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A file photo of Tabrez Tambe.

IS suspect Tambe to return' home from Libya in two months

MEA officials have allegedly also established contact with Tambe and have asked him to return to the country and face...

12 July 2017 2:06 AM IST

An underlying cause of anxiety is the growing threat of the militant Islamic State group spreading its tentacles in the war-torn country. (Photo: AFP)

Islamic State lost nearly a quarter of its territory in 2016: report

Between early Jan 2016 and the end of the year the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate fell from 78,000 to 60,400...

19 Jan 2017 11:06 AM IST

Abdulgadir Masharipov

Istanbul New Year club attacker held

Authorities detained Abdulgadir Masharipov, who spent 17 days on the run after the attack claimed by Islamic State (IS)...

18 Jan 2017 2:05 AM IST

Medics and security officials work at the scene after an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul. (Photo: AP)

Istanbul nightclub attacker who killed 39 captured

The suspect was captured in a special operations police raid on a house in Istanbul's Esenyurt district, private NTV...

17 Jan 2017 5:42 AM IST

The inquiry, conducted last month, found that ISIS had used the weapon on civilians. (Photo: AP/File)

ISIS may launch devastating chemical attacks in Europe: UN watchdog

The fleeing terrorists could carry out mustard gas attacks after learning how to use the toxic substance in battle...

24 Nov 2016 5:17 PM IST

ISIS school textbooks have given an insight into jihadists efforts to brainwash young children dubbed Cubs of the Caliphate. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Make sentences from bomb, vest, explode: ISIS school book

Textbook for 5th graders asks students to fill in missing words in sentences such as I can shoot, __I and He can bomb,...

22 Nov 2016 6:20 PM IST

68,000 Iraqis displaced in Mosul offensive: UN

68,000 Iraqis displaced in Mosul offensive: UN

A million-plus civilians were thought to still live inside Mosul, before the operation was launched.

22 Nov 2016 4:38 PM IST

Government troops, backed by Russian and Iranian forces and Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group, were battling rebels on several fronts inside opposition-held districts. (Photo: AP)

Civilians flee as Syria regime advances in rebel Aleppo

The renewed fighting has killed more than 140 civilians in east Aleppo.

22 Nov 2016 3:55 PM IST

They showed one of the men, elderly with a white beard and kneeling in an orange jumpsuit with his neck pressed against a steel stand. Masked IS executioners dressed in black raised long swords over his head. (Representational Image)

ISIS in Egypt beheads Sinai clerics mistaken for priests

The victims were later identified by locals as leading religious figures from among Sinai's Bedouins.

20 Nov 2016 10:36 AM IST

The destruction has caused the homeless to head for increasingly crowded camps, not homes. (Photo: AP)

Brought to Mosul by ISIS, Iraq's displaced seek to return home

Many Iraqis from around Mosul are unable to return because the militants rigged homes with explosives as they withdrew.

16 March 2017 12:34 PM IST

US President Donald Trump

Trump taking steps to defeat ISIS: White House

Trump has signed an executive order asking his national security team to prepare an action plan within 30 days to defeat...

31 Jan 2017 1:09 PM IST

Demonstrators protest against President Trumps executive immigration ban at Chicago OHare International Airport on January 28, 2017. (Photo: AFP)

Iraqi family barred from flying to US, treated like drug dealers'

Their passports confiscated, the distraught family was detained overnight at Cairo airport.

29 Jan 2017 8:26 PM IST