
"We have made enormous progress in the fight against ISIS...we must make sure that we preserve those gains," Stoltenberg said during a visit to Athens. "We have...
US kills seven suspected IS jihadists in Libya air strike
Sep 30, 2019 (AFP)
"Our pursuit of ISIS-Libya and other terrorist networks degrades their ability to effectively conduct operations against the Libyan people," said Africa Command...
US military struggles to weed out soldiers with far-right ties
Sep 26, 2019 (AFP)
Jarrett Smith, a private in the US Army based at Fort Riley in Kansas, was arrested and charged in federal court with one count of distributing information rela...
Murders of land activists spike under Philippines' Duterte: watchdog
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
Campaigners who challenge powerful logging, mining and fruit growing interests have long faced deadly violence in the Philippines, but the recent increase marke...
IS head urges followers to 'rescue' jailed jihadists and families
Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)
"The prisons, the prisons, soldiers of the caliphate!" said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive head of the group which once controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria,...
Ultra-fast bomb detection technology could boost airport security
Aug 29, 2019 (UPI)
The chemical fingerprinting technology requires the swabbing of materials, which can then be tested. The method can identify trace amounts of a variety of chemi...
Sri Lanka's new army chief dismisses war crimes claims
Aug 26, 2019 (AFP)
Shavendra Silva has been accused by the United Nations of committing war crimes during the final stages of Sri Lanka's separatist conflict, which ended in 2009....
Pentagon chief confirms death of Qaeda's Hamza bin Laden
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
"That's my understanding," Esper said in an interview late Wednesday with Fox News, when asked if Hamza bin Laden was dead. "I don't have the details on that. A...
Islamic State persists despite territory loss: Pompeo
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
"There are places where ISIS is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago," Pompeo said on CBS's "This Morning" show. "But the caliphate is gon...
Chinese state media ups ante over Hong Kong 'mobsters'
Aug 13, 2019 (AFP)
On Monday, Beijing described unrest and clashes in Hong Kong -- which started as opposition to a proposed extradition law but morphed into calls for democratic ...
IS 'resurging' in Syria as US pulls troops: watchdog
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
The jihadists -- who suffered major territorial losses at the hands of Iraqi and Syrian forces backed by a US-led international air campaign -- are exploiting w...
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