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Tributes offered on social media for brave Saudi men who died confronting suicide bomber

Social media erupted with posts, tweets and pictures honouring the two fallen heroes Mohammed Hassan… Read More

Canada revises immigration law to counter IS influence

OTTAWA: A revised Canadian immigration law came into force Friday enabling the government to revoke… Read More

Saudi Arabia ‘responsible’ for mosque bombing: Hezbollah

BEIRUT: Lebanon's powerful Shia Hezbollah movement said on Friday that Saudi Arabia was "totally responsible"… Read More

IS expands control to central Syria by capturing Palmyra

Islamic State militants further expanded their control across Syria when they took hold of the… Read More

Pakistan officials question group’s claim of Islamic State funding

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The militant group that said it was behind Wednesday's massacre of 45… Read More

IS, Taliban pairing up in northern Afghanistan: official

KUNDUZ: Foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State group are training Taliban insurgents in a… Read More

IS ‘virus’ seeks to destroy Muslim world: Erdogan

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday launched one of his strongest attacks yet… Read More

UK police arrest boy over Australia IS attack ‘plot’

LONDON: Police in Britain said Monday they have arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with… Read More

IS master plan made by officer under Saddam Hussein

BERLIN: An ex-intelligence officer under the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was "the strategic head"… Read More

IS claims responsibility for deadly Afghan bombing: President Ghani

KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) group claimed to have carried out a deadly suicide attack… Read More

Australian airport website hacked by Islamic State

An Australian airport website was offline Monday after being taken over by pro-Islamic State hackers… Read More

IS in Egypt claims soldier’s execution-style killing

CAIRO: Egyptian jihadists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group have posted a video… Read More

Romania to expel seven for recruiting for Al-Qaeda, IS

BUCHAREST: Romania will expel seven foreign nationals accused of recruiting members for the Islamic State group… Read More

Pro-Daesh wall chalking surfaces in Faisalabad

FAISALABAD: Unknown persons on Thursday carried out Daesh's (Islamic State) wall chalking at Faisalabad's Jhang… Read More

Iraq's Tikrit offensive stalled by IS bombs

SAMARRA: Iraq's huge offensive to retake Tikrit from the Islamic State group is being stalled… Read More

Turkey becomes world's biggest refugee host!

Turkey has housed scores of Syrian refugees in refugee camps, following the Islamic State's clashes… Read More

Indonesian women, children held in Turkey 'heading to join IS'

JAKARTA: Sixteen Indonesians, mostly women and children, have been arrested in Turkey attempting to cross… Read More

Photos claim IS beheadings of homosexuals in northern Iraq

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group has publicly beheaded three men in northern Iraq, two of… Read More

Air strikes on IS-run refineries in Syria kill 30: monitor

BEIRUT: US-led coalition air strikes on oil refineries run by the Islamic State group in… Read More