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Islamic State: pioneers of the 'digital caliphate'
Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)
At the height of its reign over a vast chunk of Iraq and Syria in 2014-2015, the Sunni jihadist group had a huge digital footprint, flooding social media with s...
IS loss affirms Pentagon plan, but end game vague as US pulls out
Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)
From a military perspective at least, the United States can claim significant success in its strategy of working "by, with and through" local proxy forces, wher...
As 'caliphate' ends where is its leader Baghdadi?
Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)
After declaring himself caliph in 2014, Baghdadi held sway over seven million people across swathes of Syria and Iraq, where IS implemented its brutal version o...
Doomed jihadists retreat within shrinking Syria bastion
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
Advancing Kurdish-led forces forced diehard fighters from the Islamic State group out of the main encampment where they had been confined in recent days. The mo...
Assault on IS jihadist redoubt in Syria grinds on
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
Even as it fought IS, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces also came under threat from Damascus, which has sworn to retake the third of the country the SDF ...
US denies report it is leaving up to 1,000 troops in Syria
Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)
The Wall Street Journal had reported Sunday that as talks with Turkey, US-backed Kurdish forces and European allies have failed to produce a deal on a "safe zon...
Chemical weapons probe team to start in 'weeks'
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
Member countries of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons agreed in June to allow the body to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks, ...
Syria govt rejects watchdog report on deadly chlorine attack
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said last Friday that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe toxic chemicals containing "reactive c...
Iraq receives 280 IS jihadists from US-backed Syria force
Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have detained "a large number" of IS fighters "of multiple nationalities, including more than 500 Iraqis", the security media...
France says kills top Al-Qaeda commander in Sahel
Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)
Djamel Okacha, an Algerian commander in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was killed on Thursday after French commandos, helicopters and a drone hit a col...
'Voice of Paris attacks' killed in Syria: sources
Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)
Fabien Clain, who is believed to have gone to Syria in March 2015, was killed in the terror group's last Syrian redoubt of Baghouz, the sources said on conditio...
Russia pioneering return of 'ISIS children'
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
A potential homecoming of the many foreign women who have gone to live in the IS "caliphate" and their children, many of whom were born there, has been a subjec...
Navy conducts annual anti-terrorism force protection exercise
Feb 18, 2019 (UPI)
Exercise Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2019, which ended Friday, was designed to ensure Navy security forces "maintain a high level of readiness to respond to ch...
US struggles to convince anti-IS allies to secure Syria after it leaves
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
As US-led Arab and Kurdish forces were fighting in the last IS territorial holdout in Syria, 13 defence ministers of the anti-IS coalition met on the sidelines ...
Top general won't say 'winning' in anti-IS fight
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump in December declared victory over IS, saying the US had "beaten them badly" and "we have won" as he announced the 2,000 or so American tr...
US targets Al-Qaeda in Libya air strike
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
The strike near the town of Ubari, some 900 kilometres (550 miles) south of the capital, was coordinated with the GNA, said President Fayez al-Sarraj's spokesma...
Britain will 'do what it takes' to beat IS: minister
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
Acting US defence secretary Patrick Shanahan said he would consult with allies at a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels about the "potential" for an o...
Tunisia IS-linked children must be brought home: HRW
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
The rights group, quoting Tunisia's ministry of women and children, said about 200 children and 100 women claiming Tunisian nationality were being held in "squa...
Caught in Syria, foreign jihadist suspects may face trial in Iraq
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
Both countries have suffered for years at the hands of the Islamic State group and Iraqi courts have already meted out hefty sentences to hundreds of foreigners...
Russia 'repatriates' 27 IS children from Iraq
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
The children landed at Ramenskoye airport, near Moscow, on Sunday evening, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Emergency Situations, quoted by TASS agency. "Tw...
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