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Iraq authorities blamed Daesh (ISIS) for terrorist attack on army post. (Representational) Baghdad: An army officer and four soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Iraq’s central province of Salaheddin on Monday, officials said. Iraq’s ministry of defence said that an officer and several members of his regiment were killed “while thwarting…
Accused Touseef Ali Farouqui will be produced in the court on Wednesday when his police remand ends. Guwahati: The father of the arrested IIT-Guwahati student, who had allegedly pledged allegiance to terror group ISIS, on Tuesday said his son had spoken to his family members in Delhi that he would not continue with his studies…
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In June 2015, a few months after the Islamic State (IS) announced the establishment of its Wilayat Khorasan (Khorasan Province), the Taliban wrote a letter to the then IS chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, asking him to stop recruiting jihadists in Afghanistan. The letter, signed by the then political committee chief of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar…
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the recent terror attack on a Moscow concert hall Washington DC: The United States does not see an imminent threat from the Islamic State group to the homeland, the White House said Monday, after the jihadists claimed a deadly attack in Russia. “We don’t see an imminent, credible threat by…
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The IIT-Guwahati student was detained in Assam’s Hajo on Saturday. Guwahati: An IIT-Guwahati student has been detained after he allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS in Assam’s Hajo on Saturday. The fourth-year Biotechnology student recently claimed on a social media platform and emails that he intended to join the terror outfit and went missing from the…
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The attackers opened fire during the attempted arrest, the FSB said. (Representational) Moscow: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it prevented an attack on a synagogue in Moscow that was plotted by an Islamic State cell, Russian state news agencies reported. FSB said that the members of the organization had been planning “to…
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The anti-terror agency had registered a case in January 2016 (File) New Delhi: A special NIA court here convicted an operative of banned global terror group ISIS and sentenced him to seven years in jail, an official said on Tuesday. Adnan Hassan, who was arrested on January 29, 2016, over his affiliation with ISIS, was…
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Ranil Wickremesinghe. File | Photo Credit: AP Dismissing the possibility of an international probe into the 2019 Easter terror attacks, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reiterated that such an investigation into the incident was not permissible under the country’s law. Responding to Sunday’s editorial in the Catholic Church’s Messenger newspaper titled “An international investigation…