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The Islamic State's 'caliphate' in Syria, Iraq
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
On Thursday the US-led coalition said that recent gains by Kurdish-led forces which it backs in Syria have shrunk the group's "caliphate" to less than one perce...
US strikes in Somalia won't stop Shabaab: US general
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
The Pentagon is running an ongoing mission in which US forces work with African Union and Somali national security forces to fight the Shabaab movement. "At the...
US promises to keep IS fight after '100 percent' defeat
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
Trump addressed officials from more than 70 countries who came to Washington to discuss ways ahead in the battle Islamic State, also known as ISIS, after Trump ...
UK believes photographer held by IS still alive: reports
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
"Wallace told reporters in London that the British government believes (John) Cantlie is still being held by ISIS," CNN reported, using another name for the IS ...
US offers Niger operations centre to fight Boko Haram
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
The planning and operations control centre, worth $16.5 million (14.4 million euros), is designed to help Niger forces sychronise its operations through improve...
Turkey captures IS suspects on Syria border: ministry
Feb 02, 2019 (AFP)
Border units from the Turkish armed forces captured the four "Daesh terrorists" on Friday in the Akcakale district of Sanliurfa in southeast Turkey, the ministr...
Three Iraqis held for 'Islamist attack' plot in Germany
Jan 30, 2019 (AFP)
Two of the men had "decided in late 2018 to carry out an Islamist attack in Germany,a" prosecutors said in a statement. "According to the investigation so far, ...
Captured Irish jihadist tells of dying days of 'caliphate'
Jan 30, 2019 (AFP)
"I thought we were going to die from the starvation," the Muslim convert, 46 this year, told AFP in English, captured after fleeing the extremist group's crumbl...
IS still has 'thousands' of fighters, seeking comeback: US intel chief
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
The stark warning by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats came even as acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan announced that IS was poised to lose all it...
SAS soldier saved lives in Nairobi attack: reports
Jan 17, 2019 (AFP)
"Without this British special forces soldier, many more lives would have been lost," the Daily Mirror quoted a senior British military source as saying. "His se...
HRW says children tortured in Iraq Kurdistan for 'IS links'
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
The rights group said it interviewed 23 boys aged between 14 and 17 who were charged with, or convicted of, belonging to IS, and that 16 of them said they had b...
Turkey, Iraq to boost anti-terror cooperation
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
"We know the importance of working together to be successful in our fight against terror. God willing, in the future we will deepen our cooperation in this area...
Iraq sentenced 616 foreigners for IS links in 2018
Dec 31, 2018 (AFP)
Iraq declared "victory" over IS at the end of 2017 after a three-year war against the jihadists, who once controlled nearly a third of the country as well as sw...
Russian IS fighters' children return home from Iraq
Dec 30, 2018 (AFP)
The fathers of the children, aged three to ten years old, are believed to have been killed in combat during Iraq's three-year war against the jihadists, a Russi...
German IS woman let 'slave' girl, 5, die of thirst: prosecutors
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
While living in then IS-occupied Mosul, Iraq, the 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W. and her husband had purchased the child as a househo...
Dozens of bodies 'found in IS mass grave' in Iraq
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
Security forces have discovered dozens of mass graves since they drove out IS in 2017 after three years of occupation of swathes of northern and western Iraq. T...
UK and France to do more against IS after US Syria pullout
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
"The global coalition against Daesh has made huge progress," said a government statement issued late Wednesday, referring to the jihadists. "Since military oper...
Six suspected jihadists killed in French air strike in Mali: military
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
A surveillance drone followed eight "members of an armed terrorist group" as they crossed the border on motorcycles from Niger into Mali, Colonel Patrik Steiger...
Mali to send reinforcements to Timbuktu
Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)
Another 350 police officers, paramilitary gendarmes and soldiers will be deployed, Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga told reporters in Bamako Saturday on h...
Nobel laureate urges Yazidi protection until IS leaders tried
Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)
"All the victims need a safe haven until Daesh is brought to the international courts," the 25-year-old Iraqi said at an international conference in Doha, using...
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