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

Islamic state

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.

  • Prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam (L) sits as he surrounded by Belgian special police officers in the courtroom at the "Palais de Justice" courthouse in Brussels for the opening of his trial, on 5 February, 2018. Picture: AFP

    Sole surviving 2015 Paris attacker to take stand

    Salah Abdeslam, 32, is the only survivor among the 10 assailants who killed 130 people on 13 November 2015, and is charged with murders committed as part of a terrorist organisation.

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

    Thulsie twins convicted and sentenced following plea deal with State

    In the deal, the brothers pleaded guilty to some of the terror-related charges against them and were handed eight years and eleven years imprisonment respectively, minus the time they have spent in custody.

    100 days ago
  • Brandon-Lee & Tony-Lee Thulsie. Picture: Facebook.com.

    Thulsie twins sentenced after entering into a plea deal with State

    Brendon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie have been handed eight years and eleven years in prison respectively after Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng upheld the plea and sentence deal with the State in the terror case against the brothers.

    101 days ago
  • Brandon-Lee & Tony-Lee Thulsie. Picture: Facebook.com.

    Six years after arrest, trial against terror-accused Thulsie twins to begin

    Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie have been in custody since they were arrested in 2016 on terrorism charges relating to allegations that they were linked to the jihadist group, Islamic State.

    101 days ago
  • The house in which the leader of Islamic State Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi died, during an overnight raid by US special forces on 3 February 2022. Picture: Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP

    What we know about the death of IS chief Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi

    A day after the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi during a US raid in Syria, many questions remain on the operation and the jihadist group's future.

    104 days ago
  • An Islamic State group (IS) flag and banner. Picture: AFP.

    Biden says IS leader killed in US military raid in Syria

    A senior US official said the IS leader had blown himself up during the operation.

    105 days ago
  • Members of the Taliban delegation Shahabuddin Delawar (L), Amir Khan Muttaqi, and Khairullah Khairkhwa (R) meet with foreign diplomats in Qatar's capital Doha, on 12 October 2021. Picture: KARIM JAAFAR/AFP

    Taliban launch operation against IS in southern Afghanistan

    The operation against Islamic State-Khorasan -- the local chapter of the jihadist group -- started around midnight in at least four districts of Kandahar province and continued through Monday morning, Taliban provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi told AFP.

    184 days ago
  • FILE: Former French President Francois Hollande. Picture: AFP

    Ex-president Hollande to testify in Paris attacks trial

    Hollande, president from 2012 to 2017, was attending a France-Germany football friendly on the night of 13 November, 2015 at the Stade de France stadium in Paris when the first bomber detonated his vest, prompting security agents to whisk him away as two more blasts went off.

    190 days ago
  • FILE: Taliban fighters in Kabul. Picture: AFP

    Senior Taliban commander among dead in hospital attack

    A Taliban military commander in Kabul was among the fighters killed when his men responded to an Islamic State attack on a hospital, officials said on Wednesday.

    197 days ago
  • Taliban fighters sit along the roadside near Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul on 2 November 2021 after at least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack. Picture: AFP

    Deadly suicide attack targets Kabul military hospital

    There was no immediate claim of responsibility but a Taliban spokesperson blamed the group's hardline rivals, the Islamic State.

    198 days ago
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: Alexei Druzhinin/AFP

    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 Asia -- which Moscow sees as its backyard -- to stir up religious and ethnic discord.

    216 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 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.

    246 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on September 11, 2001, smoke billows after the first of the two towers of the World Trade Center collapses. Picture: Henny Ray Abrams / AFP

    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.

    251 days ago
  • FILE: Mourners leave candles outside of the Carillon bar in the 10th district of Paris on 14 November 2015, following a series of attacks in and around the city, leaving at least 120 people killed. Le Petit Cambodge, adjacent to the Carillon bar, was the scene of another attack, which killed at least 12 people. Picture: AFP

    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."

    253 days ago
  • Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces take part in a military training on 2 September 2021. Picture: AFP

    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.

    256 days ago
  • Police outside a supermarket in Auckland after an Islamic State-inspired attacker injured six people in a supermarket knife rampage. Picture: AFP

    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.

    257 days ago
  • FILE: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Picture: AFP

    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.

    258 days ago
  •    Afghan women hold placards as they take part in a rare protest in Herat on 2 September 2021. Picture: AFP

    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.

    259 days ago
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