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February 12, 2019

French detain 2 in 2016 police couple killing in name of IS

A French official says two individuals have been placed in custody in relation to the investigation of the 2016 slaying of ...

February 12, 2019

Islamic militants' deadly resurgence threatens Nigeria polls

Nigeria's government acknowledges there has been a resurgence of violence by Islamic extremists in the country's troubled ...

February 11, 2019

UN warns Islamic State losses shouldn't lead to complacency

The U.N. counter-terrorism chief warned Monday that recent losses by Islamic State extremists "should not lead to complacency ...

February 11, 2019

Russia repatriates 27 children of IS members from Iraq

Russia's Emergencies Ministry says it has repatriated 27 children who are family members of the Islamic State Group jailed ...

February 07, 2019

Saudi study: Millennial jihadis educated, not outcasts

A study by a Saudi research center is challenging the notion that jihadi fighters are necessarily disenfranchised and lacking ...

February 07, 2019

UN report: IS responsible for most attacks in Iraq and Syria

International terrorist groups carried out more attacks in Iraq and Syria in the last six months of 2018 than in any other ...

February 05, 2019

UK believes Islamic State hostage John Cantlie is alive

The British government believes photojournalist John Cantlie is alive more than six years after his abduction in northwestern ...

February 04, 2019

US calls for repatriation of foreign fighters held in Syria

The United States on Monday called on other nations to repatriate and prosecute their citizens who traveled to Syria to fight ...

February 03, 2019

Syria says US-led coalition hit its forces in the east

The Syrian military said the U.S.-led coalition attacked one of its artillery positions in the country's east, wounding two ...

February 01, 2019

In reversal, Trump now says he and intel chiefs in agreement

A day after he lashed out at U.S. intelligence agency chiefs over their assessments of global threats, President Donald Trump ...

January 29, 2019

French jihadis will return home, and to prison, from Syria

France's government is preparing for an influx of homegrown jihadis with the departure of U.S. troops from Syria, saying ...

January 29, 2019

17 on trial in deadly Tunisian beach attack on UK tourists

Seventeen people went on trial Tuesday over Tunisia's deadliest extremist attack, a massacre at a Mediterranean resort in ...

January 29, 2019

Duterte sees bombed church, tells army to crush Abu Sayyaf

President Rodrigo Duterte and his top security officials on Monday visited a Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines ...

January 27, 2019

20 dead as bombs target Sunday Mass in Philippine cathedral

Two bombs minutes apart tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are ...

January 26, 2019

Syria wants Turkish withdrawal to revive security agreement

Syria called on Turkey on Saturday to withdraw its troops from Syria's northern territories and end support for armed ...

January 24, 2019

Report: US-backed Syrian fighters clash with IS, many killed

Members of the Islamic State group failed Thursday to break a siege imposed by U.S.-backed fighters in the last area they ...

January 23, 2019

Italian convert to Islam held on inciting terror charge

Police in Sicily have arrested a 32-year-old Italian convert to Islam on terrorism charges for allegedly inciting contacts ...

January 22, 2019

6 Kosovars jailed for joining terror groups

A Kosovo court on Tuesday convicted a man for participating in terror groups in Syria and jailed him for five years.

January 22, 2019

Filipino Muslims vote on autonomy after long peace effort

Muslims in the southern Philippines voted Monday in a referendum on a new autonomous region that seeks to end nearly half a ...