Home » isis

You Searched For "ISIS"

Islamic state fighters. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Jihad to proliferate despite blow to ISIS

The battle to recapture Mosul, Iraq's second city and ISIS' capital, began in October last year.

5 July 2017 2:28 AM IST

Iraqi Federal police forces advance towards the western side of Mosul. (Photo: AP)

More than 200,000 displaced by Mosul siege: Iraq ministry

Iraqi forces launched the operation to recapture Mosul in October, retaking the east of the city before setting their...

25 March 2017 6:50 PM IST

Bangladeshi soldiers from Rapid Action Battalion or RAB stand guard where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

IS suicide bomber blows himself up near Dhaka airport

He blew the explosives tied to his waist at a police outpost at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

25 March 2017 9:41 AM IST

UK Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in Parliament.

UK won't be cowed by terror, says PM Theresa May

Lawmakers return to Parliament for work a day after attack that left 3 people dead.

24 March 2017 12:46 AM IST

Flowers and a photo of killed police officer Keith Palmer on Whitehall near Parliament.

Eight held in UK, ISIS claims British parliament attack

MPs return to work, Muslim areas raided in Birmingham.

24 March 2017 12:27 AM IST

Paramedics load a victim into the back of an ambulance as members of the emergency services work on Westminster Bridge, alonside the Houses of Parliament in central London on Wednesday. (Photo: AFP)

ISIS claims UK Parl attack, says operation to target coalition...

At least three people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. The attacker was also gunned down by...

23 March 2017 6:16 PM IST

Maharashtra-based ISIS suspect Mudbabir Shaik (Accused No. 3) also took part in the meeting, the chargesheet says. (Photo: AP)

'ISIS letters' threatening to 'destroy' eastern UP surface, Varanasi...

An alert has been issued and Intelligence agencies are also probing the matter.

23 March 2017 10:03 AM IST

Islamic State group

What is ISIS up to? Be watchful...

A regional spread of Daesh satraps in West Asia, all networked into a virtual caliphate, is on the cards.

22 March 2017 1:27 AM IST

Syrian forces take up positions during fighting between Government forces and Islamic State group militants in the ancient city of Palmyra, near Homs, Syria. (Photo: AP)

Syrian army retakes town of Palmyra from ISIS

It was also the second blow for ISIS group in Syria in a week, after Turkish fighters seized the Syrian town of al-Bab...

3 March 2017 7:53 AM IST

Maharashtra-based ISIS suspect Mudbabir Shaik (Accused No. 3) also took part in the meeting, the chargesheet says. (Photo: AP)

In a first, ISIS threatens to shed blood like rivers' in China

The threat came in a half-hour video released Monday by a division of the IS featuring militants from China's Uighur...

2 March 2017 6:47 PM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Photo: AP)

In farewell speech, ISIS chief Baghdadi accepts defeat in Iraq

It is not clear if he is in the besieged city, where he declared his Caliphate in 2014 after the ISIS seized territory.

2 March 2017 9:49 AM IST

Women holding guns in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan. (Photo: Twitter)

In northern Afghanistan, bereaved women take up arms to fight ISIS

Nearly all of the women have lost a husband, son or brother to the Taliban or the newly active Islamic State in the...

15 Jan 2017 3:41 PM IST