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  Turkey captures slain ISIS chief al-Baghdadi's sister in Syria

  World | November 05, 2019 8:41 IST

  Sister of slain ISIS chief al-Baghdadi has been captured by Turkish forces in Syria. At the time of detention, al-Baghdadi's sister Rasmiya Awad was accompanied by five children. Interrogations with her husband and daughter-in-law are underway. Baghdadi was killed in US raid in Syria's northwestern province, on October 27.

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  NIA raids 6 TN places to nab IS-like group

  India | October 31, 2019 13:15 IST

  An NIA source said that the anti-terror probe agency was carrying searches at six locations including two locations at Kovai beside one each in Elayangudi, Trichy, Kayalpattinam and Nagapattinam.

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  Slain IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi buried at sea by US military

  World | October 29, 2019 17:30 IST

  The United States military has buried the body of Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at sea, said reports in the international media. Baghdadi's burial at sea resembles that of Osama Bin Laden after he was killed by US military on May 2, 2011.

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  CIA got initial tip-off from one of Baghdadi's wives and a courier: NY

  World | October 28, 2019 23:34 IST

  The CIA got the tip-off about the possible location of the elusive ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi some months ago when one of his wives and a courier were arrested and interrogated, according to the New York Times.

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  Islamic State still poses threat after death of al-Baghdadi

  World | October 28, 2019 13:26 IST

  Eliminating the Islamic State’s elusive leader gives President Donald Trump a new argument for leaving Syria, but the U.S. military campaign against the extremists is far from finished.  

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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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  IS tried for foothold in UP during 2016-17: Report

  India | October 27, 2019 16:39 IST

  It was May 2016 when a purported ISIS video threatening to unleash terror in Uttar Pradesh left security agencies in tizzy and the state police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) launched a massive exercise to counter any terror activities in the state.

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  Here's why IS failed to find ground in Jammu and Kashmir

  India | October 27, 2019 13:50 IST

  Over five months from the time of the claim, there was still no evidence of the Sunni jihadi group establishing any foothold in Jammu and Kashmir.

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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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  From IS camp, Syrian family returns home to a hostile city

  World | September 22, 2019 18:05 IST

  The 53-year-old seamstress had returned from al-Hol camp, where 73,000 people, most of them families of IS militants, have been kept since the territorial defeat of the group in March.

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  NIA searches IS Ansarulla suspect's home in TN

  India | September 21, 2019 18:48 IST

  A search was conducted at M. Diwan Mujipeer's residence on the basis of warrant issued by a special NIA court in Chennai, an NIA spokesperson said in New Delhi. "During the search, three mobile phones, four SIM cards, one memory card many incriminating documents have been seized," the official said.

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  8 Islamic State militants killed in Iraq

  World | September 09, 2019 7:54 IST

  Eight Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Sunday in an airstrike by the US-led coalition aircraft in Iraq's Nineveh province while security forces captured nine IS extremists in Salahudin province, the Iraqi military said.

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  18 Islamic State militants killed in Iraq

  World | July 04, 2019 7:53 IST

  In Iraq's western province of Anbar, four IS militants were killed and their vehicle destroyed when paramilitary tribal fighters raided their hideout in Akashat area in the desert near the border with Syria, the media office of the Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement on Wednesday, Xinhua reported.

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  160 Islamic State members, sympathizers arrested across India: government tells Lok Sabha

  India | July 02, 2019 17:02 IST

  Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said intelligence inputs on terror threats are regularly shared with the state governments and agencies concerned with the advice to take appropriate steps and sensitize their field formations to prevent any untoward incident.

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  ISIS message on Navi Mumbai bridge pillar mentioning 'Dhoni Jannat mein out' sends police in tizzy

  India | June 04, 2019 23:20 IST

  ​Security officials went in a tizzy as some mystery messages purportedly praising global terror outfit Islamic State (IS) were found scrawled on a pillar of the Khopte Bridge in Uran area here on Tuesday.

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  15 Islamic State militants reportedly set off to Lakshadweep islands, Kerala coast on high alert

  India | May 26, 2019 7:39 IST

  Kerala was on alert after serial explosions ripped through Sri Lanka on Easter day. Investigations by the NIA had also revealed that Islamic State operatives had planned attacks in the state.

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  NIA raids 10 places in TN in Islamic State module case

  India | May 20, 2019 23:46 IST

  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches at 10 places in Tamil Nadu in connection with the investigation into an Islamic State module case, where few people conspired to raise funds and wage armed struggle against the state.

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  Islamic State enlarges footprint in Valley of Death

  India | May 20, 2019 23:42 IST

  As door 1 with Pakistan proxies supported by local hawks Hurriyat closes, door 2 with Islamic Caliphate written on it opens in what is a brutal cage match which has more or less eviscerated the lives of the Kashmiris in the Valley.

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  Indian-origin man guilty of trying to join ISIS jailed for 14 years in UK

  India | May 20, 2019 20:48 IST

  An Indian-origin man arrested a few years ago on his way to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and convicted of terror offences by a UK court last month was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment on Monday.