Tag Archives: Terrorism

One person was killed and at least two others injured when a homemade bomb exploded inside a minibus to transport passengers southeast of the capital Baghdad, Iraqi police officer said on Tuesday A homemade bomb placed inside a vehicle of transporting passengers, exploded as it was passing through Al-Madaen district, …

The al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorist groups have turned their guns on each other despite having previously cooperated in Africa’s Sahel region. Sporadic clashes between the two groups earlier this year have escalated into full-blown combat in countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso, AFP cited experts as saying in a …

Blast in the eastern city of Gardez kills five civilians and wounds 19 – including five army personnel The Taliban said it carried out a deadly attack Thursday on an Afghan army base after the government ordered forces to resume strikes against the militants. Afghan officials said a vehicle carrying …

The Nigerien Defense Ministry says army troops from the landlocked West African country and allied forces from neighboring states have killed 75 members of the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group during security operations earlier this week in the region, where the borders of Niger, Nigeria and Chad converge. The ministry …

The leader of the Islamic State group in South Asia and the Far East has been arrested in Kabul, Afghanistan’s intelligence service says. Zia ul-Haq, also known as Sheikh Omar Khorasani, was held with two other senior leaders of the militant group. The Taliban are the main militant group in …

Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, says its anti-terror fighters have killed a top leader of the Daesh terrorist group in the eastern province of Diyala. Sadiq al-Hosseini, a senior official of Hashd al-Sha’abi said that the Daesh senior leader was killed in Haoz al-Waqf area, …

Iraqi Commander in chief of the Armed Forces Adil Abd Al-Mahdi has ordered the launch of a large-scale operation against the remnants of ISIS terrorists, according to the spokesperson of Iraq’s Armed Forces. Abdul Mahdi has ordered the armed forces to cooperate with intelligence agencies to target and destroy the …

Iraq’s Al-Nujaba Movement, which forms part of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), has claimed that the US has been planning to “transfer” senior Daesh commanders and other terrorists from eastern Syria to neighboring Iraq. “Washington is insisting on the implementation of a plot to return the terrorists to Iraq by …

Haditha clans’ fighters in Anbar province have killed on Monday, ISIS suicide bombers, after they were trapped inside a mosque in Al-Medham village west of Haditha district, 160 km west of Ramadi city west of Iraq. The spokesman of the clans’ fighters said in a video recording that they had …

Police in Copenhagen have foiled plans for an act of terror that had “a militant Islamic motive.” The suspect, who had allegedly tried to obtain firearms and ammunition, was thought to be working alone, authorities said. Police in Denmark prevented a terror attack that was said to have “a militant …

Several members of the security forces were injured in the first suicide attack in months Iraq has blamed ISIS for a suicide attack on its intelligence bureau in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday when at least three security force members were wounded. Authorities said two men – one …

A court in Egypt has added a former lawmaker and a dozen others, all either members or associates of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement, to terrorist lists for five years. The Fifth Terrorism Judicial District in the capital Cairo announced the news in a statement on Saturday, saying former legislator …

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and army troops have started a joint, full-scale anti-terrorist military operation in the country’s western province of Anbar. According to a statement by the media bureau of the PMF, better known by the name Hashd al-Sha’abi, the operation, codenamed “Heroes of the Second Victory,” commenced …

A man accused of deadly attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch a year ago has pleaded guilty to 51 charges of murder. Brenton Tarrant, 29, also admitted the attempted murder of another 40 people, and one terrorism charge. He had previously denied the charges and was …

Iraq announced, on Wednesday, the transfer of 82 members of Daesh families to their country, Azerbaijan. This came in a statement issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of which Alghadeer received a copy. The statement quoted the ministry’s spokesman, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, saying that “Iraq has deported 82 children …

Syria President Bashar al-Assad says Syrians are determined to liberate the whole country from the clutches of foreign-sponsored terrorists, amid a full-scale offensive by the army in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last militant bastion in a nine-year war. Assad made the comment during a meeting with Iran’s Parliament …

The Iraqi army and country’s paramilitary forces on Wednesday launched a fresh military operation against the remnants of the Islamic State (IS). The operation, dubbed “Heroes of Iraq”, aims to clear Anbar deserts and Iraq’s border with Syria and Jordan, west of the country, according to joint operations command. This …

US Federal authorities say they have arrested a Phoenix-area man suspected of killing two men while acting as a leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The Department of Justice said that 42-year-old Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri appeared before a magistrate judge on Friday for proceedings to extradite him to Iraq. The …

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 …

A girl detonated a bomb, killing three boys at an Islamic seminary in northeast Nigeria in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a local militia and residents said on Friday. The girl, believed to be aged 12, detonated the device late on Thursday when open-air classes were …