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Over 2,000 Saudis fighting abroad with ‘jihadists’: ministry

RIYADH: More than 2,000 Saudis are fighting abroad with jihadist groups, with over 70 percent of them in Syria, the kingdom's interior ministry was...

US buys ads on Facebook to fight religious extremists

WASHINGTON: Social media has long been a key battlefield in the war on Islamic extremism. But the US has found this year that online ads...

US to send 560 more troops to aid Iraq’s anti-Islamic State fight

WASHINGTON: Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Monday that Washington will deploy 560 additional troops to aid Iraq's fight to retake Mosul from jihadists, deepening US military involvement in the country.

Truce in Syria’s Aleppo extended for 72 hours

ALEPPO: A temporary truce in the Syrian battleground city of Aleppo was extended for 72 hours from 00:01 Saturday, as clashes raged further south.

30,000 flee clashes between jihadists, rebels in Syria: HRW

BEIRUT: At least 30,000 civilians have fled fighting between jihadists and rebels in northern Syria in the past 48 hours, Human Rights Watch said, calling on Turkey to open its border to them.

Brussels, Europe’s jihadist breeding ground, now itself under attack

BRUSSELS: Brussels has become infamous as a hotbed of Islamic extremism because of links to a series of recent attacks in Europe, and now the Belgian capital itself has suffered the worst ever terror attack in its history.

‘Many’ fatalities in three suicide attacks in north Cameroon

YAOUNDE: Three suicide attacks Monday left "many" fatalities at a marketplace in the far north of Cameroon, a region often targeted by Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group, a security source said.

Turkey detains 68 Islamic State suspects in nationwide raids: report

ISTANBUL: Turkey has detained 68 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in raids across the country, state media said on Wednesday.

Trump shrugs off video that uses his Muslim ban remarks

WASHINGTON: After jihadists used his tough remarks about Muslims in a recruitment video, Donald Trump refused to back down, saying in remarks aired Sunday, "I have to say what I have to say."

Five million people need health services in Iraq: UN

UNITED NATIONS: The UN's health body said Monday that more than five million people need medical services in Iraq as it bemoaned a 70 percent gap in funding required to help.

IS jihadists attack Iraq base housing US forces

BAGHDAD: Iraqi soldiers backed by US-led coalition aircraft repelled an attack Friday by the Islamic State group on a base where hundreds of US troops are training local security forces, officials said.

Jordan executes two jihadists in response to pilot murder

AMMAN: Jordan executed two jihadist prisoners at dawn on Wednesday after vowing a harsh response to the Islamic State group's burning alive of a Jordanian pilot, government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said.

Air strike kills IS 'chemical weapons expert': US

WASHINGTON: A US-led coalition air strike killed a chemical weapons specialist with the Islamic State group in Iraq who once worked for Saddam Hussein, US military officers said Friday.

US-led airstrikes may have killed civilians: Pentagon

WASHINGTON: The US military is reviewing several incidents in which civilians may have been killed in coalition air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria, officials said Tuesday.

Tension escalates in Turkey southeast, three killed: official

DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: Three people were killed Saturday in clashes between Kurdish rebels and a rival Kurdish Islamist group in southeast Turkey near the Syrian border, a local governor's office said.

US-led coalition hits IS jihadists with 31 air strikes

WASHINGTON: The US-led coalition pounded the Islamic State jihadist group with 31 air strikes Friday, including more than a dozen in the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane, the Pentagon said.

Anger in Lebanon after jihadists say policeman killed

BAALBEK: Gunmen and protesters took to the streets Saturday after a Syrian jihadist group said it killed a captured Lebanese policeman to avenge the arrest of family members of Islamist militants.

IS jihadists kill 16 border guards in western Iraq

BAGHDAD: At least 16 Iraqi border guards were killed Monday in a dawn assault by the Islamic State jihadist group on their post near the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials said.

Suicide bomber kills 45 at volleyball match in Afghanistan

GARDEZ, AFGHANISTAN: A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a crowd of spectators at a volleyball match in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 45 people, a provincial official said, as foreign troops withdraw from the country after more than a decade of fighting.

Israel convicts Arab Israeli for joining Syria jihadists

JERUSALEM: An Arab Israeli citizen on Monday was sentenced to 22 months in prison for joining the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, Israeli court documents showed.
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