カテゴリー: Islamic State
Explosion struck outside education centre in Shia neighbourhood in Afghan cityAt least 18 people have been killed and 57 wounded, including schoolchildren, in a suicide bomb attack outside an education centre in Kabul, the Afghan interior ministry said…
Women’s rights activist Fawzia Koofi, a member of the team negotiating a deal with the Taliban, was shot in the armA female member of Afghanistan’s peace negotiating team has been slightly wounded in an assassination attempt, officials say.Fawzia Koofi…
At least 29 people killed after Isis gunmen attack prison in JalalabadAfghan authorities are searching for about 270 inmates – most of them Isis fighters – who remained on the loose after escaping during a deadly prison raid.At least 29 people were kil…
Afghan troops seize prison in Jalalabad after assault left more than 50 people injuredAt least 29 people have died after Islamic State militants attacked a prison in eastern Afghanistan that is believed to be holding hundreds of Isis members.The attack…
The Afghan government is facing hard decisions over the futures of hundreds of detained radicalised women and their childrenThe “Daesh wives” from the Afghan branch of Islamic State look very young. Most are already mothers.Hundreds of them have fled c…
Taliban admits killing nine militiamen but denies targeting 14 worshippersAt least 14 people have been killed in attacks on a mosque in northern Afghanistan and on worshippers returning from prayers in the east, as the US peace envoy arrived in Kabul t…
Nineteen-year-old Soraya Ameri had just given birth when gunmen stormed the ward. She recounts her escape – and the desperate search for her daughter Soraya Ameri’s premature baby daughter had been whisked off to an incubator and the new mother was lyi…
At least eight killed and dozens evacuated during attack by people wearing police uniforms Gunmen have attacked a hospital in Kabul where the international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a maternity clinic, killing at lea…
Groups such as Isis plan to exploit pandemic, but even it has acknowledged danger posed by virusCoronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Islamic extremists hope to exploit the Covid-19 pandemic to launch new attacks, motivate follo…
Isis gunmen held hostages for hours while Afghan special forces tried to end siegeGunmen and suicide bombers have killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and children, and injured many others in an early morning attack on a Sikh Gurdwara in the…
Police confirm three foreigners attacked by ‘suspected extremists’ but say their injuries are not seriousThree people including an Australian man have been stabbed in the Maldives in an attack claimed by Islamic State sympathisers.Police in the South A…
Law imposed two and a half years ago to try to stop Islamic State gaining presenceRodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by the end of the year, his spokesman has said, more than two years after it was imposed in an attempt t…
Photojournalist Stefanie Glinski visited Khagyani, Nangarhar and Pekha village in Achin district and found communities devastated by US drone strikes Not a single family was spared in Javari village. Just behind the brown, mud-brick houses, seven grave…
Allan and Wilma Hyrons found in Sulu province where they had been held by Isis affiliatesTroops in the Philippines have rescued a British national and his Filipina wife who were abducted by gunmen at a beach resort last month and taken to the jungle hi…
State blames Taliban for blasts targeting worshippers during Friday prayersPolice and local residents were searching for bodies in the rubble of a mosque in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, after bomb blaststhat killed at least 69 people …