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Decrease in IS attacks in Iraq, Syria: coalition
Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)
The IS extremists in 2014 launched their self-proclaimed "caliphate" across swathes of both countries in a campaign marked by its brutality including mass killi...
Led by China, more countries targeting citizens abroad: US study
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
Freedom House in a report identified 854 direct incidents of "transnational repression" carried out by 38 governments since 2014. Twenty governments were respon...
'Witnessing catastrophe': Iraq preserves memories of IS reign
Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)
Now a research project is recording their witness testimonies for posterity. Omar Mohammed, founder of the Mosul Eye project, rose to prominence during the IS r...
Al-Qaeda confirms top figure killed in Yemen strike: monitor
Mar 05, 2023 (AFP)
Security and local government sources told AFP on Wednesday Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi had been killed, identifying him as a top leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabi...
UN chief urges nations to repatriate citizens from Syria camp
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
The sprawling and overcrowded Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in northern Syria is home to more than 50,000 people, including family members of suspected Islamic State ...
Top Al-Qaeda figure killed in Yemen air strike: sources
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, a top leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington regards as among the global jihadist network's most dange...
Sweden moves to toughen anti-terror laws
Feb 02, 2023 (AFP)
The proposed legislation widens the scope of activities that can be prosecuted. "This is a wider criminalisation that takes aim at a slew of activities within a...
Guantanamo 'high value' prisoner released to Belize
Feb 02, 2023 (AFP)
Majid Khan, captured by US authorities in 2003 and interrogated by US intelligence for three years before being sent to Guantanamo, admitted in a 2012 plea deal...
British Army serviceman in court for terror offence
Jan 28, 2023 (AFP)
Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was remanded in custody after his brief appearance in London's Westminster Magistrates' Court. London police said he was charged on Fri...
Myanmar military accused of war crimes in German criminal complaint
Jan 24, 2023 (AFP)
The case was lodged with Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor General under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows the prosecution of certain grav...
IS attacks still claim Iraqi lives five years after defeat
Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)
"I heard the shots, I went out and I saw my nephew lying on the ground," recalled Ali Menwar about the deadly violence that shattered the local calm on December...
German parliament recognises Yazidi 'genocide' in Iraq
Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)
In a move hailed by Yazidi community representatives, deputies in the Bundestag unanimously passed the motion by the three parliamentary groups in Germany's rul...
German lawmakers to recognise Yazidi 'genocide' in Iraq
Jan 13, 2023 (AFP)
Three parliamentary groups from Germany's ruling centre-left-led coalition and conservative MPs agreed to approve the motion in the Bundestag next Thursday, Soc...
Canadian arrested over threats to parliament, US and China embassies
Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police anti-terrorism squad said in a statement that the suspect had posted numerous threats on Twitter. "The threats targeted Parlia...
Timeline: Islamic State group's rise and fall
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
A little more than a year later, the jihadist group would also be defeated in Syria, where three of its leaders were killed, and reduced to a network of sleeper...
The long road to bring Iraq's IS jihadists to justice
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
"A lot of work remains to be done," said the UN's chief investigator Christian Ritscher, who is looking into a slew of IS atrocities, from murder, torture and m...
Syria confirms man killed in October was IS chief
Dec 02, 2022 (AFP)
The source, quoted by SANA news agency, credited the army and local groups with the operation that led to the death of IS chief Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi....
Outside of Syria, IS 'brand' survives leader's death
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
But the group, which had ruled over swathes of Syria and Iraq before being defeated there, still has active branches in other parts of the world, including West...
Timeline: Islamic State's rise and fall
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
- 'Caliphate' declared - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared in June 2014 that they had set up a caliphate, under the leadership of Abu Ba...
Russia, declared 'terror' state by EU lawmakers, batters Ukraine grid
Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)
The Ukrainian energy system has been left in tatters and millions have been subjected to long periods without electricity after weeks of Russian bombardments, w...
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