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Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of Iraq

Dec 02, 2017 (AFP)

In 2014, IS killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the community to abuse them as sex slaves. The Hashed al-Shaab...

S. Sudan to join Chemical Weapons Convention: watchdog

Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)

"South Sudan has no reason to sit on the fence," top foreign ministry official Moses Akol Ajawin told the annual meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition...

Argentine court sentences 48 in 'Dirty War' trial

Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)

The trial is part of an effort to probe torture and crimes against humanity committed at the ESMA Naval Mechanics School. Only a fraction of an estimated 5,000 ...

US coalition conduct 11 strikes on ISIS over Thanksgiving weekend

Nov 27, 2017 (UPI)

The Department of Defense reports that the most recent strikes took place on Nov. 24 and 25, and the results of the strikes are based on initial reports. Pentag...

Saudi vows new Islamic alliance 'will wipe terrorists from the earth'

Nov 26, 2017 (AFP)

"In past years, terrorism has been functioning in all of our countries... with no coordination" among national authorities, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is a...

Egypt mourns 235 victims of Sinai mosque attack

Nov 25, 2017 (AFP)

Special prayers were planned nationwide a day after gunmen detonated a bomb and mowed down worshippers fleeing the Rawda mosque in North Sinai, where security f...

NATO welcomes Mladic war crimes verdict

Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)

Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia", was sentenced to life in jail by UN judges in the Hague after being found guilty of 10 counts including genocide, war cr...

Iran's supreme leader hails end of IS 'tumour'

Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)

In an address broadcast on national television, he told a gathering of Basiji militia fighters in Tehran that they had "managed to repel and destroy" IS. "Succe...

Iran declares 'victory' over IS

Nov 21, 2017 (AFP)

Iran is one of the main international backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has sent military advisers and thousands of "volunteers" to fight IS on th...

Nature's Silent Sentinels Could Help Detect Security Threats

Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)

DARPA has been involved on the research side of the equation since the Agency's earliest days, developing technologies such as the VELA satellites and seismogra...

IS not dead yet but 'caliphate' dream in tatters

Nov 18, 2017 (AFP)

The Islamic State jihadist group may not be dead yet but its dream of statehood has already been buried, analysts say. No one in IS "will now think of imposing ...

Egypt confirms death of leading jihadist in air strikes

Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)

Former army officer turned jihadist Emad al-Din Abdel Hamid had commanded the group that killed at least 16 policemen in an October 20 Western Desert ambush and...

IS has lost 95% of its 'caliphate': US-led coalition

Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)

"Since our coalition was formed in 2014, ISIS has lost 95 percent of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria," Washington's envoy to the coalition, B...

Algeria minister says region under threat after IS defeats

Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)

Messahel spoke at a news conference in Cairo after a meeting with his Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts, Sameh Shoukry and Khemaies Jhinaoui, over Libya. The I...

Russia posts videogame image as 'proof' US helps IS: monitor

Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)

The ministry's official account said the black-and-white images were taken on November 9 near the Syria-Iraq border and provided "irrefutable proof that the US ...

Mass graves holding '400 IS victims' found in Iraq

Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)

The string of grisly discoveries was made at a military base around three kilometres (two miles) from the city that the jihadists "turned into an execution grou...

US kills 'several militants' in Somalia air strike

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

The attack took place early Thursday in the Bay region in the center of the country, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Mogadishu. The strike was carried ...

IS left clinging to scraps in Syria and Iraq

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

The latest loss leaves the jihadists clinging on to just a few small pockets of territory in Iraq and Syria, a far cry from the vast stretches they controlled a...

Macron warns looming military defeat of IS 'not the end'

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

He was speaking after Syrian troops and allied militiamen broke into the IS-held town of Albu Kamal on the Iraqi border, edging closer to ousting the jihadists ...

Shiite pilgrims in Iraq's Karbala hail 'revenge' against IS

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

"God has taken his revenge" against the Sunni extremist group, he said, after Iraqi security forces backed by mainly Shiite paramilitary units this year swept t...