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Egypt jihadists vow loyalty to IS as Iraq probes leader's fate
Nov 10, 2014 (AFP)
The leader of the Islamic State organisation won the allegiance of Egypt's deadliest militant group Monday as Iraqi authorities investigated reports he had been...
Egypt's main jihadist group pledges allegiance to IS
Nov 10, 2014 (AFP)
Egypt's deadliest militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State organisation in Iraq and Syria, in a recording posted on its...
Obama says US troop increase in Iraq a 'new phase'
Nov 09, 2014 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama said Sunday sending more troops to Iraq signals a "new phase" in the fight against the Islamic State group, amid unconfirmed reports i...
Massacre taints leader's 'Saving Mexico' image
Nov 09, 2014 (AFP)
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's upcoming trip to China and Australia was another chance for him to flaunt ambitious economic reforms that have won him in...
Iraq investigating IS chief's fate after air strikes
Nov 09, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq was on Sunday investigating whether Islamic State jihadist group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in air strikes by US-led coalition warplanes targeti...
US-led airstrikes hit IS militant leaders in Iraq
Nov 08, 2014 (AFP)
The US-led coalition unleashed airstrikes near the Iraqi city of Mosul targeting top jihadist militants, officials said Saturday, but the fate of the Islamic St...
Father of 'dead' French jihadist speaks out
Nov 07, 2014 (AFP)
The father of a French jihadist who became an expert bombmaker and was likely killed in US air strikes in Syria has said his son wanted to "die a martyr." David...
Turkey walks tightrope over Kobane after peshmerga deployment
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
Turkey is pursuing a delicate but dangerous strategy after allowing peshmerga fighters to transit its soil to the besieged Syrian town of Kobane, fearing Kurdis...
Former Navy SEAL comes forward as bin Laden shooter
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
A former US Navy SEAL who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and once rescued a ship captain from Somali pirates revealed himself Thursday as the man who killed Osa...
Air strikes 'killed' French bombmaker in Syria: US
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
US air raids in Syria overnight targeted and likely killed a French bombmaker who was a leader of an Al-Qaeda offshoot accused of plotting attacks on the West, ...
Islamic State ready to expand beyond the Middle East
Nov 06, 2014 (UPI)
Today's hydra serpent of world terrorism is no longer al-Qaida or Taliban but the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, aka ISIS, ISIL or Daish in Arabic. Daish is n...
Better bomb-sniffing technology
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of carbon nanotube material for handheld sensors that will be quicker and better at sniffing out explosiv...
US-led Syria strikes hit Qaeda, Islamist rebels
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
US-led air strikes in Syria hit Al-Qaeda-linked militants and an Islamist rebel brigade in a rare expansion of weeks-long raids targeting the Islamic State grou...
Obama warns of long road in anti-IS campaign
Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that it was too soon to say whether a US-led military coalition has the upper hand against the Islamic State jihadist grou...
4 Tunisian soldiers killed in bus shooting
Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)
Four Tunisian soldiers were killed on Wednesday when suspected militants opened fire on a minibus carrying troops, the defence ministry said. Describing the att...
IS jihadists tortured Kobane child hostages: HRW
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
Islamic State jihadists subjected a group of teenagers from the Syrian battleground town of Kobane to a string of abuses, including torture, during six months i...
India pulls warships from Kolkata as city on 'terror' alert
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
India's navy on Tuesday withdrew two warships from Kolkata's port, a spokesman said, as the eastern city was placed on high alert for a possible "terror" attack...
Canada conducts first airstrikes on IS targets in Iraq
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
Canada conducted airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Iraq for the first time on Sunday, while reports emerged that the jihadist group had executed more tha...
FBI warns against against homegrown terror threat
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
The United States faces an increasing number of homegrown violent extremists radicalized online and inspired by jihadists in Syria to carry out acts of violence...
Yemen liberal party head killed
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
A gunman shot dead Sunday the head of a Yemeni liberal political party in Sanaa, his family said, as Al-Qaeda suspects killed 18 troops and captured 15 others f...
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