Turkey issues arrest warrants for 18 Turkish nationals for allegedly giving financial support to the Islamic State (IS) group. Raids were conducted in 12 regions of Turkey as part of an operation centred in the capital, Ankara, and arrested 12 individuals. The Turkish government designated IS a terrorist organisation in 2013. Turkey issued arrest warrants … Read more
Islamic State group IS kills nine pro-regime fighters. Latest in a spate of attacks in the area claimed by the jihadist group. 30 Syrian soldiers and allied fighters killed this week. The Islamic State group IS has killed nine pro-regime fighters in one day in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Thursday, the latest in … Read more
Militants from the violent Islamic State (IS) group were killed in a confrontation near Baghdad. A paramilitary Hashd Shaabi unit engaged with IS militants late Monday in the Tarmiyah area. Iraq’s security forces have been conducting operations against extremist militants in recent months. Five militants from the violent Islamic State (IS) group were killed in … Read more
The global coalition fighting the Islamic State group met in Morocco on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to prevent the jihadists from staging a comeback in the Middle East and North Africa. The meeting was supposed to be co-hosted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, but Washington’s top diplomat … Read more
According to local officials and journalists, dozens of people were killed or injured in four blasts across Afghanistan on Thursday. In the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the first explosion ripped through a Shia mosque. According to the BBC, at least 31 people were murdered and 87 more were injured. The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for … Read more
At least 16 humans were killed with the aid of bomb blasts in two Afghan towns Thursday. counting in 12 at a Shiite mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif claimed Islamic State (IS) group. The wide variety of bombings in Afghanistan has faded for the reason that the Taliban again to strength in August, but the jihadist and … Read more
Three Islamic Jihad terrorists were killed by Israeli security forces during a raid in the West Bank on Saturday, authorities said, the latest killings amid a wave of violence. The bloodshed comes as tensions rise ahead of the start of Ramadan, the holy Muslim month in which unrest has erupted in Israel and the occupied … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Covid-19 tests came positive on Monday, after his meeting with US Secretary of the State Antony Blinken. Bennett, who met Blinken in Jerusalem on Sunday on the sidelines of a “historic summit” of Israeli and Arab diplomats, “is feeling well and will continue his schedule as planned from his home,” a statement … Read more
PESHAWAR: An Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan last week was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack, police said Wednesday. There have been warnings Afghanistan could become a recruiting ground and staging post for militants since the Taliban returned to … Read more
ISTANBUL: Turkish security forces detained Thursday 14 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) in Turkey’s financial and cultural hub Istanbul. The Ihlas news agency said police units carried out simultaneous operations in nine districts and captured 14 suspects, including 13 foreigners whose identities were not immediately clear. The suspects have been allegedly active in … Read more
Priyanka Chopra Jonas has revealed the “perks of being a Jonas” amid reports that she and her husband Nick Jonas are divorcing. She addressed her marriage while posting a clip from The Jonas Brothers Family Roast, which premiered on Netflix on November 23. Priyanka Chopra also discussed having children with Nick during her roast, claiming … Read more
KABUL: Security authorities in Afghanistan have arrested 250 militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) terror group over the past one month, local media reported on Thursday. “A total of 250 individuals affiliated with the IS, many of whom fled prisons, have been arrested over the past one month,” Tolo News television channel quoted the … Read more
BERLIN: Germany has repatriated eight women who joined the IS terror group and 23 children from northern Syria in the biggest such transfer since 2019, the foreign ministry said. “The children are not responsible for their situation. The mothers will have to answer for their acts,” Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a statement issued on … Read more
The UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for Taliban to facilitate safe passage for people wanting to leave Afghanistan, allow humanitarians to access the country, and uphold human rights, including for women and children. Thirteen of the 15 ambassadors voted in favour of the resolution, which further demanded that Afghanistan should not be used … Read more
In the wake of the evolving situation in Afghanistan, Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said on Saturday stressed that the world must not repeat the mistake it made after the soviet withdrawal. “This is the time for the global community to engage and not isolate Afghanistan,” he said in a tweet. The world … Read more
The US military said it had carried out a drone strike against a ‘planner’ of the Islamic State-Khorasan, the group which claimed credit for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport. “The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target,” said Captain Bill Urban of the … Read more
BAGHDAD: Unknown gunmen on Tuesday detonated seven power transmission towers in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk, the country’s Ministry of Electricity said in a statement. The attack took place near the town of al-Riyadh in the south of the namesake provincial capital Kirkuk, which itself located some 250 km north of Baghdad, and sabotaged the … Read more
