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Today, Murad and her friend Lamia Haji Bashar, joint recipients of the EUs 2016 Sakharov human rights prize, continue the fight for the 3,000 Yazidis who remain missing, presumed still in captivity. (Photo: AP)

Nadia Murad: From jihadist slave to Nobel laureate

Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded prize for efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a...

5 Oct 2018 3:16 PM IST

On Monday night, terrified pupils fled the boarding school night when heavily armed fighters in military fatigues and turbans stormed the town, shouting Allahu Akbar. (Representational Image/ AFP)

110 girls missing after Boko Haram school attack: Nigerian Govt

The kidnapping has raised questions about the military's repeated claims that the Islamist terrorists are on the verge...

26 Feb 2018 5:16 PM IST

Jihan said she doesnt have any pictures of her children and doesnt want to remember them. (Photo: AFP)

Agony of Yazidi women torn between IS kids, or return home

Dozens of Yazidi women and girls systematically raped, sold and married off to jihadists after being abducted.

14 July 2019 5:16 PM IST

The examination of the crime scene and dead bodies indicated that the death was caused by firearms. Bijarani received one gunshot in the head while his wife three bullets one on head and two on abdomen. (Photo: File/Representational)

Police says gunmen kill six villagers in Nigeria

Gambo Isah said police were combing the bushes for the bodies of the assailants.

8 July 2019 5:00 PM IST

Wolf believes that there is the threat among Pakistans leadership, that actions against jihadists will provoke severe backlashes. (Photo: ANI)

Pakistan considers jihadists 'asset' against India, Afghanistan, says...

In recent years, Islamabad had pinned hopes of mainstreaming the militant groups, particularly the Lashkar-e-Taiba, into...

7 Aug 2019 7:56 PM 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

People stand next to candles and flowers placed on the ground, after a terror attack that left many killed and wounded in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo: AP)

Barcelona attack: 4 suspects to face court, 8 other jihadist killed

4 men have been detained, and rest have been killed, either by police or in an explosion believed to have been detonated...

22 Aug 2017 11:57 AM IST

United Nations finds mass graves in northern Mali

United Nations finds mass graves in northern Mali

The armed groups accused of abuses by the UN operate in areas where Mali's army and state is absent or has a very...

6 Aug 2017 12:26 PM IST

A media arm of the Islamic State group, shows people inspecting damage from airstrikes and artillery shelling in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the ISIS. (Photo: AP)

Syrian army takes ISIS-held town in Homs province, says monitor

Monitor says government troops have taken last ISIS-held town in Homs as army advances towards ISIL strongholds in east.

6 Aug 2017 8:07 AM IST

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

Now, Syria monitor says ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead; US...

Russia's military said in mid-June that it was seeking to verify whether it had killed the ISIS chief in an air strike...

11 July 2017 6:56 PM IST

Analysts fear that while extremist groups may not have the necessary skills themselves, they could hire someone else to wreak havoc. (Photo: Representational Image)

Fears grow over jihadist cyber threat in France

The Islamic State group, al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups are so far using the internet mainly for propaganda and...

28 Jan 2017 10:44 AM IST

A man from Bihar has been languishing in a jail in Saudi Arabia for over 15 years as his family is unable to pay a punishment sum of over Rs 1 crore. (Representational image)

Greece: 2 suspected jihadists sentenced to 15 years in jail

The pair, a 29-year-old of Bosnian descent and a 19-year-old of Yemeni origin were caught in January 2016 near the...

12 May 2017 6:56 PM IST