Islamic state
Govt to cooperate with US to track down 4 SA citizens linked to Isis
The United States Treasury Department has identified individuals in South Africa that it suspects are associated with Isis-related entities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
