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Africa has become the new stronghold of ISIS after Syria and Iraq
News | May 17, 2023 12:54 ISTThere is a lot of ruckus about the film 'The Kerala Story'. Now The new stronghold of ISIS shown in the film has now become Africa.
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Islamic State militants kill 6 US-backed fighters in eastern Syria
World | September 12, 2022 18:07 ISTDespite their defeat in Syria in 2019, when IS lost the last sliver of land its fighters once controlled, the extremists' sleepers cells have continued to carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq where they once held large parts of the two countries.
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Outreach made to IS over Christian captives
World | March 01, 2015 20:02 ISTBeirut: Syrian Christian leaders and Sunni tribal sheikhs are reaching out to the Islamic State group to try to negotiate the release of more than 220 Christians who were kidnapped by the militants last week,
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Attacks kills 19 people in Iraq
World | February 22, 2015 23:59 ISTBaghdad: Multiple bombings, including a suicide truck bomb attack on Shiite militiamen, killed 19 people today in Iraq, as police found four bodies with gunshots wounds in the capital, officials said. Police officials said the
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Jordan to 'wipe out' Islamic State group
World | February 07, 2015 18:57 ISTAmman, Jordan: The Jordanian interior minister says Jordan is going after Islamic State group militants wherever they are and plans to “wipe them out completely.”Hussein al-Majali's comments, published Saturday, were the latest in a series
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France grapples with home-grown Jihadism
World | November 21, 2014 9:54 ISTParis: A horrified France was grappling with a new reality today in which hundreds of its citizens are openly joining jihadist groups and directly calling for attacks on their homeland.A new video from the Islamic
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Real cooperation needed to crush IS: Syrian President
World | November 21, 2014 9:42 ISTDamascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that "international cooperation" was necessary to crush the Islamic State group, which is the target of a US-led campaign."The region is going through decisive times" and the most
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New Kurdish offensive targets Islamic State group
World | November 20, 2014 7:15 ISTBaghdad: Iraqi Kurdish forces launched a new offensive today targeting Islamic State group extremists as a suicide bomber killed at least five people in the Kurds' regional capital.The operation came as Turkish President Recep Tayyip
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IS, Al-Qaeda come to agreement in Syria
World | November 14, 2014 10:05 ISTIstanbul: Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their
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Will fight to the last man, says IS group leader
World | November 14, 2014 9:15 ISTBeirut: The leader of the Islamic State group said it will fight to the last man, in a strident audio recording released today that was his first public statement since a US-led alliance launched airstrikes
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Barack Obama writes rare letter to Iran's supreme leader
World | November 07, 2014 7:05 ISTWashington: In a rare outreach to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Barack Obama has written a letter about the fight against Islamic State militants, a common enemy in Syria and Iraq, according to
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UN expresses 'deep outrage' at Islamic State group
World | November 01, 2014 7:29 ISTUnited Nations: The U.N. Security Council is expressing its “deep outrage” at the killings, kidnapping, rapes and torture by the Islamic State group in Iraq.A press statement on Friday evening notes that some of the
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John Cantlie, IS hostage, being used as war correspondent
World | October 29, 2014 10:25 ISTBeirut: A captive British photojournalist has been used by the Islamic State group to take on the role of a war correspondent in the extremists' latest propaganda video.In the video, made public on Monday, John
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Iraqi Yazidi girl who escaped from Islamic State group's captivity discusses ordeal
World | October 11, 2014 16:42 ISTMaqluba: The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally
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US hits jihadists in Syria, Qaeda threatens coalition
World | September 28, 2014 12:16 ISTDamascus: The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise, has threatened reprisals against nations participating in air strikes against the Islamic State group, denouncing them as “a war against Islam.”Group spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri said in a
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Western Muslims, troubled, rally against extremism
World | September 27, 2014 7:54 ISTPARIS: In tweets, in street gatherings and in open letters, moderate Muslims around the world are insisting that Islamic State extremists don't speak for their religion. Many are also frustrated that anyone might think they
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Britain joins fight against Islamic State group
World | September 27, 2014 7:32 ISTLONDON: Britain, Belgium and Denmark on Friday joined the U.S.-led coalition of nations that are launching airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq, committing warplanes to the struggle against the extremists.The European lawmakers flatly
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France: Hunt is on for extremists in beheading
World | September 25, 2014 12:05 ISTPARIS: France's defense minister says Algerian forces are hunting for the Muslim extremists who beheaded a French mountaineer over France's airstrikes on the Islamic State group.Jean-Yves Le Drian also said France, which has limited airstrikes
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Islamic State group calls for attacking civilians
World | September 23, 2014 7:30 ISTBEIRUT: The Islamic State group's spokesman said its fighters are ready to battle a U.S.-led military coalition, casting it as a historic clash between Muslims and their enemies and calling for attacks at home and
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Watch how ISIS militants are mocked on #Facebook & #Twitter (watch video)
World | September 20, 2014 7:27 ISTNew Delhi: In order to give a fitting reply to the brutal activities of Islamic State group (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq, the people around the world have started using an entirely different weapon called
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