Al Qaida
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Al-Qaida's chief of global operations killed in raid: Pakistani military
World | Dec 06, 2014, 04:02 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan's military said on Saturday that soldiers killed al-Qaida's chief of global operations during a raid in the country's lawless tribal region, a man indicted in the US over a plot to bomb New
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Indian youths attracted to ISIS a matter of concern: Rajnath
National | Nov 29, 2014, 04:27 PM ISTGuwahati: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today expressed concern over the fact that some Indian youths have been attracted to terror group ISIS and said the government takes it as a challenge that cannot be left
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Gogoi asks Rajnath to set up anti-terror system for east India
National | Nov 18, 2014, 08:10 PM ISTNew Delhi: Worried over reports that al Qaida may carry out subversive activities in Indian sub- continent, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has backed a proposal that the Centre sets up an institutional mechanism for
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Heard Osama taking his last breath: Ex-US navy SEAL
World | Nov 13, 2014, 08:32 PM ISTWashington: A former US navy SEAL who claims he killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has said that he heard the world's most wanted man take his last breath after he pumped three bullets into
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Assam appears to be target of al-Qaida, JMB; Gogoi tells PM
National | Oct 29, 2014, 08:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: Assam appears to have become the target of organisations like Al Qaeda and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said as he asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi today to take up the
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Assam govt has proof of jihadi activities in state: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi
National | Oct 22, 2014, 08:08 PM ISTGuwahati: Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said that the government had proof that jihadi groups were active in the state.Referring to the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen of Bangladesh (JMB), the chief minister told reporters, "We
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Algerian Islamic militants behead French hostage
World | Sep 25, 2014, 07:47 AM ISTALGIERS, Algeria: An Algerian splinter group from al-Qaida has beheaded a French hostage over France's airstrikes on the Islamic State group, in a sign of the possible widening of the crisis in Iraq and Syria
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Car bombing kills at least 11 people in Baghdad
World | Aug 26, 2014, 04:35 PM ISTBaghdad: A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a busy Shiite area in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks to shake the Iraqi capital as
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Militants abandoning al-Qaida to join ISIS
World | Aug 10, 2014, 04:42 PM ISTWashington: Militants from groups affiliated with once feared al Qaeda network are abandoning their outfits to join the dreaded Islamist State that has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and been targeted in
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Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim joins hand with Boko Haram
India | Jul 31, 2014, 02:04 PM ISTMumbai: The Indian intelligence agencies are spending sleepless nights as it is believed that India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and Al Qaida-controlled terror outfit Boko Haram have joined hands to smuggle drugs in the
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Over 200 more Indians to return from Iraq tomorrow
India | Jul 08, 2014, 08:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: A batch of over 200 Indians will be reaching here tomorrow from the conflict-hit Iraq, taking the total number of compatriots who have come back to nearly 2,300.According to the Ministry of External
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Indian nurses in Iraq safe: Oomen Chandy
National | Jul 04, 2014, 03:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: 46 Indian nurses, who are in ISIS-controlled region of Iraq, are safe and efforts are on to evacuate them, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said after meeting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today.
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Iraq crisis: Fate of 40 kidnapped Indians in Mosul unknown
India | Jun 19, 2014, 10:11 AM ISTNew Delhi: The fate of 40 Indian construction workers who have been abducted by suspected Islamic militants in Iraq remained unknown with the government unable to establish any contact with the captors belonging to brutal
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Iraq Sunni militant group vows to march on Baghdad
World | Jun 12, 2014, 09:34 PM ISTBaghdad: The al-Qaida-inspired group that captured two key Sunni-dominated cities in Iraq this week vowed today to march on to Baghdad, raising fears about the Shiite-led government's ability to slow the assault following the insurgents'
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Al-Qaida plots comeback in Afghanistan: US
World | Feb 28, 2014, 03:50 PM ISTWashington: Al-Qaida's Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organization once the United States and international forces withdraw from the country, as they have warned they will do without a security agreement
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Iraq holding off on an offensive against al-Qaida
World | Jan 10, 2014, 06:33 AM ISTBaghdad: Iraq's government is holding off on waging an all-out offensive to retake two key cities from al-Qaida because of fears that civilian casualties could incite Sunni anger and push moderate tribal leaders to side
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Attacks across Iraq leave 15 people dead
World | Dec 21, 2013, 05:12 PM ISTBaghdad: A string of attacks across Iraq killed 15 people on Saturday, including a senior military commander, a colonel and five soldiers who all died during a raid on an al-Qaida hideout, officials said.Police officials
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Defendant in UK solider killing: I love al-Qaida
World | Dec 09, 2013, 07:41 PM ISTLondon: A man accused of killing an off-duty British soldier in a frenzied knife attack on a London street defended his actions in court Monday, saying he carried out the attack because he is a
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Attacks in Iraq around religious ritual kill 22
World | Nov 13, 2013, 07:27 PM ISTBaghdad: Attacks across Iraq targeting security forces and those marking a major Shiite commemoration killed 21 people on Wednesday while gunmen in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah assassinated the city's mayor as he was
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Senior militant leader shot dead in Islamabad
World | Nov 11, 2013, 09:07 PM ISTIslamabad: Gunmen on the outskirts of Islamabad shot dead a senior leader of one of the most feared al-Qaida-linked militant groups fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a Pakistani Taliban commander and an intelligence official said