Islamic State
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US-allied force takes Syria’s largest oil field from ISIS
World | Oct 22, 2017, 04:37 PM ISTISIS 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 | Oct 22, 2017, 04:17 PM ISTTrump 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 | Oct 21, 2017, 10:54 PM ISTTrump 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 | Oct 21, 2017, 12:45 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 21, 2017, 01:16 PM ISTHamidon, 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 | Oct 17, 2017, 11:20 PM ISTU.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 | Oct 17, 2017, 06:28 AM ISTThe 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 | Oct 16, 2017, 11:54 AM ISTLeader 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 | Oct 15, 2017, 05:06 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 13, 2017, 07:53 PM ISTIraq'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 | Oct 10, 2017, 09:55 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 07, 2017, 09:52 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 07, 2017, 09:37 PM ISTThree 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 | Oct 05, 2017, 10:51 PM ISTIraqi 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 | Oct 02, 2017, 10:51 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 02, 2017, 10:44 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 01, 2017, 07:54 PM ISTUzhunnalil 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 | Sep 30, 2017, 05:22 PM ISTOn 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 | Sep 28, 2017, 10:30 PM ISTIn 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 | Sep 17, 2017, 02:58 PM ISTIraqi 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