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ISIS media leader killed in Afghanistan: U.S.
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], June. 17 (ANI): In a major development, the United States military has confirmed the killing of a senior member and the destruction of a media hub of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghanistan branch of the terrorist group.
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39 Indian hostages in Iraq's Mosul alive:MEA
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday that 39 Indians taken hostage in the Iraqi city of Mosul by the fighters aligned to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014 are alive.
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ISIS claims capturing Bin Laden's hideout in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 16 (ANI): The offshoot of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, has claimed that it has captured slain al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden's hideout in the remote Tora Bora valley in eastern Nangarhar province.
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Iraq: Female suicide bomber kills 21 in deadly explosion
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 9 (ANI): At least 21 people were killed and several others wounded after a female suicide bomber blew herself up in a market south of the capital Baghdad on Friday, according to media reports.
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ISIS killed more than 200 civilians over three days, UN says
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mosul [Iraq], June 9 (ANI): The ISIS killed more than 200 civilians over three days last week as they tried to flee fighting in western Mosul, Iraq.
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ISIS using minors as human shields in Mosul: UNICEF
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 6 (ANI): Around 100,000 minors remain trapped in "extremely dangerous"area of Mosul which is controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) and are being used as human shields and forced to fight on behalf of Islamic State terrorists.
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ISIS surrenders leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's hideout in Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 5 (ANI): The Islamic State has surrendered the key town of Baaj in north-west Iraq, which was a known hideout of the terrorist group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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ISIS radicalizing Muslim youth in Europe to take over West: Defence Expert
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): The Defence Experts on Sunday condemned the recent terror attack in London that claimed seven lives and said that the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is radicalizing the migrant Muslim youth settled in Europe very fast to carry out their plan to take
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At least 13 dead in Turkish military helicopter crash
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Sirnak [Turkey], June 1 (ANI): At least 13 soldiers were killed after a Turkish military helicopter crashed near Turkey's border with Iraq after hitting a high-voltage transmission line, according to reports.
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Civilian deaths in war against Islamic State inevitable: Pentagon head
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday said that civilian casualties in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are inevitable even as the U.S. forces "do everything humanly possible" to prevent them.
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Suicide bomb attack kills four in eastern Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Diyala [Iraq], May 28 (ANI): At least four persons were killed and 18 others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself near a security checkpoint in Iraq's central Baquba city on Sunday.
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Top ISIS leaders killed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 26 (ANI): At least seven Islamic State fighters of ISIL-Khorasan province, a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, were killed in the latest anti-IS operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
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