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  US-allied force takes Syria’s largest oil field from ISIS

  World | October 22, 2017 16:37 IST

  ISIS captured Al-Omar in 2014, when the group swept across large areas in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

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  After Raqqa, Donald Trump says US shifts to ‘new phase’ in Syria

  World | October 22, 2017 16:17 IST

  Trump called it “a critical breakthrough in our worldwide campaign to defeat ISIS and its wicked ideology” and said “the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight.”

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  Liberation of Raqqa 'critical breakthrough': Donald Trump

  World | October 21, 2017 22:54 IST

  Trump said anyone who supports ISIS will face justice as he formally announced the liberation of Raqqa and earlier the Iraqi city of Mosul – the two strong hold of this terrorist outfit.

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  Islamic State claims responsibility for Kabul bomb attack that killed 39, injured 41

  World | October 21, 2017 12:45 IST

  The group in a statement on its website says its fighter "Abu Ammar al-Turkmani detonated his explosive vest among the apostates" in the Imam Zaman mosque in western Kabul earlier in the day.

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  Indian-origin ISIS recruiter arrested in Philippines, NIA to quiz her

  India | October 21, 2017 13:16 IST

  Hamidon, who was married to a militant leader Mohammad Jaafar Maguid, was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of the Philippines on October 11.

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  US-backed Syrian forces liberate Raqqa from Islamic State

  World | October 17, 2017 23:20 IST

  U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa on Tuesday from Islamic State militants, a senior commander said.

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  Iraqi forces push into disputed city as Kurds withdraw

  World | October 17, 2017 6:28 IST

  The move by the Iraqi military and its allied militias so soon after neutralizing the Islamic State in northern Iraq hinted at a country that could once again turn on itself after disposing of a common enemy.

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  Two key Islamic State-affiliated militants killed in Philippines

  World | October 16, 2017 11:54 IST

  Leader of Islamic State group Southeast Asia branch, Isnilon Hapilon, was killed in a gunbattle with Philippine military.

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  US-allied forces begin final assault on ISIS in Syria’s Raqqa

  World | October 15, 2017 17:06 IST

  The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said the operation will continue “until all the city is cleansed from terrorists who refused to surrender.”

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  Iraqi Kurds send reinforcements to disputed Kirkuk

  World | October 13, 2017 19:53 IST

  Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ruled out the use of military force against the Kurds.

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  'ISIS, Boko Haram using sex slaves to lure militants, sex trafficking to fund operations'

  World | October 10, 2017 21:55 IST

  The promotion of sexual violence by the extremist group was a vital means of “attracting, retaining, mobilising and rewarding fighters” as well as punishing disbelievers

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  Russian airstrikes kill 120 ISIS militants, 60 mercenaries in Syria

  World | October 07, 2017 21:52 IST

  The Russian airstrikes destroyed an IS strongpoint in the town of Albu Kamal near the Syrian-Iraqi border.

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  Three ISIS sympathisers charged for plotting terror attacks in New York

  World | October 07, 2017 21:37 IST

  Three people have been charged with involvement in the planned attacks, which were to be carried out in the name of the Islamic State group during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in 2016.

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  Iraq says it has retaken northern town from Islamic State

  World | October 05, 2017 22:51 IST

  Iraqi forces have driven IS from nearly all the cities and towns it seized in the summer of 2014, including the country’s second largest city, Mosul, which was liberated in July.

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  Terrorism, race, religion: Defining the Las Vegas mass shooting

  World | October 02, 2017 22:51 IST

  The absence of information leaves many to fall back on a debate that has roiled the United States since even before Timothy McVeigh used a truck bomb against a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995

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  Las Vegas shooting: 64-year-old attacker was retired, had no criminal record

  World | October 02, 2017 22:44 IST

  The man who killed 58 people and injured at least 515 others at a Las Vegas concert was a retiree with no criminal history in the Nevada county where he lived

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  Will go to Yemen again if God wishes me to do so: Father Tom Uzhunnalil

  India | October 01, 2017 19:54 IST

  Uzhunnalil said he still had no idea about the militant outfit which abducted him from the charity home run by the Missionaries of Charity in Yemen in 2016.

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  Iraqi military preparing to take control of Kurdish borders

  World | September 30, 2017 17:22 IST

  On Friday evening, Iraq instituted a flight ban that halted all international flights from servicing the territory’s airports.

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  ISIS releases purported audio message from al-Baghdadi, calls for attacks on western media

  World | September 28, 2017 22:30 IST

  In the 46-minute audio recording, Baghdadi has called for attacks on Western media and references North Korean threats to the US.

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  Fate of 39 Indian workers unknown, says Iraqi PM

  World | September 17, 2017 14:58 IST

  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the fate of 39 Indians captured by the Islamic State group when the extremists initially overran Mosul three years ago is still unknown