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Erased: IS and the destruction of ancient artifacts
The Islamic State group released a five-minute video Thursday in which militants in Iraq are seen destroying ancient artefacts that included idols, which...
Austrian law rules imams must be able to speak German
Austria’s parliament has passed a bill amending historical laws on Muslim organisations which will ban foreign sources of financing and require imams...
IS kidnaps 90 Christians - including children - from Syrian villages
Islamic State militants have kidnapped dozens of people from Christian villages in Syria, a human rights watchdog has said.
Families of London girls en route to Syria beg them to come home
Families of two of the three London teenage girls believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State have begged their daughters to return...
Families of London girls bound for Syria beg them to come home
Families of two of the three London teenage girls believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State are asking their daughters to return home.
As public cries for vengeance, Jordan talks of wider intervention in Syria
Grief here over the Islamic State’s brutal killing of a Jordanian pilot has given way to calls for war, with Jordanian officials dropping hints of a...
Jordan executes two al-Qaeda prisoners after ISIS killing of pilot
Jordan executed two al Qaeda prisoners before dawn Wednesday, a government spokesman said, just hours after Islamic State militants released a video purportedly...
Jordan retaliates: Two al-Qaida prisoners executed after IS killing of pilot
Just hours after Islamic State militants released a video purportedly showing captured Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive in a cage,...
Jordan executes two al Qaeda prisoners after IS killing of pilot
Jordan executed two al Qaeda prisoners before dawn Wednesday, a government spokesman said, just hours after Islamic State militants released a video purportedly...
U.S. hopes kidnapped pilot’s murder will toughen Jordan’s resolve
The Islamic State’s burning to death of a captured Jordanian air force pilot is likely to harden Jordan’s position as a member of the U.S.-led...
Jordan mourns murdered pilot, vows ‘earthshaking’ response against IS
Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, and Jordan promised to avenge his death.
Jordan vows ‘earthshaking’ response to IS video showing pilot’s death
Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, and Jordan promised to avenge his death.
Unconfirmed images appear to show IS burning Jordanian pilot alive
Supporters of the Islamic State insurgent group have begun circulating photos on social media that purport to show captive Jordanian pilot Mu’ath...
Out of time? Families plead for lives of IS hostages as swap hopes fade
Japan and Jordan were working closely on Friday to find out what had happened to a journalist and shot-down fighter pilot, respectively, held by the militant...
Families plead for lives of IS hostages as swap hopes fade
A deadline of sunset Thursday for a possible prisoner swap purportedly set by the Islamic State group holding a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian military...
'Left speechless': Latest beheading has shaken Japan to the core
From the prime minister to the populace, Japan responded with shock on Sunday after learning one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State...
Breaking: IS militants reportedly release video of beheaded Japanese citizen
Japan’s government is investigating a new message purported to be from the Islamic State group holding two Japanese hostages.
Japan to fight ‘until the very end’ for IS hostages as deadline passes
Japan promised Saturday not to give up “until the very end” on efforts to rescue two Japanese hostages threatened with beheading by militants...
As deadline passes for IS hostages, skepticism over ransom demand
The 72-hour deadline ISIS imposed on a $200 million ransom demand for the lives of two Japanese hostages passed on Friday, but intelligence officials and...
Hostage crisis: Analysts say Japan is target for militants
Japan’s hostage crisis is a stark reminder that Tokyo’s deep pockets and alliance with the US make it a target for Islamist militants, analysts...
Islamic State group reaches for Afghanistan and Pakistan to rival Al Qaeda, Taliban
Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and the focus of the longest war in U.S.
Sex slavery pushes Islamic State victims to suicide: Amnesty
Women and girls from Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State jihadist group have committed suicide or tried...
Record 17,000 rally against ‘Islamisation’ in Germany
On Monday, a record 17,000 anti-Islamic protesters rallied for their tenth demonstration in as many weeks in eastern Germany.
Yazidis cheer Kurds on Iraqi mountain for breaking Islamic State siege
Iraqi Kurdish fighters flashed victory signs as they swept across the northern side of Sinjar mountain on Saturday, two days after breaking through to...
IS executes 100 foreign fighters for trying to quit
The Islamic State extremist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the Financial...
U.S. Congress passes $584 billion defence bill, expands campaign against IS
The U.S. Congress on Friday sent President Barack Obama a massive U.S. defence policy bill that endorses his stepped-up military campaign of air strikes...
Britons who fought against IS in Syria are questioned by police on return to UK
Two British men who joined Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syria have told how they were treated as terrorism suspects on their return to...
'A war inside of Islam': The Jordanian town where IS's popularity grows
It’s a problem for one of the West’s biggest allies in the fight against the most radical group in the Middle East — the ideology of the...
Unexplained bullet wound and forced to clean toilets: Why a jihadist quit IS
Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May, expecting to be a fighter, but left when he was forced to do housework.
Islamic State group attacks Kobani from Turkey
The Islamic State group launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, a Kurdish official and activists said, although Turkey...
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