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1/13/2025 6:24:36 PM
Islamist militants have killed at least 40 farmers in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state in the latest violence to hit the conflict-wrought region, a government official said Monday.
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1/12/2025 8:29:31 PM
The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant base of groups that want to establish jihadist states.
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1/11/2025 5:15:44 PM
Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shia shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, state media reported Saturday.
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1/9/2025 11:38:43 AM
The U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic State group from reconstituting as a major threat following the ouster of Bashar Assad's government, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told The Associated Press.
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1/5/2025 11:04:12 AM
Mali's army said Saturday its forces had arrested two men, one of them a leading figure in the Sahel branch of the Islamic State group.
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International
1/2/2025 10:35:05 AM
A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration, killing 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police.
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12/31/2024 5:45:54 PM
Islamic State militants staged an attack in Somalia's Puntland region, local officials said Tuesday, saying security forces had repelled the attack by "Daacish", using the Somali term for the Islamic State group.
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12/12/2024 6:15:31 PM
Thousands of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a Taliban minister killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the day before that was claimed by the Islamic State group.
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12/10/2024 7:36:31 PM
The UK government said Tuesday it was "keeping a very, very close eye" on the potential return of British Islamic State fighters from Syria, in the fallout of the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad.
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11/16/2024 10:40:43 PM
At least 13 people were killed and others kidnapped in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, local authorities said Saturday.
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10/18/2024 4:38:56 PM
Iraqi air strikes killed a senior IS group leader and three other militants, the US military announced Friday, saying the strikes were enabled by intelligence from the international anti-jihadist coalition.
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9/29/2024 3:52:49 PM
US forces conducted two separate strikes in Syria, killing 37 "terrorist operatives" including members of the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, the military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said Sunday.
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9/14/2024 1:18:02 PM
Four Islamic State group leaders were killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid in western Iraq last month, including the head of the jihadist group's operations in the country, the US military said Friday.
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9/11/2024 5:07:58 PM
The US embassy said Wednesday that a blast at Baghdad airport late the previous night was an attack on a US diplomatic compound that caused no casualties.
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9/8/2024 9:51:38 PM
Iraq and the United States have agreed on a phased pullout of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition but have yet to sign a final agreement, the Iraqi defense minister said Sunday.
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International
9/2/2024 7:49:20 PM
Police in the Afghan capital say a suicide bomber carried out an attack Monday, killing at least six people and injuring 13 others.
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8/31/2024 11:24:40 AM
The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert that killed at least 15 people and saw seven American troops hurt in the operation, officials said Saturday.
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8/26/2024 12:32:34 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the city of Solingen on Monday, where a Syrian man with suspected links to the Islamic State group allegedly went on a deadly knife rampage.
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Africa
8/8/2024 8:57:53 PM
A top U.N. counterterrorism official told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist organizations.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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7/23/2024 8:17:50 PM
A rare terrorist attack in the Sultanate of Oman was claimed by the Islamic State, raising questions about the goals of the group and who might be behind it, reports Ahmed Mustafa
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