Britain to strip Shamima Begum of citizenship
Shamima Begum's fate has stirred controversy since she and two friends fled London to join the terror network four years ago when she was aged just 15.
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Islamic State
Syrian Democratic Forces announce ‘final battle’ against Islamic State
"After ten days of evacuating more than 20,000 civilians, the battle was launched tonight" to wipe out last remnants of organisation: SDF spokesperson
Tunisia militants get life in prison for attacks that killed 60
"A page has turned, but this isn't a trial that can satisfy the victims," she said. "There is a taste of unfinished business."
Area under IS control ‘less than a percent of original’: US-led coalition
The militant proto-state proclaimed by IS in June 2014 straddled swathes of land in Syria and Iraq and was roughly the size of Britain.
Australia admits its airstrike on Mosul ‘might have killed’ civilians
A total of 30,008 strikes against IS were carried out between August 2014 and the end of August 2018, with the Mosul campaign being particularly intense.
Russia dismisses Islamic State responsibility claim for deadly blast
No proof was provided to back the Islamic State's assertion
Islamic State ‘living its final moments’: US-backed forces
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said the SDF were making “great progress ... but the fight continues”.
Australia strips citizenship from alleged Islamic State recruiter Neil Prakash
SYDNEY: The Australian government has stripped citizenship from a man it believes is a top recruiter for Islamic State, Australia’s home affairs minister said on Saturday.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said Melbourne-born Neil Prakash had been central to Islamic State’s efforts in the Middle East, was “a very dangerous individual” and had his citizenship stripped.
“If given the opportunity Mr Prakash would harm or kill Australians and our country is a safer place for him having lost his Australian citizenship,”…
How Trump’s phone call changed the war
ANKARA/WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s declaration in a phone call with Tayyip Erdogan that he was pulling US troops from Syria has stunned Turkey and left it scrambling to respond to the changing battlefield on its southern border.
In the phone call two weeks ago, Trump had been expected to deliver a standard warning to the Turkish president over his plan to launch a crossborder attack targeting US-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, U.S. officials say.
Instead, in the course of the conversation Trump…
Hundreds taken by IS from refugee camp in Syria
BEIRUT: Hundreds of people were taken by the militant Islamic State group fighters from a displacement camp in east Syria during a jihadist counter-attack against advancing US-backed forces, a monitor said on Saturday.
The jihadists raided the camp on Friday, taking “more than 100 families” including relatives of IS defectors and of jihadists killed in fighting, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A number of fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) died trying to defend the camp in…