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Three US Marines back on duty after envelope sickened 11

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

Agents with the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) were still examining the envelope and its contents, which arrived late Tuesday at Joint ...

France says it foiled two terror attacks this year

Feb 25, 2018 (AFP)

Paris is still on its highest level of alert after a string of Islamist attacks over the last three years. "Since January 1, we have foiled two planned attacks ...

Iraq condemns 15 Turkish women to death for belonging to IS

Feb 25, 2018 (AFP)

Another Turkish woman accused of joining the jihadist group was given a life sentence, the official said, adding they had all acknowledged the charges against t...

Another Marawi possible, Philippine rebel chief warns

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

Murad Ebrahim has billed his Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which has made peace with the government, as a rival to IS for the hearts and minds of angry ...

Pentagon hopes Guantanamo inmate will 'soon' go to Saudi Arabia

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

Saudi citizen Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi has cooperated with the government since entering his plea as part of a deal four years ago, and authorities sa...

Iraq to deport suspected French jihadist who served sentence

Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)

Melina Boughedir, 27, was arrested last summer in former Islamic State group stronghold Mosul with her four children, three of whom have been repatriated to Fra...

Iraq court convicts 'duped' IS foreign widows

Feb 18, 2018 (AFP)

The 12 women, 11 Turks and an Azeri, some of whom appeared in the dock nursing infants, were convicted despite their pleas that they had been duped or forced by...

Guantanamo trial of Cole bombing suspect halted

Feb 17, 2018 (AFP)

Military commissions judge Air Force Colonel Vance Spath halted the case, which could lead to the death penalty for Abdel Rahim al-Nashiri, in frustration that ...

Tunisia intercepts ship with undeclared military cargo

Feb 16, 2018 (AFP)

They said the vessel, which was flying the Panamanian flag, was carrying trucks, armoured personnel carriers and equipment for military camps. Also on board wer...

Jihadists looking to Egypt's Sinai for new home base: army

Feb 15, 2018 (AFP)

Cairo last week announced a major operation against jihadists across swathes of territory, including the volatile region which has been at the heart of a persis...

UK charges ex-soldier for terror training in Iraq, Syria

Feb 14, 2018 (AFP)

James Matthews, 43, is believed to be the first person to be prosecuted for terrorism in Britain for assisting a group helped by the British government. Matthew...

Tillerson calls on allies to focus on fighting IS

Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)

Tillerson spoke at a ministerial meeting in Kuwait of the US-led military coalition that has been fighting IS in Iraq and Syria, being held in parallel with a c...

Iraqi official says wounded IS chief alive in Syria

Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)

"We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist organisation that al-Baghdadi is still alive and hiding" in Syria's northeaster...

Pakistan army condemns seven 'hardcore' militants to death

Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)

Egypt army announces major anti-jihadist operation

Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)

The security sweep in the Sinai, Nile Delta and Western Desert near the border with Libya comes as the country prepares for polls next month in which President ...

Iraqi Kurds accused of carrying out 'mass executions'

Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)

The watchdog said the Kurdish peshmerga fighters detained Iraqis and foreigners at a school in Sahel al-Maliha, 70 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of second cit...

Al-Qaeda still going strong as IS crumbles: UN report

Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)

The report sent to the Security Council said that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen, served as a communications hub for the UN-designated...

OPCW probing 'all credible' reports of Syria chemical attacks

Feb 07, 2018 (AFP)

The accusations "continue to be of grave concern," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said. A fact-finding mission mandated "to est...

American IS recruits struggle with inexperience, culture clash

Feb 05, 2018 (AFP)

The study by the George Washington University Program on Extremism said that online social networks were more essential to Americans in reaching Syria and Iraq,...

Mauritania names commander for regional counter-terror force

Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)

Colonel Salem Vall Ould Isselmou will head operations in Mauritania and a section of Mali for the force of troops drawn from five countries in Africa's Sahel re...