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Pentagon: U.S. forces see 'dramatic' drop in Islamic State activity in Iraq, Syria
Aug 09, 2023 (UPI)
In its July monthly review, U.S. Central Command said it assisted in 31 operations with its coalition partners in both countries last month, killing five Islami...
Islamic State group announces death of leader
Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)
The leader "was killed after direct clashes" with jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, an IS spokesman said in a recorded message on its chann...
UK recognises 'acts of genocide' against Yazidis by Islamic State
Aug 01, 2023 (AFP)
The Yazidis -- whose pre-Islamic religion made them the target of IS extremists -- were subjected to massacres, forced marriages and sex slavery during the jiha...
Iraq arrests suspect in 2014 IS massacre of cadets
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
After overrunning the air force academy at Camp Speicher where thousands of cadets were being trained, the Sunni extremists of IS separated out the Shiites and ...
US destroys its last chemical weapons, watchdog hails milestone
Jul 07, 2023 (AFP)
"Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile -- bringing us one step closer to a world free f...
Kremlin says only hits 'military' targets after restaurant strike
Jun 28, 2023 (AFP)
The comments come a day after the Ria Pizza restaurant -- popular with soldiers, journalists and aid workers -- was destroyed in the city, one of the largest st...
6,000 Myanmar civilians killed in 20 months post coup: report
Jun 13, 2023 (AFP)
"Our data shows that the human toll of the conflict is higher than previously reported, and while the junta is clearly the main killer, anti-junta forces also h...
US, Saudi urge Western nations to repatriate IS jihadists
Jun 08, 2023 (AFP)
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said it was "disheartening and absolutely unacceptable" that some wealthy countries had not brought their nation...
UN to launch central archives of IS crimes in Iraq
Jun 07, 2023 (AFP)
UNITAD, the UN body set up to investigate IS crimes in the country, began its field work five years ago in an effort to bring the jihadists to justice. "For us,...
Six Iraqi Yazidis abducted by IS reunite with families
Jun 07, 2023 (AFP)
The rescue of the women, now mostly in their early 20s, had been announced on Saturday by Nobel Peace Prize winner and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad. There was ...
UN body faults US, other states over Guantanamo prisoner torture
Jun 05, 2023 (AFP)
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also hinted that the systematic use of Guantanamo to hold suspects rounded up in Washington's "war on te...
50 jihadists, 168 family members repatriated from Syria to Iraq
Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)
Iraqi authorities "received 50 members of the Islamic State from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)", said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The S...
Iraq lays to rest 78 killed by IS and found in mass grave
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
DNA testing was used to identify the remains of hundreds of people slain by IS after their discovery in 2017 at the grave site on the outskirts of Mosul, in the...
Iraqi museum damaged by IS works toward reopening
May 11, 2023 (AFP)
The museum closed its doors in 2003, amid the chaos following the US-led invasion of Iraq, and was later ransacked by Islamic State group jihadists after they s...
Air strike in Syria kills major drug trafficker: monitor
May 08, 2023 (AFP)
Drug dealer "Marai al-Ramthan, his wife and six children were killed in a Jordanian air force strike" in the eastern countryside of the Sweida province, near th...
Iraq court sentences to death killer of academic Hisham al-Hashemi
May 07, 2023 (AFP)
The sentence against Ahmed Hamdawi Oueid for killing Hashemi, an expert on Sunni extremism and a government security adviser, was handed down by a Baghdad crimi...
Belgium arrests Iraqi suspected of Al-Qaeda 'war crimes' in Baghdad
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
The man, identified by the initials O.Y.T., born in 1979, was detained on Wednesday when police raided an address near the city of Antwerp on orders of an anti-...
Swedish parliament adopts tougher anti-terror law
May 03, 2023 (AFP)
With 268 votes in favour, the law -- which criminalises "participation in a terrorist organisation" -- was adopted by Sweden's 349-seat parliament and will ente...
US blacklists Sri Lanka governor over war killings
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
A Sri Lankan investigation accused former navy chief Wasantha Karannagoda, among others, of abducting teenage children of wealthy families and killing them afte...
'Dead or alive': Iraq's Yazidis anxiously await IS-abducted relatives
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
Despite his efforts, five more relatives, along with thousands of other Yazidis, remain missing after being abducted by the jihadists. "We are still looking. We...
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