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  Baghdadi's death major victory in defeating ISIS: US Defense Secy

  World | October 28, 2019 10:58 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. Esper was part of a small group of people who were aware of the top-secret operation and watched the raid live form the Situation Room of the White House.

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  Satellite images show location where ISIS chief Al-Baghdadi was killed

  World | October 28, 2019 11:33 IST

  The raid was carried out in a compound near Barisha village of Idlib. Satellite images show the compound where Baghdadi breathed his last.

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  Baghdadi died inside a tunnel like a dog, like a coward: Trump

  World | October 28, 2019 11:19 IST

  Trump told reporters Baghdadi was under surveillance for a couple of weeks and that two to three planned missions were scrapped before the successful one was launched. The US flew over certain Russian airspace during the mission, he said.

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  New ISIS leader has been named, Abdullah Qardash takes over

  World | October 28, 2019 7:31 IST

  Abdullah Qardash, also known as Hajji Abdullah al-Afari, will now take charge of the ISIS. Qardash is the same man handpicked by Baghdadi to run 'Muslim affairs' for ISIS.

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  ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, confirms Donald Trump

  World | October 27, 2019 19:15 IST

  US President Donald Trump has confirmed that chief of Islamic State (IS or ISIS) Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been killed.

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  Timeline of the rise and fall of the Islamic State group

  World | October 27, 2019 17:13 IST

  The Islamic State group erupted from the chaos of Syria and Iraq's conflicts and swiftly did what no Islamic militant group had done before, conquering a giant stretch of territory and declaring itself a "caliphate."

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  Top 10 Indian states with ISIS sympathisers

  India | October 27, 2019 13:30 IST

  Most of the modules were groupings of self-grown IS sympathisers, but the common link among all was that they were being handled by foreign-based propagators of the terror group and its 'Caliphate', which commanded a territory nearly as large as the UK at some point in 2015, spanning the geographies of both Iraq and Syria.

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  IS uses Internet to radicalise, recruit sympathisers

  India | October 27, 2019 12:27 IST

  India's leading anti-terror arm, National Investigation Agency (NIA), has found that the Internet has played a significant role in the radicalisation and recruitment of foreign fighters and it has continued to do so.  

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  Why ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi's death is significant

  World | October 27, 2019 12:28 IST

  On Saturday, Baghdadi was killed in a top-secret US special forces raid in Syria's Idlib province. Indiatvnews.com takes a look at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's track record and why his death could be significant in shaping geopolitics in the near future.

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  Kamlesh Tiwari was on ISIS hit list. Here's why

  India | October 18, 2019 19:59 IST

  The murder of Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari here on Friday has taken a new turn with his wife Kiran Tiwari saying that a cleric from Bijnor was the mastermind behind her husband's killing.

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  12 Islamic State militants killed in Iraq

  World | October 10, 2019 7:04 IST

  The army raided an ISIS hideout northwest of Salahudin's capital Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, Abdul Muhsin Hatem, commander of Salahudin operations, said in a statement. 

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  Kurds fighting for their own land, not helping US: Trump

  World | October 10, 2019 7:01 IST

  US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Syrian Kurds, considered to be an American ally in the war-torn region, did not help the US in fighting against the ISIS. Trump says this while defending his move to pull out American troops paving way for Turkey to launch a military operation in invade northeastern Syria.

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  Jihadi Jack, first British man to join ISIS, spotted in Syrian jail

  World | October 06, 2019 19:20 IST

  On Saturday night, his mother Sally Lane pleaded for Letts to be allowed to return and face trial in the UK so that he can be rescued from the conditions in which he was being held, but the Home Office has dismissed her plea.

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  'ISIS Bride' won't be allowed to retrurn to UK: British Home Secretary

  World | September 29, 2019 20:35 IST

  Britain's senior-most Indian-origin Cabinet minister, Priti Patel, on Sunday ruled out the prospect of British Islamic State (ISIS) recruit Shamima Begum returning to the UK under her watch as home secretary.

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  155 Islamic State members, sympathisers arrested so far: Home Ministry

  India | June 25, 2019 15:55 IST

  A total of 155 members and sympathisers of banned terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) have been arrested in the country so far.

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  NIA arrests mastermind of ISIS Tamil Nadu module after searches

  India | June 12, 2019 23:45 IST

  During the searches, the agency seized 14 mobile phones, 29 SIM cards, 10 pen drives, three laptops, six memory cards, four hard disc drives, an internet dongle and 13 CDs/DVDs, besides one dagger, an electric baton, 300 air-gun pellets and a large number of incriminating documents, the NIA said in a statement.

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  Coimbatore: NIA conducts searches over suspected terror links

  India | June 12, 2019 10:49 IST

  Leader of ISIS module was also found to be friends with Zahran Hashim (Sri Lankan blast alleged mastermind) on Facebook.

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  Masked men carrying ISIS flags mark post Eid prayers on J&K streets

  India | June 05, 2019 16:33 IST

  Scores of masked men displaying Islamic State and Pakistan national flags appeared on Wednesday on the streets of the old city's Nowhatta area here in Jammu and Kashmir and raised pro-Pakistan slogans.

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  Senior-most woman ISIS operative says she helped CIA to hunt Baghdadi

  India | June 01, 2019 20:16 IST

  Leading international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has requested Sayyaf's transfer from Iraq to the US to face justice for her crimes. She told the UN Security Council in April that Sayyaf "locked them (the captives) in a room, instigated their beatings and put makeup on them to 'prepare them for rape'."

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  Kashmiri ISIS Jihadi In US Custody ,Mother Seeks Help To Bring Him Back

  India | May 31, 2019 22:07 IST

  The first Kashmiri man to have joined the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has surrendered and is in the custody of US forces in Syria, according to his family. His family and mother are shattered with the news and are now running pillar to post to bring him back.