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  Blow to ISIS: Turkish-backed Syrian rebels capture Dabiq town from terror outfit

  World | October 16, 2016 19:16 IST

  In a major blow to the jihadists, the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces have captured the significant town of Dabiq from the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State. A commander of the Syrian opposition Hamza Brigade said

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  Turkish resort popular with British tourists hit by two rockets

  World | October 14, 2016 18:18 IST

  Two rockets landed near the Mediterranean resort of Antalya in Turkey hitting a pen ground and shelter used by a fishing company, said news reports. Nobody was harmed. Dogan news agency said the rockets

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  ISIS lost more than a quarter of its territory, articulates analysts

  World | October 09, 2016 19:54 IST

  The dreaded terror outfit Islamic State (IS) has lost more than a quarter of the territory it once controlled, suggests new data. Security and defence analysts say that the terror group’s control has reduced

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  Arrested ISIS suspects in Kerala had plans for a Nice-style attack; HC judges, top politicians were on hit-list

  India | October 05, 2016 8:27 IST

  The NIA has arrested a law student from Kerala’s Tirunelveli on suspicion of his alleged links with Islamic State. The arrest comes close on the heels of nabbing of six persons from the state over their links with ISIS.

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  US to send more troops to Iraq for Mosul battle: Defence Secretary

  World | September 30, 2016 11:27 IST

  The United States has decided to send 615 more troops to Iraq as the stage is set for an Iraqi-led battle to reclaim Mosul.

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  ISIS militants fire crude chemical weapons on US troops in Iraq

  World | September 22, 2016 10:07 IST

  Islamic State militants are suspected of firing a shell loaded with a chemical agent during an attack on US and Iraqi troops in northern region, a Pentagon spokesman said.

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  Ridiculous to say United States created Islamic State: Top official

  World | September 20, 2016 15:07 IST

  A senior US State Department official has rejected reports suggesting that the policies administered by the Obama administration in Iraq led to the creation of dreaded terror group Islamic State.

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  Donald Trump gives ‘aid and comfort’ to ISIS recruiters: Hillary Clinton

  World | September 20, 2016 11:35 IST

  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has accused her rival and Republican’s candidate Donald Trump of giving ‘aid and comfort’ to the recruiters of terror group Islamic State.

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  ISIS ‘minister of information’ killed in airstrike in Syria: Pentagon

  World | September 17, 2016 8:32 IST

  A senior Islamic State operative, considered the terror group’s information minister, was killed in a coalition airstrike in Syria.

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  Terror: India fourth worst-affected country, Maoists fourth deadliest outfit, says reports

  India | September 16, 2016 11:10 IST

  India witnessed a total of 791 terror attacks in 2015, of which 43 per cent were carried out by Naxalites, in which 289 people died.

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  ISIS ‘celebrates Eid’ by hanging ‘US spies’ from meat hooks and ‘butchering them like sheep’

  World | September 14, 2016 13:15 IST

  ISIS released a new execution video in which they hung prisoners upside down from meat hooks and ‘butchered them like sheep’.

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  22 missing Keralites reached Afghanistan in July to join ISIS

  India | September 13, 2016 10:36 IST

  ISIS sympathiser Yasmin Mohd Zahid has revealed that 22 missing Keralites, who left India to join the Islamic State, are learnt to have reached ‘the caliphate’ in Afghanistan in the first week of July.

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  Islamic State leader al-Adnani killed in US air strike, confirms Pentagon

  World | September 13, 2016 8:16 IST

  The Pentagon on Monday confirmed that a US air strike killed Islamic State spokesman and chief strategist Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, who laid out the blueprint for the extremist group's attacks against the West, in northern Syria last month.

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  ISIS bid to expand network foiled, claims Pakistan

  World | September 02, 2016 14:59 IST

  Pakistan has foiled a bid by dreaded terror group Islamic State to expand its network into this predominantly Muslim country. Military spokesman Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa on Thursday said that 309 ISIS suspects have

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  12 year old was suicide bomber at Turkey wedding, Islamic State 'likely perpetrator': Erdogan

  World | August 22, 2016 10:09 IST

  A 12 year old child was the suicide bomber who killed at least 51 people and wounded nearly 70 others at a wedding in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, decrying the attack

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  Mumbai businessman’s son, along with his wife, daughter and two cousins joined ISIS in June

  India | August 21, 2016 16:10 IST

  Five members of a Mumbai-based businessman’s family have reportedly left the country to join the Islamic State terror outfit in June.

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  Will call international meet to halt spread of radical Islam, says Donald Trump

  World | August 16, 2016 7:02 IST

  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that he will institute ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants and establish a new ‘commission on radical Islam’ if he wins the US election in November.

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  Donald Trump to unveil plan for defeating ISIS, other terror groups

  World | August 15, 2016 10:51 IST

  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will today lay out his strategy for defeating the Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.

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  Islamic preacher with alleged IS links taken into custody

  India | August 14, 2016 12:39 IST

  Dreaded terror group Islamic State is making all efforts to make its presence in India, the number of arrests in a last few months indicates. An Islamic preacher from nearby Panur has been taken into

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  Top Islamic State leader in Pakistan, Afghanistan killed in US drone strike: Pentagon

  World | August 13, 2016 7:17 IST

  Hafiz Saeed Khan, the leader of Islamic State group in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike on July 26, claims a Pentagon spokesman on Friday. Gordon Trowbridge, deputy press secretary, said Hafiz died