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Kurdish leader jailed by Turkey court for 42 years over 2014 deadly riots
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
A Turkish Court has sentenced over 20 Kurdish politicians, including former presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas, on bogus charges of crimes against the state and for their role in the 2014 deadly riots that erupted as Islamic State group overran the Syrian town of Kobane, reported Hum
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From tragedy to triumph: Survivor Nidhi Chaphekar's 'Unbroken' journey aft
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Nidhi Chaphekar, a former air hostess with Jet Airways and survivor of the 2016 Brussels bombings, said that no one even thought that such an attack could happen in the world, stressing that it was "horrible."
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Islamic State claims responsibility for Bajaur suicide blast in Pakistan t
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for the Bajaur suicide blast in Pakistan that killed 54 people, including 23 children, according to Al Jazeera.
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Afghanistan: IS claims responsibility for Badakhshan mosque bombing
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The Islamic State group or Daesh has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing inside a mosque in Badakhshan.
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Islamic State group announces death of leader Hashimi al-Qurashi, replacem
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Wednesday said that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement.
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4 IS militants killed in airstrike in W Iraq: military
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Four militants of the Islamic State (IS) group, including the group's leader in Anbar Province, were killed on Sunday in an airstrike in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said.
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8 IS militants killed in Iraq: military
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Eight militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group, believed to be local group leaders, were killed on Tuesday by the Iraqi military in a rural area north of the capital Baghdad, the military said.
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Pakistan security forces seize huge cache of weapons in South Waziristan p
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Sarwakai [Pakistan], January 23 (ANI): Pakistan Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Sarwakai area of South Waziristan district and recovered a huge cache of weapons in the process.
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German court sentences IS bride to 10 years in prison over war crime
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], October 26 (ANI): A German woman who had joined the Islamic State group in 2013, was sentenced to ten years in prison over a war crime by a Munich court on Monday.
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Islamic State group claims responsibility of mosque attack in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 16 (ANI): The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the deadly mosque attack in southern Afghanistan that killed dozens of people in a Shia mosque.
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Attackers killed in Indonesia church blast linked to terror group
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 29 (ANI): Indonesian police have said the suicide bombers who died in a blast outside a Roman Catholic church on Sulawesi Island on Sunday were a man and woman who were members of a Muslim terrorist network linked to the Islamic State group.
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Pak-Afghan Hazara Shias become prime target of Sunni extremists
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 16 (ANI): Hazara Shias remain a prime target for various Sunni terrorist groups such as Taliban and Islamic state group in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In southwestern Pakistan, the Hazaras live in ethnic ghettos and little information filters out from this highly
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