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Top Iraq Shiite cleric demands release of kidnapped Turks

Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)

Top Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Saturday demanded the release of 18 Turkish workers kidnapped in Baghdad by unknown militants, saying ...

Thai police seek 'Chinese' man over Bangkok bomb

Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)

Thai police on Saturday said an arrest warrant had been issued for a "Chinese" man over last month's deadly Bangkok blast, backtracking after they earlier ident...

Australian aircraft in first mission in Syria: defence

Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)

Australian aircraft have completed their first operation in Syria, defence officials said Saturday, just days after Canberra extended the mission from Iraq to b...

Egypt military says two soldiers, 64 militants killed in Sinai

Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)

Egypt's military said two soldiers were killed Saturday during a widescale offensive against jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 64 militants on its si...

Killed in Syria, the French football fan turned bombmaker

Sep 11, 2015 (AFP)

From football matches to international jihad, the 25-year-old Frenchman David Drugeon converted as a teen to Islam and drifted toward ever more radical groups, ...

US intel analysts revolt over rosy IS assessments: Daily Beast

Sep 10, 2015 (AFP)

More than 50 US intelligence analysts have complained that senior military officials altered reports so as to downplay the strength of Islamic State and Al-Qaed...

Iraqi family's dream of Europe ends in terror, loss

Sep 09, 2015 (AFP)

An Iraqi family's dream of reaching Europe ended in darkness, terror and loss when two of their children drowned in the same boat accident that killed Syrian to...

Coalition destroys IS hub in massive blast

Sep 09, 2015 (AFP)

The international coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group bombed a key jihadist command and supply hub in the area of Ramadi, capital of Iraq's Anbar...

France, Britain raise stakes on Islamic State in Syria

Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)

France said Monday it had begun preparations for air strikes on the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, and Britain said it too was weighing the case for hitting at ji...

Britain kills IS fighters in Syria for first time

Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)

A Royal Air Force (RAF) drone killed a British jihadist in Syria last month who was planning attacks on Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. Th...

Iraq puts new F-16s into action against IS jihadists

Sep 06, 2015 (AFP)

Iraq has put F-16 warplanes acquired from the United States into action against the Islamic State group for the first time, the commander of the air force said ...

Australia mulls stripping citizenship for past terror links

Sep 04, 2015 (AFP)

Australia moved closer to stripping dual nationals of their citizenship for terrorism offences on Friday, with a parliamentary committee recommending it be appr...

Premature to talk about Russian military action against IS: Putin

Sep 04, 2015 (AFP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday it was premature to talk about Russia taking part in military operations against the Islamic State group, as the US...

Turkey votes to extend mandate for military action in Syria, Iraq

Sep 03, 2015 (AFP)

Turkey's parliament on Thursday voted to extend for another year a mandate that allows the military to combat Islamist jihadists and Kurdish militants in neighb...

'I want a blue-eyed Yazidi': teen describes IS slave market

Sep 02, 2015 (AFP)

Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves...

Half of Guantanamo inmates need indefinite lockup: Pentagon chief

Sep 01, 2015 (AFP)

About half the detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba need to be locked up "indefinitely," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday. Ca...

IS burns four Iraqi Shiite fighters alive: video

Aug 31, 2015 (AFP)

The Islamic State group strung up four Iraqi Shiite fighters with chains and burned them alive, according to footage posted online, the latest gruesome executio...

Jihadist hacker killed in US air strike was recruiter: Pentagon

Aug 28, 2015 (AFP)

A jihadist hacker who was killed this week in a US air strike in Syria was actively recruiting Islamic State sympathizers to carry out lone wolf attacks in the ...

IS kills two Iraq generals, jihadists advance in Syria

Aug 27, 2015 (AFP)

A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed two Iraqi generals on Thursday in the key battleground province of Anbar, as the jihadists made gains...

Military may have skewed IS analysis: report

Aug 26, 2015 (AFP)

The Pentagon is investigating whether military officials have improperly rewritten intelligence assessments to give a more optimistic view of the US-led campaig...