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

Russia cannot confirm whether ISIS leader al-Baghdadi dead: report

US defense officials last week said they were unable to confirm the reports about Baghdadi's death.

20 Jun 2017 6:04 PM IST

The Tehran Security Council has convened an emergency meeting after two terror attacks were reported on the Iranian Parliament and Imam Khomeini Mausoleum respectively on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Iran's Revolutionary Guard strikes Syria for Tehran attacks

On June 7, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the parliament complex and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah...

19 Jun 2017 9:24 AM IST

The report said that ISIS is struggling financially in Afghanistan, where it has resorted to extortion of the local population. (Photo: Representational Image/A

Kerala youth who joined ISIS killed in combat with US forces in...

Vincent, Merrin alias Mariam and 19 others had last year fled to Khorasan province of Afghanistan, which is controlled...

30 April 2017 12:53 PM IST

Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northern Syrian after she escaped from ISIS territory following three traumatic years living in the groups so-called caliphate. (Photo: AFP)

From aspiring stylist to a jihadist widow

Now safe in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, Maytat holds her 10-month-old daughter Maria in her lap as she tells...

27 April 2017 6:52 AM IST

The building where Nazim Ahmed resided. ATS sources said Mudabbir Shaikh, arrested last year, may have recruited Ahmed.

Nazim Ahmed had ties with alleged IS man: ATS

Shaikh, a computer graduate, was being tracked by the Maharashtra ATS for six months before his arrest.

26 April 2017 3:01 AM IST

Police secure the area in front of the Islamic center, in Zurich. (Photo: AP)

Switzerland prayer hall shooter found dead

Most of those at the Islamic Centre were from North Africa, Somalia and Eritrea, according to the ATS news agency.

21 Dec 2016 2:34 AM IST

A member of the Iraqi Special Forces shoots his machine gun against an Islamic State militant drone, in Mosul. (Photo: AP)

Unravelling the story of a mass grave in Iraq

Investigators are facing the enormous task of piecing together details of what happened to IS's many victims, and...

20 Dec 2016 3:46 PM IST

Slippers are strewn across the site of a bombing at a military compound in Aden, Yemen. (Photo: AFP)

48 Yemeni soldiers killed on payday

ISIS bomber detonates vest after blending in among soldiers waiting for wages.

19 Dec 2016 2:31 AM IST

The battle for Aleppo has gripped the world, but it is hardly the only active front across Syria. One of the next targets for the forces of Bashar Assad will probably be the heartland of rebel territory, the neighboring Idlib province. (Photo: AP)

After Aleppo, Assad likely to target Idlib

President Assad pursued a policy of siege, truces and forced surrenders, deporting thousands of rebels and opposition to...

18 Dec 2016 3:50 PM IST

Turkish medics carry a wounded Syrian woman, evacuated from Aleppo, to a field hospital near Idlib, Syria, Friday, December 16, 2016. (Photo: AP)

Video of Syrian child being operated without anaesthesia leaves...

With the Russian and Syrian forces' continued assault, the civilians in the war-torn region have been caught in the...

17 Dec 2016 4:05 PM IST

Italian police shot him dead after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday.

Berlin attacker pledged allegiance to IS in video

Amri called for Islamic State supporters to take revenge of crusaders bombing Muslims.

23 Dec 2016 8:08 PM IST

Amri was caught on camera by police on a regular stake-out at a mosque in Berlins Moabit district early on Tuesday a few hours after the attack. (Photo: AFP)

Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead in Milan: reports

Various sources confirmed that the dead man was Anis Amri, the suspect in the Berlin truck attack on Monday that killed...

23 Dec 2016 3:26 PM IST