Pakistan: CTD officials detain two ISIS-linked terrorists in Karachi
Islamabad: The Counter-Terrorism Department and a federal intelligence agency of Pakistan carried out a joint raid at New Truck Stand on Karachi's Mauripur Road on Monday and detained two Islamic STate terrorists, media reports said.
Trial begins in 2015 Paris terror attack
Paris: A court in Paris on Wednesday started the trial in the 2015 Paris attacks which left 130 people dead.
ISKP is a Pakistani proxy, says geo-political expert
Wasington: A leading US-based magazine has called the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), the group which took responsibility for the recent blasts in Kabul airport, as a 'Pakistani proxy'.
Death toll due to Islamic State attack in northern Iraq touches 12: Reports
Baghdad/UNI/Sputnik: The number of police officers killed in the Islamic State terrorist attack in Iraq's northern Kirkuk Governorate rose to 12, Shafaq News reported, citing security sources.
Taliban came with a positive mind: Shahid Afridi supports insurgent group which invaded Afghanistan
Islamabad/IBNS: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has openly supported the insurgent group Taliban which invaded Afghanistan, where fear and anxiety have gripped people over the change in political power.
Afghanistan intel had informed US about Kabul airport blasts and role of ISIS: Reports
Kabul: Top sources in the National Directorate of Security in Afghanistan, the country’s national intelligence and security service, have said that the agency had forewarned the United States about the twin blasts that took place in Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International airport which left over 100 people dead and disrupted further the peace in a nation already battered by conflict and Taliban takeover.
Afghanistan: Death toll in ISIS-led Kabul attacks reaches 103
Kabul/UNI/Sputnik/IBNS: The death toll from a series of terrorist attacks, led by the Islamic State, in the Afghan capital of Kabul has reached 103 people, media reported Friday.
Pentagon warns of a Islamic State offshoot targeting evacuation plane from Kabul
Washington: Pentagon officials have alerted that an Afghan-based Islamic State-offshoot called ISIS-K are 'targeting' evacuation planes flying out of Kabul.
Islamic State threat moves online, expands across Africa: Senior counter-terrorism expert
New York: Two decades after the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, terror networks Al-Qaida and Islamic State – also known as Da’esh – continue to pose a grave threat to peace and security, adapting to new technologies and moving into some of the world’s most fragile regions, the top UN counter-terrorism official told the Security Council on Thursday.
Islamist extremists in Middle-East may receive boost from Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: Experts
Kabul: A defence expert has said terror organizations, including Al-Qaeda, will gain strength in Pakistan and Afghanistan as Taliban insurgents took control of Kabul.
Afghanistan: UN report warns expanding threat from ISIS, Al-Qaeda
Kabul: In its new report, the United Nations has warned that the threat from terror groups such as Islamic State and Al-Qaeda is expanding in many places in Afghanistan where the security situation remains fragile with uncertainty surrounding the peace process and a risk of further deterioration.
ISIS gaining ground in northern Afghanistan, warns Russian foreign minister
ISIS militants are building up their forces in northern Afghanistan amid foreign troop withdrawal, warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week, saying the development is worrying for Moscow.
Maldives struggles to bring back children of Maldivian ISIS terrorist stuck in Afghanistan
Saifiu and his wife, both Maldivian nationals, were arrested by Afghan authorities in 2018 from eastern Nangarhar province, where they had joined ISIS. Since then, they, along with their children, are in an Afghan prison. The Maldivian government despite making several efforts have failed to repatriate their children.
Washington: Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, and attempting to commit a hate crime, for planning an attack on a synagogue in the Toledo, Ohio area.
Mozambique: Islamic State eyeing new target in African nation after Middle East jolt
Washington: A geo-political expert has opined that after suffering defeats in the Middle East region, terror group Islamic State has turned to Africa to reestablish its power.