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16 policemen killed in Egypt shootout with militants
Oct 21, 2017 (AFP)
Funerals were held in several provinces for those killed, whose coffins were wrapped in Egyptian flags. The official toll from the interior ministry was lower t...
Despite Raqa victory, US says IS fight not over
Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
IS had controlled the northern Syrian city since early 2014 and considered it to be the inner sanctum of its claimed "caliphate." US-backed Syrian Democratic Fo...
Mattis meets McCain amid tension over deadly Niger ambush
Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
Tempers have flared in recent weeks between President Donald Trump's administration and lawmakers frustrated about the lack of clarity regarding the clash with ...
As Islamic State falls, has US missed bigger picture?
Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
Political fault lines are ripping open across the region, even as the United States heralds the fall of the former IS bastion of Raqa in Syria, a major mileston...
Locals may have helped Islamic State ambush Green Berets in Niger
Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)
Officials suspect that some people in the Oct. 4 Tongo Tongo meeting may have been working with the Islamic State. Some people from the town have been arrested....
NATO chief hails defeat of IS from Raqa stronghold
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
The de facto Syrian capital of the "caliphate" controlled by IS, also known as ISIS, fell to US-backed forces on Tuesday, sinking another nail into the coffin o...
US strategy sees Raqa fall but leaves Kurds in lurch
Oct 17, 2017 (AFP)
Even as US-backed Kurdish fighters raised their flags over the shattered heart of Raqa, their brethren in Iraq were in retreat, abandoning oil-rich territory to...
Top Philippine Islamist militant Hapilon killed: defence chief
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
Security analysts describe Hapilon as the leader of the Islamic State group in Southeast Asia, where the jihadist outfit wants to establish a caliphate as they ...
Boko Haram raids military base in NE Nigeria: sources
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
The attack happened on Friday morning and targeted Nigerian troops in the town of Marte, near Lake Chad, a senior officer said. "They killed one soldier and sev...
Once promised paradise, IS fighters end up in mass graves
Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)
Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Baghdad, at a hastily-dug pit c...
Belgium seeks to bring back children stranded by IS
Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)
But in Belgium, authorities are also turning their attention to repatriating children stranded in the war zones. With an estimated 500 citizens who have reached...
Iraq-Syria border set for last major assault on IS: US general
Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)
He spoke two days after Iraqi forces recaptured the northern town of Hawija, the centre of one of the jihadist group's two remaining enclaves in Iraq. "The next...
Major battlefronts against IS in Iraq and Syria
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
On Thursday, Iraqi forces recaptured the northern town of Hawija, the centre of one of IS's last two remaining enclaves in the country. The jihadists are also f...
Sarin used in Syria 5 days before Khan Sheikhun: OPCW
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
"Analysis of samples collected (by the OPCW)... relates to an incident that took place again in the northern part of Syria on the 30th of March this year," the ...
Germany redeploys anti-IS surveillance jets to Jordan
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
Berlin decided in June to pull out the contingent after Ankara repeatedly denied German lawmakers the right to visit about 250 German troops then stationed at T...
Fleeing offensives, where are the IS jihadists going?
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
Facing multiple offensives, the jihadist group has lost the Libyan city of Sirte, Iraq's Mosul and Ramadi, and is now on the verge of being ousted from its form...
US, Philippine troops launch new counter-terror drills
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Duterte vowed last week to be "friendly" with the United States, in contrast to comments he made a year ago calling joint military exercises a "humiliation" and...
US says on track to destroy chemical weapons by 2023
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
"The United States remains committed to the complete destruction of its declared chemical weapons. We are on track to meet our self-imposed deadline for complet...
US destroys old chemical weapons left in Panama
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
"The operation started in mid-September to destroy the chemical munitions located on San Jose island" off Panama's southern coast, the ministry's director for l...
After long silence, IS says chief calls on jihadists to 'resist'
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
In his first alleged message in nearly a year and following reports of his possible death, the elusive jihadist leader called on his supporters to target the "m...
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