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  Will be meeting Taliban leaders soon: Donald Trump

  World | March 01, 2020 11:07 IST

  US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he planned to meet Taliban leaders in the "not-too-distant future", asserting that it was time that the war against terrorism was fought by someone else, particularly the countries in the region.

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  US-Taliban Peace Deal sealed in Doha: Main highlights of the historic accord

  World | February 29, 2020 21:13 IST

  The US and Taliban on Saturday finalised the peace deal after months of negotiation, to officially end America’s longest war in Afghanistan, that began in 2001 in the wake of 9/11 terror attacks

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  Iraqi forces capture 254 kg 'Jabba the Jihadi', Twitter finds Star Wars reference

  World | January 18, 2020 8:15 IST

  Abu Abdul Bari, an ISIS hate preacher was caught off guard when the Iraqi forces raided a suspected location in Mosul. Having caught him alive, the Iraqi military had a tough task at hand to transport the 254-kilogram ISIS sympathetic. The troops deployed flatbed to carry the terrorist.

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  'Love Jihad is a reality': Kerala church claims Christian women lured into IS trap for terrorism

  India | January 16, 2020 14:24 IST

  "Love Jihad is a reality" - That's what an influential Catholic Church in Kerala said, alleging that scores of women from Christian community from the state were being lured into the trap of Islamic State and used in terror activities.

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  Post Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi named new ISIS chief

  World | January 02, 2020 7:54 IST

  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was attacked by the US military, who announced in public, about the killing of the former ISIS chief. Baghdadi was killed during a raid in Syria's Idlib province. In a grainy footage, helicopters were seen firing at gunmen on the ground as they flew towards a compound where Baghdadi was hiding.

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  NIA, EU share best practices on combating ISIS networks

  India | December 04, 2019 22:06 IST

  The two-day workshop was part of the EU-India efforts to further strengthen collaboration between both sides to counter-terrorism and radicalisation

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  Afghanistan likely to extradite 13 Indian ISIS fighters

  World | November 28, 2019 14:48 IST

  India and Afghanistan had decided to sign the bilateral extradition treaty during Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani's visit to New Delhi on October 14, 2016.

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  ISIS claims responsibility for Mali attack

  World | November 03, 2019 7:28 IST

  ISIS has claimed the responsibility of the terror attack in Mali which resulted in deaths of 53 soldiers and one civilian.

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  Now, Muslim clergy roped in to fight ISIS online propaganda

  India | November 02, 2019 10:00 IST

   "A majority of 127 arrested ISIS sympathizers were following speeches of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik," NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal had stated.

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  ISIS confirms Baghdadi's killing, names his successor

  World | October 31, 2019 23:46 IST

  The Islamic State on Thursday confirmed the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US raid in northern Syria. The terror organisation has named Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi as its new leader and successor to Baghdadi. In a voice message on Telegram, ISIS also confirmed the death of its spokesperson Abu Hasan Al Mohager.

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  US prepared for any retribution attack by ISIS post Baghdadi's killing

  World | October 31, 2019 11:12 IST

  In US’ definition of long-term success against ISIS and other entities like ISIS is not the complete absence of that ideology, but rather its existence at a level where local security forces, wherever in the world it exists, can deal with it.

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  Injured US military dog returns to duty after Baghdadi raid

  World | October 31, 2019 8:37 IST

  Baghdadi's safe house in northwest Syria was stormed on Sunday by special forces along with military working dogs and chased the world's most wanted terrorist leader as he tried to flee. 

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  US releases video from raid that killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi

  World | October 31, 2019 7:38 IST

  Giving details of the operation, the American general said the US forces cleared significant debris from the tunnel and secured Baghdadi's remains for DNA identity confirmation.

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  Islamic State insider who informed about Baghdadi to get $25 mn reward

  World | October 30, 2019 14:53 IST

  Announcing the death of Baghdadi on Sunday, Trump said Baghdadi died "after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming" during a raid by the US forces in northwestern Syria.

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  Baghdadi raid was named after IS victim Kayla Mueller

  World | October 29, 2019 15:37 IST

  The 26-year-old human rights worker was taken prisoner by the IS when she visited a hospital while helping civil war refugees in Syria in 2013

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  Tunnel in which Baghdadi died had library, religious books, the Quran

  World | October 29, 2019 15:11 IST

  Baghdadi wanted to change his location, which was on the Syrian-Iraqi border but didn’t know how, sources close to Baghdadi said.

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  DNA samples from underwear, blood confirm Baghdadi's identity

  World | October 29, 2019 13:44 IST

  When Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan in May 2011, US forces had to send his remains off to an American lab in Afghanistan to confirm his identity via DNA.

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  Trump releases photo of dog injured in raid on ISIS chief al-Baghdadi

  World | October 29, 2019 7:47 IST

  Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said on Monday, "The K-9, the military working dog, performed a tremendous service, as they all do in a variety of situations. It is slightly wounded and fully recovering."

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  The tip, the raid, the reveal: The takedown of al-Baghdadi

  World | October 28, 2019 14:09 IST

  The daring raid was the culmination of years of steady intelligence-gathering work — and 48 hours of hurry-up planning once Washington got word that al-Baghdadi would be at a compound in northwestern Syria.

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  Great day for America, says US leaders after Baghdadi's death

  World | October 28, 2019 11:07 IST

  The ISIS leader was taken down by the US Special Forces during an air raid in his hideout in northwest Syria on Saturday night.