Islamic state

The US government is refusing to let IS bride Hoda Muthana return, arguing that she is not an American citizen. read more

A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that monitoring of Islamic State social media indicates that even followers did not know much about Hashimi. read more

Travers did not provide further details of the failed suicide attack by the ISIS-K in India. read more

A senior Turkish official said earlier this week that Turkey had captured Baghdadi’s sister, her husband and daughter. read more

Rasmiya Awad, 65, was detained in a raid near Azaz, the official said, referring to a Turkish-controlled Syrian town near the border. When captured, she was also accompanied by five children. read more

Friday’s assault on a Malian military outpost at Indelimane in the eastern Menaka region near Niger killed 49 Malian soldiers, wounded three and left 20 survivors, the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) said Saturday. read more

Pakistan failed to uniformly implement UN sanctions against groups like the LeT, which continued to raise funds. read more

In an audio statement by spokesman Abu Hamza al Qurashi published on ISIS social media accounts, the group also confirmed the death of former spokesman Abu Hassan Al-Muhajir. read more

The black-and-white images, both stills and videos, showed al-Baghdadi’s compound in Idlib, Syria before the raid, US special forces approaching the compound, US helicopters taking out non-IS fighters who fired at them, and the bombing of the site after... read more

An official admitted that even though the killing of Al-Baghdadi by US elite special forces is a step forward in fight against terrorism, Islamic State continues to remain a grave threat with its large number of fighters. read more

Among the images released by the Defence Department was grainy black-and-white footage of US troops approaching on foot the high-walled compound in northwestern Syria where Baghdadi was holed up. read more

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who had led IS since 2010, detonated a suicide vest after being cornered in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, US President Donald Trump announced. read more

A senior advisor said that the SDF had been working since May 15 with the CIA to track Baghdadi, and managed to confirm that he had moved from Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria to Idlib, where he was killed. read more

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Trump tweeted a photo of a Belgian Malinois that he said worked with a team of special forces in the capture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a tunnel beneath a compound in northeastern Syria. read more