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Children born to IS fathers not considered Yazidi: council
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
The Yazidi community once numbered around 500,000 members in the mountainous Sinjar region of northwest Iraq, but it was ravaged by IS's 2014 sweep into the are...
Afraid but unbowed: Sri Lanka Catholics pray for Easter bombing victims
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
The bells rang out at 8:45 am, the moment a jihadist suicide bomber detonated his device inside the 18th-century church on Easter Sunday, one of six attacks on ...
US says new airstrike on IS target in Somalia kills 3
Apr 27, 2019 (AFP)
Three IS militants were killed in the strike Friday in the Golis Mountains in northern Somalia, the US Africa Command, or Africom, said in the statement. No civ...
Sri Lanka troops join hunt for bomb attack suspects
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said the army increased its deployment by 1,300 to 6,300, with the navy and airforce also deploying 2,000 more personnel. "We are arme...
Sri Lanka detains new suspects amid frantic hunt for bombers
Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)
The Islamic State group's claim of responsibility for Sunday's strikes on three hotels and three churches increased pressure over ignored warnings of the bombin...
Catalyst renders nerve agents harmless
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
"Our work is part of an ongoing, multiagency effort to protect soldiers and civilians from chemical warfare agents (CWAs)," said Anatoly Frenkel, a physicist wi...
Sri Lanka attacks show Islamic State influence outlives caliphate
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
Over 320 people were killed in a string of deadly suicide bomb blasts on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka targeting churches and luxury hotels. Colombo said it believ...
'Saddest day' as Sri Lanka mourns blast victims
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
"We haven't felt this sad since the war," said 36-year-old Rashmi Fernando, who was attending a service at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, one of three hit in...
US slaps sanctions on alleged new IS financiers
Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)
The Treasury Department said it had pinpointed successors to Fawaz Muhammad Jubayr al-Rawi, who was killed in a US-led coalition air strike in Syria in 2017 aft...
US confirms killing No.2 Islamic State leader in Somalia
Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)
US Africa Command said that Abdulhakim Dhuqub was killed Sunday in the strike vicinity of Xiriiro in the Bari region. In the current assessment, the US military...
Air strike kills IS Somalia's number two: minister
Apr 14, 2019 (AFP)
"The air strike occurred near Hiririo village in the Iskushuban district of Bari region this afternoon where the commander Abdihakim Dhoqob and a suspected coll...
UN votes to shut down Haiti police mission
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
The 1,000-strong UN police force known as MINUJUSTH was deployed in 2017, replacing the full-fledged MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission, which was sent after a devas...
US, German defense chiefs discuss Islamic State foreign fighter issue
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
Washington wants European allies to take back hundreds of IS fighters from their countries who were captured in recent months in Syria. The alternative is to ho...
Iraqi troops destroy holdout IS media centre in north
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
Although they no longer hold territory, IS sleeper cells were believed to be hiding out in vast deserts and scraggy mountains like Hamreen, from where they have...
US resumes air strikes in Somalia after brief pause
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
The latest air strike was carried out on Tuesday near Jilib, in the Moyen-Juba region southwest of Mogadishu, and killed one Islamist fighter, the US Africa Com...
German IS woman on trial accused of letting Yazidi 'slave' girl die of thirst
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
Prominent London-based human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is part of the team representing the dead Yazidi girl's mother, but Clooney was not expected to appear i...
Who are the 12 accused French jihadists to be tried by Iraq?
Apr 02, 2019 (AFP)
No court date has been set, but the suspects will be tried according to Iraq's counterterrorism law -- which can dole out the death penalty to anyone who joined...
Uruguay minister, army chief sacked over dictatorship-era scandal
Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)
Vazquez dismissed Defense Minister Jorge Menendez and army chief General Jose Gonzalez after a newspaper detailed the evidence of a former intelligence officer ...
Harsh rules, violent punishments under IS rule
Mar 24, 2019 (AFP)
The jihadists applied an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic law across the swathes of Syria and Iraq that they captured in 2014, torturing or executin...
Islamic State: pioneers of the 'digital caliphate'
Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)
At the height of its reign over a vast chunk of Iraq and Syria in 2014-2015, the Sunni jihadist group had a huge digital footprint, flooding social media with s...
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