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Mosul mosque destruction means ISIS admitting defeat: Iraq PM
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mosul [Iraq], June 22 (ANI):Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said that the ISIS act of destroying the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri amounts to "an official announcement that they have admitted their defeat" in the eight-month-old battle of Mosul.
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Philippines' Duterte apologises for martial law, pledges to rebuild M
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 21 (ANI): Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to the people of Marawi for declaring martial law in Mindanao island and vowed to rebuild the city which was destroyed after four weeks of fierce fighting between forces and ISIS affliated militants.
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ISIS-linked militants attack Philippines village, take hostages
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 21 (ANI): Several residents have been taken hostage and used as human shields after armed terrorists stormed a village in the Cotabato province of the Philippines, according to local police.
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Chinese netizens demand revenge for 'ISIS' killing of citizens i
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 19 (ANI) :The killing of two Chinese nationals by the Islamic State in Pakistan's Balochistan province, has sparked an outage on social media, with Chinese netizens demanding that their government send PLA troops to Pakistan to avenge the killings.
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Afghan Special Operations commandos deployed to clear Tora Bora from ISIS
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 18 (ANI): The Afghan National Army has deployed commandos from its Special Operations to Tora Bora valley, which earlier hosted a hideout of slain al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, days after the Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan claimed the capture of th
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700 ISIS militants killed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in last
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 17 (ANI): A top Afghan Army official has said that at least 700 Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in the past three months during the Hamza operations.
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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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Russia denies confirmation of Baghdadi's killing
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] , June 16 (ANI): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that there is no confirmation yet that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in one of its airstrikes in Syria last month and therefore has initiated investigations into May 28 airstrike.
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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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Russia may have killed ISIS leader Baghdadi in airstrike
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 16 (ANI): Russia has said that ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi might have been killed in an airstrike carried out by its forces on the southern suburb of Syria's Raqqa in late May.
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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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Kabul mosque attack: Seven killed, ISIS claims responsibility
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], June. 16 (ANI): At least seven people have been killed and around 15 have been injured in an explosion that was set off outside a mosque in the Afghan city of Heart.
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