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Radical UK Islamist cleric Choudary released from prison
Oct 19, 2018 (AFP)
The 51-year-old was jailed for five-and-a-half years in 2016, and will serve the rest of his sentence under strict supervision orders having been released from ...
US strike in Somalia killed 60 militants: Pentagon
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
"This precision air strike was the largest air strike against Al-Shabaab since November 21, 2017," when air-dropped US munitions targeted one of the group's tra...
EU adopts new chemical weapons sanctions
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
The framework gives the European Union the power to impose restrictive measures on anyone identified as being involved in the development or deployment of chemi...
US Defense Secretary warns of 'tough fight' to oust IS
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
While the extremists have lost almost all of the self-declared "caliphate" they held across Iraq and Syria four years ago, Mattis warned that destroying the gro...
Bosnia arrests Syrian, Algerian migrants with weapons
Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)
It was the first time that police found weapons with migrants who have been passing through the Balkan country in growing numbers since the start of the year as...
IS leader Baghdadi, world's 'most wanted', sought in Syria offensive
Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)
There have been recurring reports of Baghdadi being killed or injured, but the elusive leader, whose only known public appearance dates to July 2014 when he pro...
'Etched in my mind': UN's Myanmar probe
Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)
Here are extracts from the speech delivered by Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar in Geneva, as he unve...
France warns against chemical attacks in last Syria rebel stronghold
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
Russia-backed regime forces have massed around Idlib in recent weeks, sparking fears of an imminent air and ground attack to retake the last major opposition ba...
'Zero' evidence Syria rebels will use chemical weapons: Mattis
Sep 05, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters as he headed for talks in New Delhi on Thursday, Mattis rebuffed suggestions that the US may facilitate a chemical attack, then blame Russ...
Iraqi court clears German-Turkish woman of IS links
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
Hadya Abdel Qader had been held without charge since her arrest by Iraqi security forces in Mosul, in a part of the northern city held by IS. The jihadist group...
US military says IS member killed in Libya air strike
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
The US Africa Command said it "conducted a precision airstrike near Bani Walid, Libya, on August 28, killing one ISIS-Libya terrorist," referring to the Islamic...
After stinging defeats, IS revamps to survive
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
Having lost all urban centres under its control in Iraq and pinned down to its last desert holdouts in Syria, IS has changed its administrative structure and sh...
Counting Islamic State members, an impossible task
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
Online, IS propaganda claims it is undefeated in what's left of its territory -- a small patch of eastern Syria -- which is a fraction of the land it once contr...
Preparing for chemical attacks with improved computer models
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
Horrified by the attack, but also inspired to do something useful, Kiran Bhaganagar, professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at San Anton...
IS chief Baghdadi urges 'jihad' in purported new recording
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
He also called for attacks in the West in the Telegram message on Eid al-Adha, which comes as IS has lost most of its territory in Iraq and Syria. It is the fir...
Nanobot pumps destroy nerve agents
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers will present their results at the 256th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest scienti...
US 'confident' master Qaeda bombmaker killed: official
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
Ibrahim al-Asiri is thought to have been involved in numerous plots including one on Christmas Day 2009, when a Nigerian man attempted to set off plastic explos...
Israel eases gun controls following lone-wolf attacks
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The shift in policy, announced by the public security ministry late Monday, means that up to 600,000 Israelis could apply for gun licences, a dramatic increase ...
20,000-30,000 IS fighters left in Iraq, Syria: UN report
Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)
The report by UN sanctions monitors estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 IS jihadists were based in Libya while some of the key operatives in the extremist gr...
Head of Syrian regime research centre killed: monitor
Aug 05, 2018 (AFP)
The pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper confirmed the killing. General Aziz Asbar was killed late Saturday along with his driver in the central province of Hama, the ...
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