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(REUTERS) Islamic State has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday (June 21). Video released by the group in May appeared to show the ancient Roman-era ruins in Palmyra still intact, despite fears that it would be destroyed after the Sunni militant group seized the city from government control. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not […]
Armed Islamic State militants dispersed a large number of Syrians waiting to cross into Turkey at the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad on Saturday (June 13). The would-be refugees were made to pick up their belongings and move away from the border. Fighting near the border has already forced more than 13,000 people to cross into Turkey from Syria. Some 1,500 more are waiting to cross. A security source said Turkish soldiers sprayed water […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — Iraq said on Monday (June 1) its air force has carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants in areas west and north of the capital Baghdad. A press release by the Ministry of Defense said planes of the Iraqi air force conducted “painful” strikes targeting militant’s hideout and equipment in al-Jazeera in the western Sunni heartland of Anbar province and Samarra in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. The statement said […]
Almost a year after Islamic State’s shock capture of Mosul, Iraq’s second city, the black flags of the jihadis have been raised over Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province to the west of Baghdad, seat of Iraq’s increasingly theoretical central government. Nobody talks of Mosul or recapturing it from Islamic State. It is a forgotten city. Now it is all about the fall of Ramadi, the neighbouring ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in central Syria […]
A bomb exploded at a Shi’ite Houthi mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday (May 22) wounding 13 people, a security source said, and Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Twitter. The security source added that the bomb was planted inside the al-Saiah mosque before Friday prayers and two out of those wounded are in a critical condition. A second explosive device was found nearby hidden in a shoe, […]
THE U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating a possible Islamic State-inspired terrorism plot in the United States, CNN reported on Saturday (April 25), quoting law enforcement officials. A Federal law enforcement official who asked not to be named said there was a known threat to Los Angeles International Airport, but did not say whether this was a new threat or was associated with Islamic State. CNN said the investigation started after intercepted communication and other […]
LIBYA’S Foreign Minister Muhammad Dayri told reporters on Monday (April 20) how he is “appalled” by the barbaric beheading of at least 28 Christians in Libya, after a video purportedly made by Islamic State was posted on social media sites. “We are appalled at this barbaric killing of 28 Ethiopian nationals yesterday in Libya. This is not the first time that these hordes of ISIS do operate with this tragic and horrible actions in Libya,” […]
Militants claiming loyalty to Islamic State said on twitter on Monday (April 13) they were responsible for an attack on the Moroccan embassy and on South Korea’s mission in the Libyan capital Tripoli. The bomb damaged the gate and a residential building next to the Moroccan embassy located in the up market Ben Ashour district. Nobody was hurt by the blast early on Monday, an official said. On Sunday, gunmen fired shots at the South […]
Hope was in the air in Baghdad city over the weekend as hundreds of colorful lanterns were released into the sky signaling Iraqis’ wishes for peace and stability in the country. Flying sky lanterns that decorated the evening sky on Saturday (March 21), more than three thousand young men and women flocked to a festival organized by the young group ‘Anummaki’. The festival aimed to signal a sign of support for more than 20,000 troops […]
Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday (March 14) they have evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters. The Security Council of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region (KRSC) said in a statement that the peshmerga had taken soil and clothing samples after an Islamic State suicide bombing in northern Iraq in January. It said laboratory analysis showed “the samples contained levels of chlorine that suggested the substance was […]
The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls tracts of Syria and Iraq has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram, his spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said, calling on supporters to fight in Africa. Boko Haram, which has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds during a six-year campaign to carve out an Islamist state in northern Nigeria, pledged its allegiance last week, highlighting increased coordination between jihadi movements across north Africa and […]
Twitter Inc. and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network’s co-founder and other employees, the company said in reaction to media reports. Islamic State supporters, in online posts on Sunday (March 1), called for attacks against Twitter and its “interests,” including death threats, according to the online news media company Buzzfeed as well as the NBC news network. “Our security team is investigating the veracity […]
