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Australia to strip citizenship for terror links: PM
May 26, 2015 (AFP)
Australia on Tuesday announced it will amend the law to strip dual nationals linked to terrorism of their citizenship for "betraying the country", but insisted ...
Canada federal police raid would-be jihadists' homes
May 26, 2015 (AFP)
Canadian federal police on Tuesday raided homes in the Montreal area of would-be jihadists who had been detained for allegedly seeking to join a militant group....
US warplanes scrambled after bogus jetliner threats
May 25, 2015 (AFP)
US warplanes were scrambled to escort an Air France passenger jet flying from Paris to New York on Monday, following one of several threats against commercial a...
Iran general says army needs more funds to counter IS
May 24, 2015 (AFP)
A senior Iranian military official told parliament on Sunday the armed forces need a bigger budget to confront the Islamic State group whose influence is growin...
GCC denies air campaign against IS has failed
May 24, 2015 (AFP)
The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday rejected claims a US-led coalition air campaign against the Islamic State group has failed following advances by jihadist...
Obama stays the course despite IS group's advance
May 23, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama's war strategy failed to stop Islamic State jihadists from overrunning Ramadi but he appears reluctant to change course despite the group...
IS cements grip on Iraq-Syria border in jihadist surge
May 23, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group consolidated its control of the Iraq-Syria border Friday after capturing an Iraqi provincial capital and a famed Syrian heritage site in...
US says air raid in Syria killed two children
May 21, 2015 (AFP)
US air strikes against Islamist extremists in Syria killed two children by mistake, officials said Thursday, marking the first time the American military acknow...
Syria's Palmyra in peril as IS seizes ancient city
May 21, 2015 (AFP)
Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be "an enormous loss to humani...
Ten nabbed in Canada's fight against radicalized youth
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
With a combination of new anti-terror measures and appeals to parents, Canada is striving to keep its youths from joining Islamist extremist groups and leaving ...
IS enters Syria's Palmyra, threatening ancient site
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
Islamic State group fighters recaptured the north of Syria's historic city of Palmyra Wednesday in another setback to efforts to repel the advancing jihadists a...
Despite US strikes, IS advances in Syria, Iraq
May 19, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State jihadist group has made several high-profile advances in recent days, despite a US-led air campaign against the movement in Syria and Iraq. He...
Iraq forces eye swift Ramadi fightback before IS digs in
May 19, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq's army and allied paramilitary forces massed around Ramadi on Tuesday, looking for swift action to recapture the city from the Islamic State group before i...
US-led strikes in Syria kill 170 IS jihadists in 48 hours: monitor
May 19, 2015 (AFP)
Air strikes by a US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria have killed around 170 jihadists in the past 48 hours, a monitoring grou...
Fall of Ramadi deals a blow to US-led war on IS group
May 18, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group's capture of Ramadi is a serious setback to the US strategy to defeat the jihadists and raises fresh doubts about the competence of its ...
US commandos kill top IS leader in Syria raid
May 17, 2015 (AFP)
US commandos killed a senior Islamic State group leader in a nighttime raid into Syria, American officials said Saturday, as IS jihadists seized the northern pa...
IS advances on Palmyra, Iraq sends Ramadi reinforcements
May 16, 2015 (AFP)
Islamic State jihadists advanced Saturday on Syria's ancient Palmyra after executing dozens of civilians on the city's outskirts, as Iraq dispatched reinforceme...
NATO, EU work to tighten cooperation against 'new threats'
May 14, 2015 (AFP)
NATO and the European Union on Thursday said they wanted to tighten cooperation in the face of "new threats" emanating from the assertive policies of Russia in ...
IS leader urges Muslims to move to 'caliphate': recording
May 14, 2015 (AFP)
The leader of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Thursday urged Muslims to emigrate to his self-proclaimed "caliphate", in the jihadist supremo's f...
Iraq says top IS leaders targeted in coalition strike
May 13, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq said Wednesday that a strike by the US-led coalition targeted top Islamic State leaders, including a man presented as the second-in-command, but the US mil...
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