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IS fighters taking cabs to dodge air coalition strikes
World | May 24, 2016, 11:41 PM ISTIslamic State fighters are abandoning their off-road vehicles and using taxis in this northern Iraqi city to avoid being targeted by war planes from the US-led coalition
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Tunisia weighs new security approach as tourists flee
World | Jun 28, 2015, 02:41 PM ISTTunis: Thousands of tourists fled from Tunisia on Saturday after the country's worst terrorist attack killed 38 people including 15 Britons as the government struggles to prevent future jihadi attacks against the all-important tourism sector.New
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US condemns terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Tunisia
World | Jun 28, 2015, 08:59 AM ISTWashington: The US on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia, the White House said in a statement."Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous
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US admits it should have acted faster against IS in Iraq
World | Jun 18, 2015, 10:26 AM ISTWashington: US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter admitted that they did not act fast enough to prepare Iraqi forces for the threat posed by the Islamic State militant group."We ... determined that our equipping of the
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IS executioner in beheading videos identified: FBI
World | Sep 26, 2014, 10:42 AM ISTWashington: US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that it has identified the masked Islamic State (IS) militant who has been videotaped beheading Western hostages, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday.But Comey declined to