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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Three thousand Islamic State members have surrendered in the last 24 hours as US-backed forces close in on their last holdout in eastern Syria a spokesman said late Tuesday. “Number of Daesh (IS) members surrendered to us since yesterday (Monday) evening has risen to 3,000,” Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Mustefa Bali wrote in English on Twitter Three women and four children of the Yazidi minority were also rescued, he added. © […]
by Matthieu DEMEESTERE BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Mehdi Nemmouche has been convicted of carrying out Europe’s first terror attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town. On Thursday, after a two-month trial in the Belgian capital, 12 jurors found the 33-year-old guilty of the four anti-Semitic murders […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain will strip citizenship from Shamima Begum, a UK teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria and wants to return home with a newborn baby, a lawyer for her family said Tuesday. “Family are very disappointed with the Home Office’s intention to have an order made depriving Shamima of her citizenship,” their lawyer Tasnime Akunjee said on Twitter. “We are considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision,” […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Spain’s King Felipe VI on Wednesday visited special forces helping Iraq fight jihadists, during the first trip by a Spanish monarch to the war-ravaged country in four decades, a diplomat said. The king, whose country is a member of an international coalition battling the Islamic State group, also later met President Barham Saleh. Iraq in 2017 declared victory over IS following a bruising months-long campaign backed by the coalition, which continues […]
RABAT, Morocco (AFP) — A Morocco prosecutor on Sunday presented to an anti-terror judge 15 people suspected of links to the murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains, Rabat’s attorney general said. The prosecution asked that the suspects be investigated for “setting up a gang to prepare and commit terrorist acts”, “premeditated attacks on life” and “advocating for terrorism”, the attorney general said. Seven other detainees will be referred to the prosecution in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump late Sunday said his Turkish counterpart assured him that any remaining Islamic State group fighters in Syria will be eliminated, after Trump abruptly ordered US troops in Syria to leave. “President @RT_Erdogan of Turkey has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate whatever is left of ISIS in Syria,” Trump said in a Tweet around midnight Sunday, using another acronym for the jihadist group. Repeating […]
by Rouba EL HUSSEINI Agence France Prese BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Kurdish-led forces seized the Islamic State’s main hub of Hajin Friday, a milestone in a massive and costly US-backed operation to eradicate the jihadists from eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces secured Hajin, the largest settlement in what is the last pocket of territory controlled by IS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “After a week of heavy fighting and air strikes, […]
by Delil Souleiman Agence France Presse AL-HOL, Syria (AFP) — Faraj was born in the pouring rain on a nondescript stretch of desert road in eastern Syria as his family fled escalating fighting over the Islamic State group’s last bastion. His family was part of a group of around 200 civilians who managed to escape from a pocket of territory in Deir Ezzor province that is still held by the jihadists. “I had to resist […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — More than 3,000 civilians have been killed in US-led coalition air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria since they began four years ago, a monitor said on Sunday. The Washington-led alliance puts the toll at just over 1,000 civilians in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq, and says it does all it can to prevent civilian deaths. The coalition began bombing IS targets in Iraq in August 2014 after the […]
(Eagle News) — No Filipino was hurt in the knife attack in Paris, France on Saturday, May 12, that led to the death of one person. This is according to the Department of Foreign Affairs that issued a statement on Monday, May 14. “Ambassador [Theresa] Lazaro said the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack but has not provided evidence to support its claim,” the DFA said. Naturalized Frenchman Khamzat Azimov carried out the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US military’s hands-off approach on the ground in Syria is ceding influence to Russia and Iran, a top lawmaker warned Tuesday, as the Pentagon said it has seen the Islamic State “resurge” in parts of the country. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker said Moscow and Tehran have “significant influence” in the war-ravaged Middle Eastern nation due to their years-long commitment, while President Donald Trump signals the US could […]
By Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse After fleeing for their lives nearly a year ago, some residents of the battle-scarred city of Marawi were allowed back Sunday for the first time — to dig through the rubble that was once their homes. Swathes of the southern city were destroyed in five months of house-to-house fighting between troops and jihadists loyal to the Islamic State group that killed nearly 1,200. The stunned and tearful residents, who once […]
