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FILE: Islamic State flag. Picture: 123rf.com

Isis

Govt to cooperate with US to track down 4 SA citizens linked to Isis

By Kaylynn Palm

The United States Treasury Department has identified individuals in South Africa that it suspects are associated with Isis-related entities.

  • FILE: A woman walks through the central market in Pemba on 25 May 2021. Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado, has taken in tens of thousands of people fleeing from violence wreaked by Islamist insurgents across the northern province of Mozambique for over three years. Picture: JOHN WESSELS/AFP

    Mozambique jihadists kidnap 600 women, girls since 2018: HRW

    Women and girls were abducted during raids on towns and villages by the militants known locally as Al-Shabab, although they have no known connection to the group with a similar name in Somalia.

    160 days ago
  • A woman walks through the huts at the 25 de Junio camp for the displaced people in Metuge on December 9, 2020 where over 16.000 displaced from the northern Cabo Delgado area are now sheltered. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    UNHCR working to finding solutions to violence in Cabo Delgado

    This was prompted by concerns from the regional directors of several UN agencies during a recent visit to Cabo Delgado.

    481 days ago
  • Picture: Primedia

    SAfricans may be involved in Isis-related conflict in Mozambique: analyst

    Violent insurgency in the Cabo Delgado region has escalated in recent months. There have been rumours South Africa could send in its defence troops to assist.

    676 days ago
  • US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP.

    Islamic State '100%' defeated in Syria - Trump

    Donald Trump made the comment as he showed reporters maps of the region, one showing the large areas once held by the group and a second that showed the situation on Friday with no presence.

    1151 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Malaysia deports six Egyptians despite concerns over torture, rights abuses

    The suspects include five people who allegedly confessed to being part of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said in a statement on Sunday.

    1163 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 22 February 2015 Renu Begum, eldest sister of British girl Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London. Picture: AFP

    Baby of Islamic State teenager in UK furor dies

    Shamima Begum, whose first two children also died, was stripped of her British citizenship last month on security grounds after she was discovered in a detention camp in Syria.

    1164 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 22 February 2015 Renu Begum, eldest sister of British girl Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London. Picture: AFP

    IS teenager Shamima Begum will not be allowed into Bangladesh

    Shamima Begum, 19, left to join IS when she was 15 but now wants to return. Her British citizenship was revoked on security grounds.

    1180 days ago
  • FILE: A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State (IS/Isis) group in a tunnel that was reportedly used as a training centre by the jihadists on 1 March 2017 in the village of Albu Sayf, on the southern outskirts of Mosul. Picture: AFP

    Timeline - The rise and fall of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

    This timeline chronicles Islamic State's lightning rise, cruel reign and stubborn fall.

    1184 days ago
  • FILE: US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

    US pullout from Syria to be done in 'prudent' way: Trump

    The president has come under withering pressure both at home and in allied capitals after previous statements indicating that he considered the IS group vanquished and that he wanted US troops out of Syria imminently.

    1224 days ago
  • FILE: A soldier walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State (IS/Isis) group. Picture: AFP

    UK says still more to do against IS after US Syria pullout

    Currently, about 2,000 US forces are in Syria, most of them on a train-and-advise mission to support local forces fighting IS.

    1243 days ago
  • Syrians displaced from Deir Ezzor walk near tents at the al-Mabrouka camp in the northeastern Hasakeh province on 19 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    Thousands flee bombs and hunger in eastern Syria

    His family was part of a group of around 200 civilians who managed to escape from a pocket of territory in Deir Ezzor province that is still held by the jihadists.

    1251 days ago
  • Iraqi soldiers stand guard near the Iraqi city of Qaim at the Iraqi-Syrian border on 11 November 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Anti-IS coalition raids kill 36 civilians in east Syria - monitor

    Seventeen children were among the family members killed in Abu Hassan village of Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

    1276 days ago
  • FILE: An armed Malian military man sits on the back of a truck on 17 May 2014 after around 30 civilians and soldiers went missing following clashes between separatist militants and the Malian army in the rebel-controlled northern city of Kidal. Picture: AFP.

    At least 12 dead in Mali attack near Nigeria: sources

    About 200 people, many of them civilians from the Fulani and Tuareg tribes, have been killed in the area this year as militants claiming allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) clash with local groups backing a French security force and the Malian army.

    1328 days ago
  • FILE: An Islamic State flag. Picture: AFP

    What we can learn from Isis about using the internet to counter terrorism

    The fame of the so-called Islamic State (Isis) would not have been possible without the internet and the reach of broadband connectivity, even in bombed-out cities and towns.

    1335 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following a suicide car bombing in Rashidin, west of Aleppo, that targeted buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns. Picture: AFP.

    Coalition attacks on Syria's Raqqa may have broken law: Amnesty

    During its campaign to recapture the group’s Syrian capital, the coalition did not take enough account of civilians or take the precautions necessary to minimize harm to them, Amnesty said in a report.

    1441 days ago
  • A mosque in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, was attacked by a group of men on 10 May 2018. Picture: Reaction Unit South Africa Facebook page.

    [LISTEN] Verulam mosque attack: ‘It’s too early to talk about Isis'

    Radio 702's Bongani Bingwa speaks to Shannon Ebrahim, foreign editor at Independent Media, and executive director of the Afro-Middle East Naeem Jeenah Centre.

    1466 days ago
  • FILE: Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie. Picture: Facebook.

    Thulsie twins' case postponed again

    Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie were arrested almost two years ago after being accused of planning attacks on Jewish and American interests in South Africa.

    1490 days ago
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    [WATCH] US forces fighting Isis in Syria

    CNN gets an exclusive look into the war in Syria, with the US Special Forces.

    1554 days ago
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