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Blow to ISIS: Turkish-backed Syrian rebels capture Dabiq town from terror outfit
World | Oct 16, 2016, 07:16 PM ISTIn 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 | Oct 14, 2016, 06:18 PM ISTTwo 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 | Oct 09, 2016, 07:54 PM ISTThe 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 | Oct 05, 2016, 08:27 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 30, 2016, 11:27 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 22, 2016, 10:07 AM ISTIslamic 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 | Sep 20, 2016, 03:07 PM ISTA 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 | Sep 20, 2016, 11:35 AM ISTDemocratic 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 | Sep 17, 2016, 08:32 AM ISTA 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 | Sep 16, 2016, 11:10 AM ISTIndia 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 | Sep 14, 2016, 01:15 PM ISTISIS 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 | Sep 13, 2016, 10:36 AM ISTISIS 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 | Sep 13, 2016, 08:16 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 02, 2016, 02:59 PM ISTPakistan 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 | Aug 22, 2016, 10:09 AM ISTA 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 | Aug 21, 2016, 04:10 PM ISTFive 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 | Aug 16, 2016, 07:02 AM ISTRepublican 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 | Aug 15, 2016, 10:51 AM ISTRepublican 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 | Aug 14, 2016, 12:39 PM ISTDreaded 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 | Aug 13, 2016, 07:17 AM ISTHafiz 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