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Iraq’s military has agreed to resume joint operations against ISIS, the global coalition against the terrorist group said on Friday, four weeks after they were suspended in response to the US assassination of an Iraqi PMF Leader in Baghdad. The US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS announced the decision in …

Authorities in Turkey have arrested at least 10 people for their alleged ties to the so-called Islamic State, security sources said. Police in Turkey’s capital Ankara “carried out raids” at specific addresses where the suspects lived, the sources said, according to state-run Anadolu Agency. “The suspects were in contact with …

Syrian army forces are in full control of a strategic town in the country’s northwestern province of Aleppo following an intense military operation against foreign-sponsored terrorist militants. Syria’s Arabic-language al-Masdar news agency, citing an unnamed military official from Division 30 of the Republican Guard, reported that government troops liberated Khan …

A Lebanese military sentenced has sentenced a Syrian refugee to three years of hard labor on charges of belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) and planning to commit crimes against the Lebanese people and undermining the authority of the state, activists said Saturday. The court also sentenced, in absentia, four …

Iraqi police announced on Thursday that they have discovered a depot where the Islamic State (IS) terrorists had hidden hundreds of bombs and other improvised explosive devices (IED) in Kirkuk. According to a statement by the Iraqi Police, the depot was found during a search operation in Sada village of …

Up to 40 Syrian soldiers have been killed and 80 others wounded in a multi-pronged attack by militants in the northwestern province of Idlib. Syria’s official news agency SANA cited a military source as saying that militants launched “fierce attacks with large numbers” on the country’s army positions in the …

“Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces), the army, the police, and border guards started Mantaqat al-Forat al-Awsat operations in 8 directions on Wednesday morning to establish security in Jazirat al-Najaf and Sahra al-Karbala regions,” General Ali al-Hamdani, a commander of Hashd al-Shaabi participating in the operations, was quoted by the …

Norway’s coalition government was at risk of collapse on Monday after its finance minister quit following the return of a suspected ISIS member and her two children from Syria last week. The resignation of Siv Jensen and her right-wing Progress Party means Prime Minister Erna Solberg does not have a …

A morbidly obese Daesh ‘mufti’ was caught in a raid yesterday by an elite Iraqi SWAT team, of the Nineveh regiment in the city of Mosul. Shifa Al-Nima, also known as Abu Abdul-Bari, was too overweight (reportedly weighing over 135 kilograms) to be taken into a police car, however, and …

German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer arrived on Wednesday in Iraq on an unannounced visit to meet with German troops deployed there, German Defense Ministry spokesperson told reporters at a press briefing. Prior to her visit to Iraq, Kramp-Karrenbauer toured Jordan where she met with German servicemen and held talks with …

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed overnight on Tuesday in an attack by the Islamic State (IS) terrorists, Iraq’s War Media Cell, part, and parcel of the country’s army confirmed in a statement. At least five other soldiers were wounded by the IS terrorists who managed to escape after the attack. …

Iraqi Police said on Sunday they have seized 65 explosive devices belonging to the Islamic State (IS) in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk. The police said in an official statement that during separate anti-IS operations they have also seized a large number of materials used by IS to develop bombs. …

The death toll from the bombing of a mosque in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta rose to 15 on Saturday, officials said, in an escalation of militant violence. An improvised explosive device ripped through the mosque during Friday evening prayers, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20, police …

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly condemned the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, calling them the “heroes of the fight against Daesh” terrorist group. In a message delivered by his representative during a sermon in the holy city of Karbala on …

At least 90 people were killed when a bomb-laden truck exploded at a busy checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, an international organization working in the country said, in the deadliest attack in more than two years. The dead included many students and two Turkish nationals, Somalia’s foreign …

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), better known as name Hashd al-Sha’abi, says it has fought off an attack by the Daesh terrorist group against an area south of the Iraqi city of Samarra. In a statement on Friday, the Hashd al-Sha’abi said the Daesh elements were trying to infiltrate through …

Islamic State released a video purporting to show its militants beheading 10 Christian men in Nigeria, saying it was part of a campaign to avenge the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and its spokesman. The militant group posted the footage on its online Telegram news channel on Thursday, …

Russian military police have taken control of a base near Syria’s northern city of Raqqah only a few days after US servicemen left the site, which lies in a strategic area at a crossroads linking the strategic city with the central and northern regions of the war-ravaged country. Russia’s state-run …

An attack in Burkina Faso has killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women, in one of the deadliest assaults to hit the West African country in nearly five years of violence. Seven soldiers and 80 armed fighters were also killed in Tuesday’s double attack on a military base and …

Boko Haram terrorists have killed seven people on Christmas Eve in a raid on a Christian village near the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, local militia and residents say. Dozens of militants driving trucks and motorcycles stormed into Kwarangulum late Tuesday, shooting fleeing residents and burning homes …