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In 2015, the US also retaliated with drone strike to kill ISIL hacker group in-charge Junaid Hussain. (Photo: ANI)

US to use fake social media to check people entering country

The change in policy was preceded by other steps taken by the State Department.

31 Aug 2019 8:08 AM IST

Among the 160 people wounded at the wedding blast, many are in critical condition, some not well enough to undergo surgery, said a second senior interior ministry official. (Photo: AP)

Death toll of Afghan wedding blast rises to 80: Officials

The initial death toll after the Saturday night blast was 63, but some of the wounded had died in hospital.

21 Aug 2019 1:44 PM IST

A Tajik special forces colonel who defected to Islamic State in 2015 and, according to the ministry, has since been killed in Syria. (Representational Image)

Islamic State eyes India, Sri Lanka as next operational hub: report

The monitor showed that the increase in its activity outside West Asia -- mostly across South Asia and Africa-- is...

16 Aug 2019 11:19 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Assam will become Islamic state if NRC not fixed: ABVP

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

5 Sept 2019 3:16 AM IST

The new leader of the Islamic State group is a nobody with little apparent reputation but the United States hopes he will be killed soon, a US official said Wednesday. (Representational Image/ File)

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

8 Oct 2020 8:45 PM IST

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...

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

3 Nov 2020 3:52 PM IST

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...

31 May 2020 10:03 AM IST

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...

25 May 2020 10:54 AM IST

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...

15 May 2020 12:18 PM IST

NSG commandos (PTI file photo)

IEDs recovered from ISIS suspect in Delhi under scrutiny of NSG...

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

23 Aug 2020 10:35 AM IST

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 Delhis Ridge Road area, in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

Delhi Police nabs ISIS operative with IEDs, claims to have averted...

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

22 Aug 2020 8:52 PM IST

The new leader of the Islamic State group is a nobody with little apparent reputation but the United States hopes he will be killed soon, a US official said Wednesday. (Representational Image/ File)

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 Sept 2020 8:19 PM IST