Islamic State

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Last Update : 05:23 PM IST

The official poster of "The Kerala Story", directed by Sudipto Sen and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Art or propaganda? Real ‘Kerala story’ is different

Attempts to spread hate under cover of artistic freedom are unfair and unacceptable

10 May 2023 12:05 AM

Security officials and rescue workers conduct an operation to clear the rubble and search for bodies at the site of Monday's suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The death toll from the previous day's suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistani rose to more than 85 on Tuesday, officials said. The assault on a Sunni Mosque inside a major police facility was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Pak singed, playing with fire

Given the background of encouragement for disruptive elements who use bombs as a weapon against civilians as well, Pak is far from blameless

01 Feb 2023 12:10 AM

A file photo of Islamic State (ISIS) militants, who were arrested by the Afghan government in Kabul. (Image: AP)

Intelligence agencies warn of Islamic State's threat ahead of Gujarat polls

Terror outfit plans to recruit cadre from Gujarat

11 Sep 2022 7:19 AM

The U.S. military said five rockets targeted the airport on Monday morning and that U.S. forces on the airfield used a defensive system to intercept them. (AP Photo)

Islamic State group claims latest Kabul attack

The attack did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport

30 Aug 2021 7:26 PM

In this image provided by the Department of Defense, two paratroopers assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conduct security while a C-130 Hercules takes off during a evacuation operation in Kabul, Aug. 25, 2021. (Department of Defense via AP)

What is the Islamic State threat in Afghanistan?

President Biden said there is 'an acute and growing risk' of an attack at airport by the group's regional chapter - Islamic State-Khorasan

26 Aug 2021 10:41 AM

In recent months terrorists from Pakistan have been increasingly using drones to drop weapons and drugs across the international border in Jammu and Punjab. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Drone attacks likely to alter threat perception in India

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh termed the blasts on the Air Force Station at Jammu a terror attack

28 Jun 2021 1:37 AM

A journalist walks inside of a damaged class of the National Legal Training center, a day after gunmen stormed Kabul university in Kabul on November 3, 2020. - Stunned students demonstrated outside Kabul University on November 3 after at least 22 people were killed in a brutal, on-campus attack claimed by the Islamic State group. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Kabul University attack: Aghanistan in mourning after Islamic State strike kills 22

Outside Kabul University Tuesday a small group of demonstrators gathered demanding a cease-fire

03 Nov 2020 3:52 PM

NIA arrests 2 suspected ISIS operatives in Bengaluru

The NIA also stated that they had played a very significant role in radicalisation of the members of the group

08 Oct 2020 8:45 PM

NIA convicts Kerala man who joined Islamic State before returning home

Haja returned to India in October 2016 and was arrested by the NIA that same month.

25 Sep 2020 8:19 PM

IEDs recovered from ISIS suspect in Delhi under scrutiny of NSG commandos, bomb squad

Security has been heightened near Buddha Jayanti Park in Ridge Road area, with teams of NSG commandos and sniffer dogs keeping a tight vigil

23 Aug 2020 10:35 AM

Delhi Police with an alleged ISIS operative (C) after arresting him last night following an exchange of fire and recovery of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from central Delhi's Ridge Road area, in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

Delhi Police nabs ISIS operative with IEDs, claims to have averted major terror strike

We also found he was in touch with ISIS and directly in touch with its commanders: Police

22 Aug 2020 8:52 PM

An Afghan security personnel investigates a damaged vehicle carrying employees of Khurshid TV along a roadside, at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul on May 30,2020. (AFP)

Islamic State kills Afghan journalist, technician in bus blast

Taliban and other Islamist insurgents have repeatedly targeted Afghan journalists, killing 15 in 2018, the worst year yet for Afghan media

31 May 2020 10:03 AM

A policeman searches a vendor on a motorbike in Cinkasse, the northern Togo commercial border post with Burkina Faso. (AFP)

Ivory Coast army joins Burkina Faso in anti-jihadist operation

Burkina Faso and its neighbours Mali and Niger are battling Islamist insurgencies with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State

25 May 2020 10:54 AM

Afghan and foreign security personnel stand guard in front of a hospital after gunmen attacked, in Kabul. (AP)

US blames Islamic State on Kabul maternity hospital attack

Afghan president orders military to switch to “offensive mode” against the Taliban following the hospital attack and another suicide bombing

15 May 2020 12:18 PM

Then again there is the threat of men infiltrating the camp and committing sexual assaults on the female inmates of the camp.

A women’s ‘caliphate’ on the Syrian-Iraq border that would otherwise not exist

The camp is now home to over 70,000 people, most of whom are women and children.

22 Nov 2019 2:42 AM

The reclusive leader al-Baghdadi was known to be close to one of his brothers, known by his nom de guerre Abu Hamza. (Photo: File)

Turkey says it captured dead IS leader Baghdadi’s sister in Syria

The Turkish official said the 65-year-old known as Rasmiya Awad is suspected of being affiliated with the extremist group.

05 Nov 2019 8:05 AM

Trump revealed that the military dog, a Belgian Malinois, is named "Conan". (Photo: Twitter)

Trump: 'Hero' dog to get a White House homecoming

Trump posted a photomontage on Twitter showing him bestowing a medal of honor on the dog with the legend: 'AMERICAN HERO.'

01 Nov 2019 3:58 PM

That could gain monstrous new life with a US troops’ drawdown from Afghanistan whenever that happens. (Photo: PTI)

Afghan peace path runs through Pak & Kashmir

While US policy-makers broadly understand this, it has not translated to action on the ground.

23 Oct 2019 2:01 AM

The withdrawal, announced by the White House late on Sunday, was swiftly condemned by a bipartisan group of lawmakers over concerns that it could open the way for a Turkish strike on Kurdish-led forces long allied with Washington. (Photo : File)

Trump threatens to 'destroy, obliterate' Turkey's economy for any action in Syria

The United States began pulling troops back from the northeast Syrian border on Monday.

08 Oct 2019 9:06 AM

The ABVP also criticised the All Assam Students Union (Aasu) for changing their stand on NRC.

Assam will become Islamic state if NRC not fixed: ABVP

ABVP plans to launch massive protests, awareness campaigns across state.

05 Sep 2019 3:16 AM

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