Police detain suspected Islamic State follower in Barcelona
Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man in Barcelona with suspected links to Islamic State who they believe was planning a militant attack. The Guardia...
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Driver who rammed Paris police pledged allegiance to IS
The driver who rammed his car into two police motorcyclists in a Paris suburb on Monday had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the French anti-terror...
U.S. kills leader of al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula -Trump
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States had killed Qassim al-Raymi, the leader of Islamist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),...
Norway finmin quits over IS woman’s return from Syria
Norway’s Finance Minister Siv Jensen and her right-wing Progress Party will resign from the government over a decision to bring home from Syria a woman...
Iraq condemns U.S. air strikes as unacceptable and dangerous
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Ahmed Rasheed Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday condemned U.S. air strikes on bases of Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, a...
Outrage after revelations London attacker was released last year after terrorism offences(Update 3)
By Costas Pitas and Guy Faulconbridge The 28-year-old British man who killed two people in a stabbing spree on London Bridge before police shot him...
Police confirm two deaths, three injuries in London stabbing incident (Update 3)
Two members of the public were killed and three injured in Friday’s stabbing rampage by a lone knife-man near London Bridge, police confirmed. “It is...
German police arrest Syrian suspected of planning attack
German police on Tuesday arrested a Syrian suspected of planning an Islamist attack, officials said, with public broadcaster ARD reporting that the man was at...
Jordan, UAE, Turkey, Sudan accused of violating sanctions on Libya -U.N. report
Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey have repeatedly violated an arms embargo on Libya and it is “highly probable” that a foreign attack aircraft...
Baghdadi leaves bitter legacy in Iraqi city of Mosul he terrorised
By Raya Jalabi When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took to the pulpit of Iraq’s historic al-Nuri mosque to declare his caliphate in 2014, residents of Mosul...
Australian counter-terror police say they foiled Sydney attack plot
SYDNEY, July 2 (Reuters) – Australian counter-terror police said they arrested three men in raids across Sydney on Tuesday, foiling a plot inspired by militant...
IS recruitment could pave way for more female jihadis
Islamic State’s recruitment of women to support its cause could pave the way for more frontline roles for women in jihadi groups, the European Union’s...
‘American Taliban’ Lindh released from US prison
John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, was released early from federal prison on Thursday, the Washington Post...
Iraq weighs captives’ rights against fear of new Islamic State
Iraqi farmer Shaker Salih says he feared IslamicState, but feared its defeat even more. His problem is persuading people to believe that he did not support...
Sri Lanka imposes new curfew as mosques attacked
Sri Lanka widened a curfew on Monday after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in the worst unrest since Easter bombings by Islamist militants and...
Amnesty: US killed 1,600 civilians in Raqqa
The U.S.-backed assault to drive Islamic State from its Syrian capital Raqqa in 2017 killed more than 1,600 civilians, 10 times the toll the coalition itself has...
Sri Lanka attacker studied law in UK, Australia
The early Sunday bombings shattered the relative calm that has existed in Buddhist-majoritySri Lanka since a civil war against mostly Hindu, ethnic Tamil separatists ended 10...
Sri Lanka attacks likely the work of Islamists
Coordinated Easter Sunday bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka bore the hallmarks of militant groups Islamic State or al Qaeda, security experts said...
Kosovo brings back IS fighters, families of jihadists
Kosovo brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria on Saturday including jihadists who had gone to fight in the country’s civil war and 74 children,...
Christianity grows in Syrian town once besieged by IS
A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the...
