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14 Apr 2017

Uzbekistan says Stockholm suspect had ties to IS: Report

Uzbekistan today said the suspect in last week's deadly Stockholm truck attack had ties to Islamic State jihadists and the West had been warned about him, Russian media reported.

Egyptian soldiers

23 Mar 2017

Ten Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai roadside bombings

Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings as they clashed with Islamic State group jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula.

05 Feb 2017

Syrian army chips away at ISIS on several fronts

Syrian troops and allied militia on Sunday chipped away at territory held by Islamic State jihadists on several fronts across the country, state media and a monitoring group said.

Istanbul nightclub attack

18 Jan 2017

Istanbul nightclub suspect 'received orders from Islamic State'

The man suspected of killing 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year`s Eve has claimed he received the order to attack from Islamic State jihadists in Syria, local media reported Wednesday.

09 Dec 2016

Turkey reinforces military campaign in Syria; dispatches 300 commandos

In the western Turkish province of Denizli where 300 commandos from a base were first taken in buses to a military airport and then to the border region in military planes to join the Turkish-led operation.

29 Nov 2016

IS claims jihadist `soldier` behind Ohio attack

The Amaq agency said the rampage by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a logistics student at Ohio State University, was the result of IS calls to action.

25 Nov 2016

Pakistan militant group says working with Islamic State and al-Qaeda

Ali Bin Sufyan, a spokesman for the Al Alami faction of the homegrown Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) group, said, the militants would work with "whoever will help us against the Pakistani army".

Islamic State jihadists

24 Nov 2016

Islamic State beheads 15 Iraqi soldiers in Mosul

Islamic State jihadists have publicly beheaded 15 Iraqi soldiers in central Mosul and paraded their corpses along the embattled city's major thoroughfares, local news site Ara News reported on Wednesday.

27 Oct 2016

Russia blast suspect 'was IS member'

The Amaq news agency released a video saying that "one of those who carried out the attack on the military base in Nizhny Novgorod", a city around 400 kilometres east of Moscow, belonged to IS.

26 Oct 2016

Islamic State Jihadists `shave beards` as pressure builds on Mosul

With pressure building on the 10th day of the Mosul assault, Western defence chiefs were already looking ahead to the next target -- IS`s other major stronghold of Raqa in Syria.

26 Aug 2016

New Syrian rebel advance against IS may take months, commander says

Sultan Murad is one of the main Syrian rebel groups taking part in the operation that on Wednesday drove IS from the border town of Jarablus with help from Turkish special forces, warplanes and tanks.

24 Aug 2016

Pentagon probes possible civilian casualties in Syria strike: official

A US-led coalition air strike on an Islamic State weapons factory near the jihadists` Syria stronghold Raqa may have killed civilians.

24 Aug 2016

Syria rebels backed by Turkey tanks `seize` IS-held town

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is hosting US Vice President Joe Biden in Ankara, said Syrian fighters in Jarabulus had "taken it back" from IS.

23 Aug 2016

Turkey strikes IS as Syria border tensions flare

Turkish forces also pounded jihadists in Syria with new artillery strikes after a deadly suicide bombing in the city of Gaziantep at the weekend and repeated rocket fire across the border.

22 Aug 2016

US warns Syrian regime not to fly near coalition troops

US military officials reacted furiously last week after jets from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad targeted Kurdish forces and coalition advisers fighting Islamic State jihadists around the north-eastern city of Hasakeh.

22 Aug 2016

Turkey backtracks on `IS child bomber` claims

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Ankara could not confirm who was the perpetrator of the attack on a Kurdish wedding in the city of Gaziantep which left 54 dead.

10 May 2016

Germany to increase troops for first time since Cold War ended

Germany is raising the number of its troops for the first time since 1990, ending a quarter of a century of successive cuts in the army since the end of the Cold War.

10 Apr 2016

Jihadists 'switched attack to Brussels from France' as police closed in

Suicide bombers claimed 32 lives when they blew themselves up at Brussels airport and at a metro station on March 22.

07 Apr 2016

Danish police arrest four alleged IS fighters, seize weapons

Copenhagen police said Thursday they had detained four people on suspicion of joining the Islamic State group in Syria and seized weapons and ammunition in a search linked to the arrests.

31 Mar 2016

France charges main suspect in foiled Paris attack plot

France has charged the main suspect in a foiled attack plot with membership of a terrorist organisation after police found an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home.

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