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New IS video shows Kurdish fighters in cages

Feb 22, 2015 (AFP)

The Islamic State jihadist group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages. T...

US defence chief convenes anti-IS war council in Kuwait

Feb 22, 2015 (AFP)

New Pentagon chief Ashton Carter will hold talks Monday in Kuwait with top US commanders and diplomats to discuss the war effort against the Islamic State jihad...

France seeks Silicon Valley allies in war on terror

Feb 21, 2015 (AFP)

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve met Friday with Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter to discuss ways to thwart terrorists from using the platforms as ...

Syria Kurds, rebels advance into IS bastion: monitor

Feb 19, 2015 (AFP)

Syrian Kurdish and rebel forces, backed by US-led air strikes, advanced on Thursday into Raqa province, where the jihadist Islamic State group has its de facto ...

Qatar recalls ambassador from Egypt over Libya strikes

Feb 19, 2015 (AFP)

Qatar recalled its ambassador to Egypt Thursday following a row over Cairo's air strikes on jihadist targets in Libya, threatening fresh divisions among Western...

Kurdish forces repulse jihadist attack south of Arbil

Feb 18, 2015 (AFP)

Kurdish peshmerga forces have repulsed a major attack by the Islamic State jihadist group southwest of Iraqi Kurdistan's capital Arbil, officials said Wednesday...

Arab states to ask UN to ease Libya arms embargo: Egypt

Feb 18, 2015 (AFP)

Arab states will on Wednesday seek a UN resolution to end an embargo on weapon sales to Libya's internationally recognised government, Egypt's foreign ministry ...

New Pentagon chief promises 'candid' advice for Obama

Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)

Ashton Carter was sworn as the new US defense secretary on Tuesday and pledged that he and the top brass would give President Barack Obama their "candid" advice...

Egypt strikes Libya jihadists after beheadings video

Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)

Cairo has carried out air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Libya after the jihadists posted a video showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christia...

Egypt pushes for UN-backed intervention against Libya jihadists

Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)

Egypt called Tuesday for a UN-backed international intervention in Libya after launching air strikes on Islamic State group targets in the country following the...

Military chiefs in Saudi for anti-Islamic State talks

Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)

Military chiefs from around the world will gather in the Saudi capital on Wednesday to assess the battle against Islamic State extremists, diplomatic sources sa...

Libya raids turn Egypt's Sisi into key anti-IS ally

Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)

By targeting the Islamic State group with air strikes in Libya, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, having crushed Islamist opponents at home, has become a ...

Canada cost of fighting IS group tops $100 mln

Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)

The cost of Canada's six-month bombing mission against the Islamic State group in Iraq was estimated at more than $100 million, according to officials Tuesday. ...

Hezbollah says it is fighting IS in Iraq

Feb 16, 2015 (AFP)

Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, its chief Hassan Nasrallah revealed for the first time Monday in a speech beame...

US can't defeat IS with tepid Obama war request: lawmaker

Feb 15, 2015 (AFP)

President Barack Obama's request for congressional permission to wage war against the Islamic State group doesn't go far enough to defeat the jihadist fighters,...

Hundreds protest security law in Spain

Feb 14, 2015 (AFP)

Hundreds of Spaniards marched in Madrid and similar protests were called in other cities on Saturday against a government plan to toughen penalties for unauthor...

In battle for Kobane, US crews recount heavy bombing

Feb 14, 2015 (AFP)

American pilots call it "going Winchester." That's when a warplane drops every bomb on board. And air crews for the B-1 bomber told AFP it was not uncommon in t...

Prosecutions of suspected jihadists double in Morocco

Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)

Morocco prosecuted twice as many suspected jihadists in 2014 than in the previous year, the state prosecutor said Thursday, linking the rise to the conflicts in...

UN takes aim at Islamic State financing

Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)

The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at choking off millions of dollars in earnings from oil smuggling, antiquities traffi...

Iran commander Suleimani says IS 'nearing end'

Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)

An influential Iranian general who has reportedly been near the front line against the Islamic State group was quoted Thursday saying the jihadists are "nearing...