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Security forces carried out, on Saturday, a military operation in the countryside of Miqdadiya district, Diyala Governorate to pursue ISIS remnants The security forces carried out, on Saturday, a military operation in the countryside of Miqdadiya district, Diyala Governorate to pursue ISIS remnants. A security source told Alghadeer News that …

Iraqi security forces apprehended scores of ISIS terrorists in separate security operations in Kirkuk and Nineveh. In a statement issued earlier today, Wednesday, the Ministry of Interior’s “Agency for Intelligence and Federal investigation” said that six prominent members of the ISIS terrorist organization were arrested today. The statement said that …

Iraq’s Military Intelligence announced on Tuesday that the most prominent ISIS member on the left coast of Mosul city was arrested. A military intelligence statement said; “a terrorist woman, who was arrested earlier, confessed to the authorities that her son, nicknamed “Muzahem” is working with the terrorist organization in the …

Iraqi security forces arrested today, Tuesday, a group of people wanted by the Judiciary over charges of Terrorism, Drugs, and human organ trafficking. The Nineveh Police Directorate said that it successfully apprehended a wanted ISIS terrorist in the “Amel” neighborhood on the right side of Mosul. The arrestee, according to …

Four polio vaccination workers were killed and three injured in separate attacks in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, a provincial health department official said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks against health workers. A wave of assassinations has hit urban centres since peace talks began between the …

Iraqi forces have killed 13 terrorists of the Islamic State (IS) in separate operations since the beginning of June, an official said. Multiple hideouts used by the insurgents were also destroyed while dozens of suspected IS members were arrested by the counter-terrorism service, Spokesperson Sabah al-Numan told the official Iraqi …

Iraqi armed forces on Saturday launched a new operation against the Islamic State (IS) terrorists in the eastern province of Diyala. The operation covered rural areas to the south of Baquba, the provincial capital city of Diyala, the Iraqi Army said. The army, federal police forces, and units of the …

Iraqi security forces apprehended members of death gangs involved in assassinations in the Basra governorate in the far south of Iraq. The spokesperson of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major-General Yahya Rasool, said that the Iraqi Security forces arrested “those who killed the Journalist Ahmed Abdel Samad and a …

Two mass graves containing bodies of victims killed by ISIS have been found near Badush prison in Mosul, the capital of the Nineveh Governorate. In a press conference near the unearthed mass grave, Nineveh’s Governor, Najm Al-Jubouri, called on the United Nations to provide the Iraqi government and organizations to …

Six others wounded in bombings that struck the western Kabul neighbourhood largely populated by members of the ethnic Hazara minority. At least seven people have been killed and six wounded as separate bombs hit two commuter minivans in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, according to officials. The explosions on Saturday hit vehicles …

The Speicher Massacre became known as one of the first examples of the genocidal brutality of ISIS Seven years ago members of ISIS kidnapped more than 1,700 unarmed young cadets who had been training in Iraq and executed them. The Speicher Massacre became known as one of the first examples …

Iraqi security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) launched today morning a military campaign to track down ISIS terrorists south of Mosul. According to the PMF statement, the Al-Maamoun neighborhood was the campaign’s starting point.

Almost 10,000 Mozambicans have been forcibly removed from Tanzania so far this year after fleeing a deadly Islamist insurgency in their homeland, a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. Mozambique’s northern-most province of Cabo Delgado has been the focus of an insurgency linked to the Islamic State …

Report by Save the Children says 51 minors taken by armed groups in conflict-hit Cabo Delgado in 2020, a figure likely an underestimate. Fighters in conflict-hit northern Mozambique abducted dozens of children during raids in 2020, according to a new analysis by Save the Children. The charity said in a …

A “terrorist” was arrested on Wednesday in southern Iraq, Karbala Operations Command said in a statement. The Command reported that its forces carried out an operation in the Karbala desert in al-Nukhaib district which resulted in the arrest of a wanted terrorist. “The man is handed over to the authority.” …

A new mass grave has been discovered in the Iraqi province of Diyala. The grave, reportedly contains dozens of bodies of people massacred by the former Iraqi Baath regime led by Saddam Hussein, was found in an area between Kifri and Khanaqin, local media reported. Preliminary information indicates that the …

Iraq launched, on Monday, airstrikes on ISIS targets in Kirkuk, The Joint Operations Command said. The spokesperson for the Command, Maj. Gen. Tahsin al-Khafaji, posted on Facebook a video, saying “F-16 fighter jets carried out separated airstrikes on the terrorist ISIS gangs.”. In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS …

Burkina Faso mourns as UN chief calls on countries to redouble efforts to fight ‘violent extremism and its unacceptable human toll’. Gunmen have killed at least 132 people in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, the government said, as the United Nations chief condemned “the heinous attack” and called on countries to …

The Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency announced arresting 12 people accused of belonging to ISIS terrorist gangs in Diyala Governorate. The agency said in a statement today that through pre-emptive operations in Diyala, its detachments managed to arrest 12 terrorists in different areas of the governorate, wanted under the provisions …

Iraqi security sources reported that at least one person was killed and seven others were wounded including three members of a nomadic group in a terrorist attack, northern Baghdad. Iraqi security sources announced on Friday evening that the latest terrorist attack by gunmen took place in the city of Al-Tarmiyah, …