Islamic state
Putin: Islamic State fighters massing in Afghanistan
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said IS leaders in Afghanistan were seeking to project the group's influence across former Soviet states in Central...
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IS bride says prepared to face terror charges in UK
Shamima Begum was 15 when she travelled from her home in London in 2015 with two school friends to Syria, where she married an IS fighter and had three children.
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Ahead of 9/11, MI5 chief warns of new terror threats
Speaking ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Ken McCallum said MI5 had disrupted six 'late-stage' plots even during coronavirus lockdowns over the past 18 months and 31 in the past four years.
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Surviving Paris attacker says defendants 'treated like dogs'
In a rant from the dock, four hours after the proceedings got underway, Salah Abdeslam shouted that he had "never complained because after death we will be resurrected."
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Taliban push deep into Afghanistan's holdout Panjshir Valley
Italian aid agency Emergency said Taliban forces had reached the village of Anabah, where they run a surgical centre.
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New Zealand unable to keep supermarket attacker locked up: Ardern
The IS-inspired radical responsible for a supermarket knife rampage in New Zealand attacked seven people before he was shot and killed.
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IS-inspired attacker shot dead after New Zealand supermarket knife rampage
Six people were wounded, three critically, in the 60 seconds before surveillance officers opened fire.
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Taliban close to forming government as women protest
The Taliban say they are close to forming a new government as dozens of women held a rare protest for the right to work.
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What lies ahead for Afghanistan under the Taliban?
Many are afraid the group will once again impose their harsh interpretation of Islamic law seen during their 1996-2001 regime.
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Rockets fly in Kabul as US evacuations wind down
Biden had warned more attacks were highly likely and the United States said it carried out an air strike on Sunday night in Kabul on an explosives-laden vehicle.
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Macron warns against IS as Afghanistan overshadows Iraq summit
French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the threat the Islamic State group poses ahead of an Iraqi summit Saturday overshadowed by the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
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Biden to Kabul attackers: 'We will hunt you down and make you pay'
US President Joe Biden spoke on 26 August 2021 following attacks near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. #Kabul #Biden
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Islamic State suicide bombers kill scores at Kabul airport
The bombings, claimed by the Islamic State group, left scenes of carnage outside the airport where thousands of Afghans desperate to flee their country had massed despite a flurry of foreign government warnings - made just hours before - that a major terror attack was imminent.
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Iraq reels as 36 killed in IS suicide blast on eve of Eid festival
The bloody carnage Monday evening, one of the deadliest attacks in years in the war-scarred country, killed mostly women and children on the eve of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice.
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Ramaphosa arrives in Mozambique for SADC summit on insurgent attacks
Heads of state and government in the southern African region are set to plan the way forward after insurgents attacked Cabo Delgado again last month.
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Besieged Mozambique town deserted as Islamic State group claims control
IS-linked militants attacked the town on Wednesday, escalating an Islamist insurgency that has spread steadily across northern Mozambique since 2017.
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Electricity restored in Nigerian city two months after jihadist attack
The attack on January 26 was the third time in a month that militants from the IS-linked Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group had plunged the city into darkness.
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Slow aid response to Mozambique risks fuelling insurgency: UNHCR
Jihadists, known locally as Al-Shabab and affiliated to the Islamic State group, have wreaked havoc in the gas-rich but deeply impoverished Cabo Delgado province since 2017.
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Eastern Libya forces say arrested top Islamic State figure
Abu Omar was among the top IS leaders in Libya when the group took control of the central coastal city of Sirte in 2015, the statement added.
