カテゴリー: Islamic State
Episode reported by CNN required emergency memo to senior officials and suggests agency does not know migrants’ locationFederal agents are reportedly trailing a group of more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who entered the US as asylum seekers aided by a …
Blast took place at political rally for a pro-Taliban party as country faces a rising tide of militant attacksThe Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 54 people in Pakistan, as the country battles a rising ti…
Islamic State suicide attack that killed 180 including 13 US service members occurred during US withdrawal from AfghanistanThe Islamic State leader behind the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing that killed about 180 people including 13 US service membe…
Mohammad Dawood Muzammil one of the highest-ranking figures killed as Afghan security situation deterioratesThe Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s Balkh province, known for fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists, was killed in a suicide attack at his off…
Families are in desperate straits, the security situation is worsening – but the Taliban’s priority is punishing half the populationThe Taliban’s relentless campaign against women is not only a matter of rights, but of survival. It is not only cruel an…
Makers of Bollywood film say it is based on real information and events but have not provided any evidencePolice in Kerala are investigating a controversial Bollywood film that portrays the southern Indian state as a hub of Islamic terrorism and forced…
Human Rights Watch says Taliban is failing to protect Shia minority from violent attacks on mosques, schools and workplacesHazara communities in Afghanistan are being targeted in violent attacks by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), Islamic St…
UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali’s most important military base, ‘is once again the leader of global jihad’It was one of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s last victories. Just over a week before the al-Qaida leader was killed in Ka…
At least two people killed and seven wounded, officials say after attack in capital claimed by Islamic StateGunmen have stormed a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital, killing at least two people and wounding seven more, officials say.The interior ministr…
Explosion in Afghan capital is latest in string of attacks on civilians during RamadanA powerful explosion has killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, the latest of a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan …
Readers respond to an article by Nesrine Malik about how the invasion of Ukraine has been viewed differently to other conflicts across the globeNesrine Malik’s comment has one further compelling dimension to it: seeing this horror in Ukraine and all co…
Exclusive: first reported case of attempted international recruitment to IS since US left AfghanistanTwo suspected Islamic State recruits, one of them carrying a British passport, were seized by the Taliban when they tried to slip into Afghanistan last…
As its economy implodes and the food crisis grows, its people feel betrayed. No wonderThe global attention has dissipated, but the crisis is intensifying. The bleak year that Afghans have endured is turning to a still bleaker winter. The UN World Food …
Pentagon says Afghan-based group and al-Qaida have intention to attack US and Taliban’s ability to fight them is ‘to be determined’The US intelligence community has assessed that Islamic State in Afghanistan could have the capability of attacking the U…
US says it discussed aid in talks in Doha but Taliban say deal agreed that stops short of formal recognition of new rulersThe United States has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, b…