Twenty-five people have died in the attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State terrorist group, according to a statement on the group’s mouthpiece Amaq News agency. Read also: Kosovo government on verge of failing amid epidemic’s spread Eighty people who were in […]
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has knocked out some logistics facilities and other structures belonging to elements of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) at Bukar Meram on the fringes of the Lake Chad in Borno state. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, made this known in a […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians not to let terrorists divide the country along religious lines, following execution of some Christians and Muslims by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). The president made the call in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on […]
The United States (U.S) has once again demonstrated its commitment to routing terror insurgents as its U.S. military has launched new airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya. The VOA, reports noted that Africa Command spokesperson Robyn Mack said the strikes occurred on November 17 and 19 near Fuqaha “in coordination with the Libyan Government […]
The city of Raqqa has been liberated from Islamic State militants, a spokesman for a US-backed Syrian force has said. Soldiers raised a flag inside Raqqa stadium as a four-month battle to take Islamic State’s Syrian capital came to an end. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the jihadi militant group […]
At least 50,000 militants from so-called Islamic State have been killed since the US-led coalition started fighting in Iraq and Syria two years ago, a US military official has said. The senior official described the figure as a “conservative estimate”. The figure showed air power and a small number of US figures supporting local forces […]
At least 22 people were killed in explosions across Iraq late Sunday, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province, police and medical sources said. The deadliest attack came when a car packed with explosives was detonated at an army checkpoint near the town of al-Nukhaib, an outpost on […]
Boko Haram Insurgents have released the first images of their terror activities since pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Earlier this year the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, released a video saying the group had pledged allegiance to ISIS and would be dropping the name Boko Haram. Instead they now refer to […]
Malaysian authorities have arrested 17 people, including two who had recently returned from Syria, for allegedly plotting terror attacks in the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said in a Twitter message Monday that the 17 were arrested Sunday. He gave no further information, saying a statement would be issued later. The […]
Shelling and sporadic clashes struck a Palestinian refugee camp under attack by Islamic extremists in the Syrian capital on Monday, a situation that a UN official described as “beyond inhumane”. Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in an area just south of Damascus, said the Yarmouk camp was under attack on Monday. Both al-Dimashqi and the […]