Tag: Islamic State (IS) group

Some 22 troops were injured while nine other soldiers are missing, the army said late Monday, adding that the toll could still rise. The army had blamed the attack on ...

France is reconfiguring its posture in the Sahel after falling out with the military junta in Mali, the epicentre of a bloody 10-year-old jihadist campaign in the region. Mali underwent ...

Maher al-Agal was killed near Jindires in northern Syria, and one of his top aides was seriously injured in the attack, Pentagon Central Command spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn told ...

The airlift is the largest of its kind carried out by Belgium to bring back the families of jihadists from Syria since the fall of IS in 2019.  “Last night ...

Amid proliferating jihadist activity, insecurity has racked the vast, semi-arid Sahel region just south of the Sahara for years. “The Islamic State is on the offensive since the beginning ...

Kotey, a 38-year-old former British national, pleaded guilty in September, admitting his responsibility for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria as well as the kidnapping and torture of ...

A string of bombings rocked the country this week, with deadly attacks targeting a school and a mosque in Shiite neighbourhoods. Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that children were ...

“It was terrifying for us, a joke for them,” Nicolas Henin said at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a 33-year-old former British national. Elsheikh is accused of involvement in ...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on its Telegram account. The two assailants in Hadera, a city about 50 km (30 miles) north of Tel ...

The UN child rights committee ruled that “France has the responsibility and power to protect the French children in the Syrian camps against an imminent risk to their lives by ...