Spearheaded by jihadist leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi, IS has this year regrouped and carried out more activity outside of West Asia than inside it for the first time, according to data released by Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), a US-based... read more

Saifuddin is the second resident from the state to have been killed fighting for the IS in Afghanistan over the last fortnight, a fact that underlines the deepening influence of the extreme Salafi ideology in the state. read more

Al-Qaeda “continues to cooperate closely with Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Haqqani Network”, the UN report said underscoring the threat these Pakistan-based terrorist groups still pose for south Asia and the world. read more

Afghan forces killed three militants who entered Saleh’s four-storey office after a suicide bomber blew himself up during rush hour, said the interior ministry. read more

Dozens more bodies were discovered following the assault Saturday by gunmen on a village close to the regional capital Maiduguri. read more

The three blasts came amid a wider surge in violence in Kabul and around Afghanistan, where nine family members were killed in an eastern province Thursday while driving to a wedding. read more

Donald Trump complained that the nearly 18-year US campaign in Afghanistan is “ridiculous” on Monday in a White House meeting with Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan. read more

The death of Huzaifa al-Bakistani in the drone strike in Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province on July 18 was confirmed by the media channel of IS. read more

US President Donald Trump asked Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, for what reason she was awarded the Nobel. read more

Authorities have said local jihadist group National Thowheeth Jamaath (NTJ) were responsible for the suicide bombings in churches and hotels that killed at least 258 people in Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter Sunday bombings. The attacks were later claimed... read more

Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, called for the world body to start collaborating its counter-terrorism efforts with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). read more

India has felt frustrated by the lack of on-going and committed collective action to degrade these sub-continental terrorists and entities as was undertaken by the UNSC to tackle the Islamic State (IS or ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). The... read more

The slain militant was identified as Adil Dass, who had quit the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to join a so-called Islamic State (IS) inspired group operating in Kashmir. Arif Hussain Bhat, the wounded militant, is a suspected member of the home-grown Hizbul... read more

The group comprises three Bangladeshi nationals and an Indian hailing from West Bengal’s Birbhum district, a senior Kolkata Police officer said. read more

The report quoted Afghan officials as saying that some 500 LeT fighters are active in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces alone. read more