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US strike killed over 100 Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria: Pentagon
Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)
A US strike has killed more than 100 Al-Qaeda fighters at a training camp in northwestern Syria, the Pentagon said Friday. The air strike occurred Thursday at a...
US envoy to anti-IS coalition to stay on, IS loses ground, Libya air strikes kill dozens
Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)
Incoming US president Donald Trump will retain his predecessor's special envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, Brett McGurk, his spokesman sa...
IS lights smokescreen against regime raids in east Syria: monitor
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
Fierce clashes gripped the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Wednesday, a monitor said, as the Islamic State group set tyres ablaze to create a smokescreen f...
Fears of mass killings as IS advances in Syria's Deir Ezzor
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
As the Islamic State group closes in on government-held areas of Syria's Deir Ezzor, residents said they are terrified of falling victim to the mass killings fo...
Scramble to treat wounded after botched Nigeria air strike
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
Scores of injured people were airlifted on Wednesday to hospital for treatment after a botched air strike on Boko Haram Islamists in Nigeria killed at least 52 ...
IS gains ground near key eastern Syrian city: monitor
Jan 15, 2017 (AFP)
The Islamic State group gained ground around a key eastern Syrian city on Sunday, a monitor said, despite a heavy air strikes by government warplanes. The jihad...
Senegal to extradite Guinean soldier wanted over massacre
Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)
A Senegalese court has approved the extradition of a Guinean soldier allegedly involved in the 2009 massacre of more than 150 people in a stadium, his lawyer to...
Mauritania, Saudi Arabia strengthen military cooperation
Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)
Saudi Arabia and Mauritania will exchange intelligence and increase cooperation on military training and logistics, Mauritanian media reported Thursday. Maurita...
US air strikes in Syria kill Al-Qaeda militants: Pentagon
Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)
The United States killed about 20 Al-Qaeda militants this week in air strikes in northwestern Syria, the Defense Department said Thursday. US warplanes conducte...
US led air strike against former Al-Qaeda affiliate: official
Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)
The United States carried out an air strike in Syria that reportedly killed at least 25 members of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front including senio...
In Iraq, Hollande says IS battle prevents attacks at home
Jan 02, 2017 (AFP)
Western support for military action against the Islamic State group is key to preventing attacks at home, French President Francois Hollande said Monday in Iraq...
10-year-old girl used as human bomb in Nigeria attack
Jan 01, 2017 (AFP)
One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year's Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri,...
US military formally ends anti-IS operation in Libya's Sirte
Dec 20, 2016 (AFP)
The US military has officially ended operations in a former Islamic State bastion in Libya, officials announced Tuesday. The Pentagon had launched Operation Ody...
2016, the year the IS 'caliphate' buckled
Dec 16, 2016 (AFP)
Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Islamic State group's "caliphate" to a rump and decimated its fighters in 2016 but the organisat...
Jihadists' return from frontline a major threat, US experts warn
Dec 16, 2016 (AFP)
The IS group may be on the defensive in Syria and Iraq, but it now has thousands of foreign volunteer fighters who, once home again, will pose a major threat, e...
US blacklists alleged IS backer, money exchanges
Dec 13, 2016 (AFP)
The United States on Tuesday announced financial sanctions against money exchanges in Iraq and Syria and an individual financier, all accused by US authorities ...
Drone strike kills IS figures in Syria, some with Paris attack ties
Dec 13, 2016 (AFP)
A coalition drone strike in Syria killed three Islamic State group leaders involved in plotting foreign attacks, including two men who helped facilitate last ye...
IS retakes Palmyra after Syria army withdrawal
Dec 11, 2016 (AFP)
The Islamic State jihadist group recaptured Palmyra on Sunday after Syrian armed forces pulled out of the desert city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights s...
Malaysia police kill key Abu Sayyaf militant in shootout
Dec 10, 2016 (AFP)
Malaysian security forces have killed a key member of a Philippine Islamist militant group in a shootout in waters off Sabah in Borneo, the Philippine military ...
German minister says schools, jobs key to defeating IS
Dec 10, 2016 (AFP)
The Islamic State group will not be defeated on the battlefield alone but by teaching tolerance and creating economic opportunity, Germany's defence minister sa...
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