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US evacuates troops from south Yemen base: military source

Mar 21, 2015 (AFP)

US military personnel stationed at Al-Anad airbase in southern Yemen have been evacuated over security concerns, a Yemeni military source said on Saturday amid ...

UK court seizes girls' passports over Syria fears

Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)

A British judge on Friday barred five teenage girls from travelling abroad amid concerns they would go to Syria to join Islamist fighters, in the second such ru...

Anbar blast killed at least 13 soldiers: ministry

Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)

A bombing by the Islamic State group in the city of Ramadi last week killed 13 Iraqi soldiers, defence ministry said Thursday, denying reports they died in an a...

Italy beefs up air, naval presence in central Med

Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)

Italy said Thursday it would increase its military presence in the central Mediterranean, describing a deadly attack on a museum in Tunis as fresh evidence of a...

IS extremism fight may take a generation: Australia

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

The battle against the Islamic State group's extremism may last a generation, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has warned, likening the jihadists to fan...

Saudi forces wrap up major exercises on Iraqi border

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

Saudi security forces on Wednesday ended a weeks-long exercise on the Iraqi border where three troopers died in a January attack blamed on "terrorists." Border ...

Nigeria begins 'final onslaught' against Boko Haram: govt

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

Nigeria has begun the "final onslaught" against Boko Haram, the country's national security spokesman said on Tuesday, after the militants were ousted from the ...

US Air Force vet charged with Syrian jihad support

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

A US Air Force veteran allegedly sympathetic to Osama bin Laden and who became a Muslim has been charged for trying to join Islamic State jihadists in Syria, pr...

Syria raids on IS bastion killed scores of civilians: Amnesty

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

The Syrian government killed more than 100 civilians in a series of "ruthless air strikes" on a bastion of the Islamic State group last year, Amnesty Internatio...

France says Assad talks would be 'scandalous gift' to IS

Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Monday rejected any role for President Bashar al-Assad in Syrian peace talks, saying it would be a "scandalous gift" t...

UK teens arrested 'heading for Syria' released on bail

Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)

Three British teenagers suspected of trying to travel to Syria were released on bail late Sunday after being questioned for 24 hours on suspicion of preparing a...

US 'concerned' over alleged IS use of chlorine gas

Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)

The US military said Monday it is "concerned" about reports that Islamic State jihadists used chlorine gas in an attack against Kurdish forces, but it could not...

Iraq Kurds say evidence IS used chlorine bomb

Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)

Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan government has obtained evidence that the Islamic State group used chlorine in a car bomb attack against its peshmerga forces in Jan...

US does not want to see Syrian regime 'collapse': CIA

Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)

CIA Director John Brennan said Friday the United States does not want to see a chaotic collapse of the Syrian regime as it could open the way to Islamist extrem...

Kerry in Egypt for talks on IS fight, Palestinians

Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Friday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he is to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss the figh...

IS readies for Tikrit last stand but 'expands' to Nigeria

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

Thousands of Iraqi forces laid siege to jihadists holed up in Tikrit Thursday but the Islamic State group shrugged off setbacks by welcoming Nigeria's Boko Hara...

UN resolution needed for any NATO role in Libya: Spain

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

UN Security Council member Spain called Thursday for a deal to end unrest in Libya within weeks and said a UN resolution would be needed to approve any NATO int...

IS welcomes Boko Haram allegiance: tape

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

The Islamic State group welcomed a pledge of allegiance made to it by Boko Haram and vowed to press with its expansion, according to an audiotape Thursday purpo...

China convicted more than 700 for terrorism, separatism in 2014: court

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

China convicted and sentenced 712 people for terrorism, separatism and related crimes last year, the country's top court said on Thursday, saying such offences ...

Kosovo slaps ban on citizens fighting in Syria, Iraq war

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

Kosovo lawmakers on Thursday adopted legislation banning citizens from fighting in foreign conflicts in a bid to prevent young people from joining jihadist grou...