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Isis has called on its followers to retaliate for the terror attack against Muslims in New Zealand New Zealand town of Christchurch last week, in a rare message from one of its top figures. The spokesman for the jihadist group, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, has broken a six-month silence to say last week’s massacre “should incite […]

Shamima Begum’s baby has died according to “unconfirmed reports”, the lawyer for the British wife of an Isis fighter has revealed. The 19-year-old Islamic State (IS) bride and her newborn son, Jarrah, had been living at a Syrian refugee camp after she had her British citizenship stripped. Her family’s lawyer Tasnime Akunjee wrote on Twitter: “We have strong […]

The RAF killed or injured 4,315 enemy fighters in Iraq and Syria between September 2014 and January this year, official data seen by Report Focus, The figures, obtained in a Freedom of Information request by the research charity Action On Armed Violence, claim 2,994 of the deaths are in Iraq, with 235 wounded. In Syria, they report 1,019 were […]

On Monday Iraqi President Barham Saleh said that 13 French Islamic State group fighters who were transferred to Iraq last week will be tried on Iraqi soil. “They are accused of having commanded operations against Iraqis and Iraqi installations in Iraq, and they will be tried according to Iraqi law,” Saleh told a press conference […]

Shamima Begum’s baby could still hold British citizenship despite the Home Office’s move to strip the 19-year-old of her citizenship, Sajid Javid has suggested.  Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the British home secretary said he would not comment on individual cases, but told MPs: “Children should not suffer, so if a parent […]

Syria – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Saturday it had begun the “final battle” to oust the Islamic State group from the last scrap of territory it holds in eastern Syria. Backed by air strikes by the US-led coalition against IS, the Kurdish-Arab alliance has in recent months cornered the jihadists in a final […]

In a statement issued by a UN spokesperson, the Secretary-General expressed his sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the wounded. According to media reports, twin bombings ripped through the Jolo Cathedral in the island province of Sulu, which is in the Philippines southern Bangsamoro region. The attack […]

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday predicted the Islamic State group would be crushed in Syria by February, pushing for the Syrian government and opposition to come together for fresh peace talks early next year. “We have just won the war in Iraq with the coalition,” Macron said in an interview with France 2 television. “And I think that by […]

“Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I, therefore, announce the end of the war against Daesh (Islamic State group),”  the prime minister told a conference organised by the Iraqi journalists’ union. Islamic State group militants seized vast areas north and west of Baghdad in a lightning offensive starting in 2014, seizing nearly a third of […]

CAIRO: Without providing any evidence to support the claim, the Islamic State group on Monday said the gunman in the mass shooting in Las Vegas was “a soldier” from its ranks who had converted to Islam months ago. Authorities have yet to identify a motive for the shooting, and said initially there was no evidence […]