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  Al-Qaida's chief of global operations killed in raid: Pakistani military

  World | December 06, 2014 16:02 IST

  Islamabad: 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

  Politics | November 29, 2014 16:27 IST

  Guwahati: 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

  Politics | November 18, 2014 20:10 IST

  New 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 | November 13, 2014 20:32 IST

  Washington: 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

  Politics | October 29, 2014 20:48 IST

  New 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

  Politics | October 22, 2014 20:08 IST

  Guwahati: 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 | September 25, 2014 7:47 IST

  ALGIERS, 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 | August 26, 2014 16:35 IST

  Baghdad: 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 | August 10, 2014 16:42 IST

  Washington: 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 | July 31, 2014 14:04 IST

  Mumbai: 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 | July 08, 2014 20:18 IST

  New 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

  Politics | July 04, 2014 15:59 IST

  New 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 | June 19, 2014 10:11 IST

  New 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 | June 12, 2014 21:34 IST

  Baghdad: 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 | February 28, 2014 15:50 IST

  Washington: 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 | January 10, 2014 6:33 IST

  Baghdad: 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 | December 21, 2013 17:12 IST

  Baghdad: 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 | December 09, 2013 19:41 IST

  London: 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 | November 13, 2013 19:27 IST

  Baghdad: 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 | November 11, 2013 21:07 IST

  Islamabad: 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