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Islamic State group announces death of leader Hashimi al-Qurashi, replacem
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Wednesday said that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement.
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4 IS militants killed in airstrike in W Iraq: military
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Four militants of the Islamic State (IS) group, including the group's leader in Anbar Province, were killed on Sunday in an airstrike in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said.
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8 IS militants killed in Iraq: military
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Eight militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group, believed to be local group leaders, were killed on Tuesday by the Iraqi military in a rural area north of the capital Baghdad, the military said.
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Pakistan security forces seize huge cache of weapons in South Waziristan p
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Sarwakai [Pakistan], January 23 (ANI): Pakistan Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Sarwakai area of South Waziristan district and recovered a huge cache of weapons in the process.
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German court sentences IS bride to 10 years in prison over war crime
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], October 26 (ANI): A German woman who had joined the Islamic State group in 2013, was sentenced to ten years in prison over a war crime by a Munich court on Monday.
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Islamic State group claims responsibility of mosque attack in Afghanistan
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 16 (ANI): The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the deadly mosque attack in southern Afghanistan that killed dozens of people in a Shia mosque.
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Attackers killed in Indonesia church blast linked to terror group
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 29 (ANI): Indonesian police have said the suicide bombers who died in a blast outside a Roman Catholic church on Sulawesi Island on Sunday were a man and woman who were members of a Muslim terrorist network linked to the Islamic State group.
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Pak-Afghan Hazara Shias become prime target of Sunni extremists
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 16 (ANI): Hazara Shias remain a prime target for various Sunni terrorist groups such as Taliban and Islamic state group in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In southwestern Pakistan, the Hazaras live in ethnic ghettos and little information filters out from this highly
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Iraq: IS attack in Salahudin leaves 4 policemen dead
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 22 (ANI): Four policemen were killed in an attack by terrorists belonging to the Islamic State group at a police outpost in Iraq's central province of Salahudin on Saturday, a security source told Xinhua news agency.
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Afghanistan: IS leader behind recent Jalalabad attacks killed
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 24 (ANI): A senior leader of the Islamic State group's offshoot ISIS Khorasan (ISIS-K), who was involved in the recent attacks in Jalalabad city, has been killed during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS).
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IS nearly 100 percent uprooted from Iraq, Syria: Trump
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
DAVOS [Switzerland], Jan. 27 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump said on Friday that US-backed coalition forces had won nearly all of the territories occupied by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
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Airstrikes kill over 100 ISIS militants near Syria border in Iraq
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Apr. 2 (ANI): In an airstrike, carried out by the Iraqi fighter jets against the Islamic State group outside Mosul, killed more than 100 militants.
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