Islamic State (IS)

Islamic State cases: Indian investigators in Sri Lanka

Reflecting enhanced bilateral security cooperation, a team of India's counter-terror agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials is in Sri Lanka to probe two Islamic State (IS)-related cases which could have possible links to the April 21 Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people in the island nation.
3 French IS members sentenced to death in Iraq

An Iraqi court has sentenced three French citizens to death for joining the Islamic State group, the first IS members from France to be handed capital punishment, a court official has said.
Kerala put on high alert over 'entry of IS terrorists'

Kerala’s coastal areas of India were put on high alert after intelligence reports said that terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State are on their way to Lakshadweep in boats from Sri Lanka.
No IS existence in Bangladesh: Home minister

Terming the claim of Islamic State (IS) presence in Bangladesh a part of an international conspiracy, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan categorically says there is no existence of IS group in the country.
India arrests IS suspect plotting attacks in Kerala

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) says it has arrested a 29-year-old suspect linked to terror group Islamic State for allegedly conspiring to carry out a suicide attack in the southern state of Kerala.
Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings

The Islamic State group says it was behind a devastating string of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people on Easter Sunday.
Syria's struggle does not end with ISIS

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Baby of Islamic State teenager in UK furore dies

The infant son of Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria, has died, a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says.
IS teen's Dutch husband wants to head home: BBC

The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who fled to join Islamic State, wants to live with her in the Netherlands, the BBC reports after finding him in Syria.
Trump bars IS woman from returning to US

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is barring a US-born former Islamic State propagandist from returning home, making the highly unusual case that she is not a US citizen.
Shamima won’t be allowed to enter Bangladesh: Foreign Ministry

Affirming the country’s stance of zero tolerance to terrorism and violent extremism, the government of Bangladesh states that it will not allow Shamima Begum to enter to the country.
200 families trapped by IS in Syria, UN says

Some 200 families are trapped in a shrinking area of Syria controlled by Islamic State, whose forces are stopping many from fleeing, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says, calling for the families' safe passage.
Anti-IS battle rocks Syria

US-backed forces were locked in fierce fighting yesterday as they pressed the battle against the last shred of the Islamic State group's
IS claims responsibility for Philippines church bombing

Islamic State claims responsibility for twin bombings that killed at least 20 people during a Catholic Church service in the Philippines, the militant group's news agency Amaq says.
31 killed in suicide blast on Pakistan polling station

At least 31 people are killed and dozens injured in a suicide bomb attack on a polling station in restive southwest Pakistan as millions voted in a nationwide election.
Iraq holds first nationwide election since IS defeat

Iraq began voting Saturday in its first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State (IS) group, with the country hoping to shore up a fragile peace and rebuild.
More than 300 sentenced to death in Iraq for IS links

Iraqi courts sentence to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to the Islamic State group, judicial sources say.
39 Indian abducted by IS in 2015 killed: Sushma

All the 39 Indians, who were abducted by global terror outfit Islamic State (IS) in Iraq nearly four years ago, are killed and their bodies have been recovered, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says.
Teacher tried to create 'army of children' to launch terror attacks

A British supporter of Islamic State is found guilty of trying to recruit children he was teaching into an "army" of jihadists to help carry out a wave of attacks across London.
Sweden truck attacker wanted to avenge 'caliphate's' dead

An Uzbek asylum seeker who killed five people in a Stockholm truck attack in 2017 testifies that he wanted to pressure Sweden's government to end its support of a coalition fighting the Islamic State group.
Iraqi PM declares 'end of war against IS' in Iraq

Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi announces the end of a three-year war by Iraqi forces to drive the Islamic State jihadist group out of the country.
Iranian president declares end of Islamic State

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declares the end of Islamic State in an address broadcast live on state TV.
IS claims attack on Kabul TV station

Militant group Islamic State claims responsibility for an attack on a television station in Kabul, in which gunmen disguised as police killed a security guard and opened fire on staff, the latest assault on media workers in Afghanistan.
ISIS claims responsibility for New York truck attack

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the truck attack in Manhattan that killed eight people, the militant group’s online publication says.
Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of 'ISIS fighters'

Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters in a camp after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said.
IS claims attack on Iraq embassy in Kabul

A suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Iraqi embassy in Kabul and militants breach the compound, Afghan officials say, in a complex hours-long attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
‘IS recruiter targets youths from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka’

A fugitive chief recruiter of the Islamic State in the Indian subcontinent has targeted youths from three countries -- India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka -- to involve them with the global terror outfit.
Russia claims to have killed IS leader Baghdadi

Russia's Defense Ministry says it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in late May.
Number of IS fighters killed by US bomb jumps to 90

The number of Islamic State fighters killed by a massive US bomb in eastern Afghanistan has nearly tripled to at least 90, Afghan officials say.
US drops 'mother of all bombs' on IS in Afghanistan

The United States dropps a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan today against a series of caves used by Islamic State militants, the military say.