Egypt is currently battling several armed groups concentrated mainly in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt’s air force struck a unit of ‘Sinai Province’ , killing 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group and destroying four [ More … ]
Iraqi forces started storming the Daesh-held Old City of Mosul on Sunday, a military statement said. The historic district is the last still under control of the militants in the city which used to be their [ More … ]
Moscow says its jets may have killed leader of world’s most notorious terror organisation in a May airstrike. If true it would be a major propaganda coup for the Russians. Moscow says its jets may [ More … ]
The United States-led international coalition’s operation to recapture Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) started on the night of June 2, Turkey’s prime minister has said, informing that Washington briefed [ More … ]
IS forces fleeing the besieged city of Raqqa are now being targeted by the Russia air force, as it appears the militants are retreating towards regime territory. Russia says it is cutting off an Islamic [ More … ]
Since the Friday attack on buses loaded with Coptic Christians that left at least 29 dead, Egyptians are saying that Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is unequipped to deal with terrorism in the country. Anti-Sisi Egyptian group [ More … ]
The recapture of Mosul from Islamic State group will be complete in one week, local reports said on Monday, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issues orders to prepare for celebrations. The recapture of Mosul from [ More … ]
Informed sources said that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has shown unprecedented flexibility towards the Saudi, American and Jordanian suggestions to send troops from the Egyptian army to the direct engagement lines with the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq [ More … ]
Two suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) believed to be planning an attack in Ankara were killed in a police raid early on May 21 in the Turkish capital [ More … ]
Authorities and aid agencies struggling with surge in displacement since start of offensive last October against ISIL. Up to 200,000 more people could flee Mosul as Iraqi forces push into the last districts held by [ More … ]
The ISIS terrorist group attacked several government-held villages in central Syria on Thursday, capturing at least one of them in violence that left dozens of people dead, including three members of the same family. The [ More … ]
Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday six people on suspicion of belonging to the so-called Islamic State, better known as ISIS, in different cities across Morocco, including Casablanca, Tangier, [ More … ]
Anti-IS Iraqi forces continue to make gains in western Mosul as the militants offer increasingly limited resistance to the coalition-backed advance. Iraqi forces announced on Tuesday they had retaken yet another neighbourhood of western Mosul, [ More … ]
US-backed Kurdish forces have advanced in Tabqa as they eye the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa, a spokesperson says. Kurdish forces are reported to have taken 90 percent of Tabqa city in Syria’s Raqqa province from [ More … ]
At least five suicide bombers blew themselves up inside and outside the camp in Hasakeh province on Tuesday, killing at least 46 people, including 31 civilians. A jihadist assault led by suicide bombers killed dozens [ More … ]
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