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Kenya says it killed 19 Shebab in thwarted attack in Somalia

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

Kenya's armed forces said they had thwarted an assault by Shebab jihadists on a military camp in southern Somalia early Wednesday, killing 19 insurgents and sei...

IS lost a fifth of its territory since January 2015: analysts

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

The Islamic State group has lost 22 percent of the territory it held at the start of 2015, military analysts IHS Jane's said Wednesday, as US and Russian air st...

Two Canadian soldiers knifed at recruiting station

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

A man brandishing a knife stabbed two Canadian soldiers at a Toronto recruiting station before he was subdued and arrested, police said late Monday. The 27 year...

Iraq medics screen 800 people after chemical attack

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

Health authorities in Iraq's Kirkuk region have screened a total of 800 people since a chemical attack carried out by the Islamic State group last week, officia...

Desertions prompting IS to rely on child soldiers: Washington

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

The Islamic State group is relying more heavily on child soldiers as growing numbers of fighters desert the jihadist organization, the United States said Monday...

Algeria says IS-linked militant chief killed in army raid

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

A militant leader who joined the Islamic State jihadist group was killed in an army operation west of the Algerian capital, a security source said Monday. Moulo...

Trafficked Nepali, Bangladeshi women trapped in Syria

Mar 13, 2016 (AFP)

Nepali villager Sunita Magar thought she was heading to a safe factory job in Kuwait, but only when she landed in Damascus did she realise "something had gone v...

IS jihadists pull out of several Iraq towns: officers

Mar 13, 2016 (AFP)

Islamic State fighters retreated from several western Iraqi towns and towards the Syrian border on Sunday as security forces worked their way up the Euphrates V...

US troops in helicopter-borne raid in Somalia: Pentagon

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

US troops accompanied Somali forces in a helicopter raid against Shebab insurgents in Somalia, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. US aircraft were used in the...

Yazidi teen who escaped IS appeals for help for captives

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

A 16-year-old Iraqi Yazidi girl kidnapped by the Islamic State group, Nihad was raped by jihadists and then forced to abandon her baby to flee in a 14-month ord...

Syria, Russia strikes kill 20 IS jihadists in Palmyra: monitor

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

At least 20 Islamic State group fighters were killed Thursday in a wave of strikes by Syrian and Russian warplanes targeting jihadist positions in the city of P...

Coalition bombs IS chemical sites after snaring 'emir'

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

The US-led coalition has carried out the first air strikes on Islamic State chemical weapons sites, the Pentagon said Thursday, acting on information from a sen...

IS commander 'likely killed' in Syria air strike: US official

Mar 09, 2016 (AFP)

The Islamic State group's battle-tested equivalent of a defense minister is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in northeastern Syria, a US official...

US questioning IS chemical weapons expert captured in raid

Mar 09, 2016 (AFP)

An Islamic State operative captured by US special forces in Iraq last week is a chemical weapons expert for the extremist group, two US military officials said ...

Top IS commander targeted in coalition strike in Syria: US official

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

A top Islamic State commander, Omar al-Shishani, was targeted in a coalition air strike in Syria, a US official said Tuesday, without specifying his fate. The o...

Somalia Shebab disputes numbers 'martyred' in US airstrike

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

Somalia's Shebab insurgents said Tuesday that "several" fighters had been killed in a US air strike on their training camp, but disputed Washington's claims tha...

Five 'terrorists' killed in security operation near Tunisia-Libya border: ministry

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

Tunisia's army and security forces killed five "terrorists" in an operation near the Libyan border late Tuesday, the interior ministry said, a day after a deadl...

UK terror chief warns IS targeting 'Western lifestyle'

Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)

Britain's most senior counter-terrorism police officer warned on Monday of the risk of further "spectacular" attacks by the Islamic State group as it trains its...

'More than 150' Shebab fighters killed in US strike in Somalia

Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)

A US air strike on a Shebab training camp in Somalia over the weekend killed more than 150 fighters who were planning a large-scale attack, the Pentagon said Mo...

Little to show for in Boko Haram-IS partnership: analysts

Mar 06, 2016 (AFP)

When Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria last year, there were fears the deadly insurgency in northeast Nigeria would tak...