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Four Syrian security personnel were killed in an Islamic State (IS) group attack in the northern city of Raqqa, which was recently taken by Damascus from Kurdish forces, state media reported on Monday. The attack, the second against security forces in as many days per Syria's interior ministry, comes after IS called on its fighters to ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-13 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world's two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say. With strong central leadership, the groups were once able to train and then send commandos into Europe ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-19 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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American forces carried out a raid in Syria on Friday, killing a senior operative from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, the US military said. "Omar Abdul Qader was an ISIS member actively seeking to attack the United States," the military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement, using an alternate acronym for IS. "His death ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-25 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iraq has announced plans to send back to their home countries “hundreds” of foreign women prisoners and their children, but two foreign diplomats told AFP on Monday that such procedures are expected to take a long time. The initiative excludes women sentenced to death but covers detainees affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group as well ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-16 11:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 80 suspected members of the Islamic State group have been arrested across Ethiopia, state media said, claiming they intended to carry out a "terror mission". The 82 individuals were trained in neighbouring Somali Puntland region, according to state outlet Fana Media Corporation, which cited a statement from the National Intelligence and ...
This is Beirut, 2025-06-05 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US military officials announced Wednesday the detention of an Islamic State group (IS) leader during international coalition operations in Iraq and Syria, which also killed two other operatives. US Central Command wrote on X that the operations, conducted from May 21 to 27, "served to disrupt and degrade" IS's ability to "reconstitute, plan, ...
This is Beirut, 2025-04-19 04:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said Friday. Washington has had troops in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, which rose out of the chaos of the country's civil war to seize swaths of ...
This is Beirut, 2025-02-19 17:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Austria has arrested a 14-year-old alleged Islamic State group sympathiser suspected of plotting to carry out a terror attack at one of Vienna's main train stations, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. The announcement comes just days after a Syrian refugee killed a teenager and injured five other people in southern Austria in what ...
This is Beirut, 2025-02-12 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Islamic State group claimed Wednesday a suicide bombing of a bank in north Afghanistan which killed five people a day earlier, saying it was targeting Taliban government employees collecting salaries. Violence has waned in Afghanistan since the Taliban surged back to power and ended their insurgency in 2021, but the Islamic State (IS) group ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-01-16 09:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards attacked 'terrorist' targets in Syria and Iraq's Kurdistan on Monday, killing four people and wounding six others, and drawing United States criticism for recklessness and destabilization concerns. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they launched missile attacks on multiple 'terrorist' targets in Syria and Iraq's ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-01 11:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An explosion and gunfire killed at least 11 civilians in eastern Iraq, blamed on the jihadist group Daesh (Islamic State). The attack came ahead of the December 18 elections for provincial councils in Iraq. A blast and gunfire killed at least 11 civilians in eastern Iraq, two security officials said on Friday, an attack that the provincial ...