US-led anti-IS coalition admits 28 more civilian deaths
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq acknowledged the deaths of another 28 civilians, increasing the overall toll of non-fighters killed to at least 883.
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UAE to fund $50.4 million project to rebuild Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque
UAE will finance a $50.4 million project to rebuild Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, famous for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, that was blown up by Islamic State militants last year.
What’s left of ‘Islamic State’ in Syria?
BEIRUT: The Islamic State jihadist group, whose self-proclaimed "caliphate" disintegrated last year, still controls pockets of territory in Syria.
The organisation's fighters even took control of a small neighbourhood in southern…
Teacher tried to create ‘army of children’ to launch terror attacks in London
LONDON: A British supporter of Islamic State was found guilty on Friday of trying to recruit children he was teaching into an“army” of jihadists to help carry out a wave of attacks across London.
Umar Haque, 25, showed the children…
Iraqi court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining IS
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.
Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds…
Britain warns of Islamic State attacks in South Africa after couple kidnapped
JOHANNESBURG: Britain has warned of a threat of attacks on foreigners in South Africa after two British nationals were kidnapped in a small town there, but South African police said they had no evidence militants were behind the incident.…
Turkey kills at least 260 Kurdish, Islamic State fighters in Syria offensive
ANKARA/BEIRUT: Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in its four-day-old offensive into the Kurdish-dominated Afrin region of northwest Syria, the Turkish military said on Tuesday.
U.S.…
US ‘launches airstrike’ after apparent insider attack
KABUL: US Forces carried out an airstrike on an Afghan government militia after an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan sources have told AFP, killing as many as 13 fighters.
The incident occurred Thursday as US…
Defeated militarily in 2017, IS remains a global threat
PARIS: The year 2017 saw significant destruction to the Islamic State (IS), which lost almost all of its self-proclaimed "Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, but experts warn the group is adapting and continues to be a threat.
Within hours of…
US woman charged with using Bitcoin to finance Daesh
NEW YORK: US prosecutors have charged a New York woman with using Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies to send funds to the Islamic State group, also known as Daesh.
Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, was arrested at her Long Island home on Thursday for…