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Terror groups using digital platforms to promote `jihad', says EFSAS resea
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Amsterdam, [Netherlands] June 22 (ANI): Terrorist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS), Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Taliban to name a few have been using social media and their digital publications to influence the youth and lure them towards so-called `jihad', says Yoana Barakova, a research an
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US-led coalition destroys three IS camps in Iraq - Military Task Force
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 21 (Sputnik/ANI): The US-led military coalition in Iraq has destroyed three camps belonging to Islamic State, the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a statement.
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Iraqi security forces interrogate top IS captive Qardash
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 24 (Sputnik/ANI): The Iraqi security forces have begun interrogating Abdel Nasser Qardash, a member of the Islamic State terror group tapped as its new leader, an armed forces spokesman told Sputnik on Saturday.
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7 ISIS terrorists escape prison in Syria
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], May 17 (Sputnik/ANI): Seven terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State have escaped a Kurdish-guarded prison in northeastern Syria, state media reported Sunday.
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Pakistani-American woman sentenced to 13 years by US court for funding ISI
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], May 15 (ANI): A Pakistani-American woman -- Zoobia Shahnaz -- has been sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment by a United States' Federal Court for providing material support to terror fronts of Islamic States in Pakistan, China and Turkey.
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The state of minorities in the Islamic State
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], May 6 (ANI): According to the State of Human Rights 2019 annual report published by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), "Religious minorities remained unable to enjoy the freedom of religion or belief guaranteed to them under the constitution...this has meant the
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7 IS militants killed in anti-terror operation in Iraq's Salahudin provinc
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], May 1 (ANI): Seven Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in an operation by the Iraqi paramilitary Hashd Shaabi on Thursday in Salahudin province.
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Afghanistan refuses to handover ISKP chief, the mastermind behind Kabul Gu
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 11 (ANI): Afghanistan on Saturday turned down Pakistan's request to handover Aslam Farooqi, leader of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), an affiliate of the militant Islamic State (IS) and the main conspirator behind the massacre of 27 Sikh worshippers
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Arrest of Aslam Farooqi brought ISKP's Pakistani connections into sharp fo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], April 11 (ANI): The arrest of Abdullah Orakzai alias Aslam Farooqi, a key leader of the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) has brought the terror group's Pakistani connections into sharp focus, a European think-tank has said.
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ISKP chief's arrest traces roots of Kabul gurdwara attack to Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
abul [Afghanistan], April 5 (ANI): Mawlawi Abdullah aka Aslam Farooqui, the so-called emir of Pakistan-sponsored module of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), is under detention by Afghan forces for the massacre of 27 Sikh worshippers at Shor Bazaar Gurudwara in Kabul on March 25.
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ISKP's 'emir' Farooqui confesses having links with Pak-based terror networ
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 04 (ANI): The so-called emir of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) Mawlawi Abdullah aka Aslam Farooqui, who has been arrested by the Afghan forces on charges of orchestrating the attack on a gurdwara in Kabul last month, confessed to having links with Pakistan-
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ISKP chief Mawlawi Abdullah arrested for orchestrating Kabul gurdwara atta
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 4 (ANI): Mawlawi Abdullah aka Aslam Farooqui, the so-called emir of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), has been arrested on charges of plotting the attack on a gurdwara in Kabul last month.
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