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Aden, Yemen (AFP)—The Islamic State jihadist group has claimed responsibility for twin bombings against the Yemeni army which killed 41 people in second city Aden on Monday. In a statement posted online, IS said one of its militants detonated an explosives belt among “apostate soldiers” at an army recruitment center, followed by a bomb that exploded at the gate of the nearby Badr army base in Aden’s Khormaksar district. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
by Salam Faraj BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 64 people Wednesday at a market in a Shiite area of Baghdad, in the single deadliest attack this year in the capital. The blast comes as the government is locked in a political crisis that some have warned could undermine the fight against IS. The bombing, which hit the frequently targeted Sadr City area of northern […]
(REUTERS) Islamic State attacks have increased this year, particularly in Iraq and Syria as the group responds to substantial territorial losses, a U.S.-based analysis firm IHS said on Sunday. There were 891 attacks during the first quarter of 2016 in neighbors Iraq and Syria, more than in any three-month period since the militants’ sweeping advance in mid-2014, IHS said in a new report. Those attacks killed 2,150 people, a 44 percent rise over the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic militant group from the southern Philippines notorious for abducting foreigners, beheaded a Canadian hostage on Monday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “outraged” by the killing, and authorities were trying to free another Canadian still being held along with a Norwegian man and a Filipina. Here are five facts about Abu Sayyaf: Origins The group is a radical offshoot of a Muslim separatist insurgency that has […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey has killed almost 900 alleged members of the Islamic State (IS) group since January through artillery fire and air raids, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Monday, citing military sources. The country, a member of a US-led coalition fighting IS, has killed 492 “terrorists” since January 9 in air raids, while another 370 were killed in artillery strikes which also destroyed arms depots, the agency said. These figures could not be […]
WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday (April 18) that the United States is providing more support to Iraq as its military moves to take back territory from Islamic State, and he expects the city of Mosul will be retaken eventually. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and gaining ground, let’s make sure that we are providing them more support,” Obama said in an […]
President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday that the United States is providing more support to Iraq as its military moves to take back territory from Islamic State, and he expects the city of Mosul will be retaken eventually. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and gaining ground, let’s make sure that we are providing them more support,” Obama said in an interview with CBS News. U.S. officials announced in […]
(Reuters) — A member of Islamic State’s war council and two aides were killed in northern Iraq on Monday by U.S. and Kurdish commandos in the second helicopter raid in two days in the area by a U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish security sources said. A statement by the Kurdish regional security council said Monday’s raid south of the Iraqi city of Mosul killed Suleiman Abd Shabib al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Saif. As a member of the […]
BASILAN, Philippines – The group Islamic State issued a statement claiming responsibility for the ambush conducted against the military last April 9 in Basilan. Said ambush resulted in the death of 18 soldiers. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said he spoke with Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday (April 5) about how the Pentagon should be organised to meet global threats, including from Islamic State. “We’re investing in capabilities that of our military to deter aggression and defend our security and that of our allies, and this includes increases in our posture in Europe, to reassure NATO allies, in light of particularly increased […]
PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) — Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra on Sunday (March 27), inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. The loss of Palmyra represents one of the biggest setbacks for the ultra-hardline Islamist group since it declared a caliphate in 2014 across large parts of Syria and Iraq. The army […]
Aden, Yemen (AFP)—Three suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group on Friday struck checkpoints of Yemeni loyalist forces in Aden, killing 22 people, including 10 civilians, a security official said. The bombings were followed by an attempt to attack a nearby large base of the Saudi-led Arab pro-government coalition which recently turned its guns on jihadists in southern Yemen. The attacks came a year after the coalition launched on March 26, 2015 an air […]
