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US, Iraq to initiate talks on end of US-led military coalition
The US has 2,500 troops in Iraq, advising and assisting local forces to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State, which in 2014 seized large parts of...
US-led coalition says 'paused' IS fight in Iraq after rockets
5 Jan 2020 3:12 PMOn Saturday, the coalition said its forces in Baghdad and in an airfield north of the capital had faced new attacks, bringing the total rocket strikes...
Medical tourists mistaken for IS suspects ‘deported’
22 Jan 2020 11:20 PMTwo Bangladeshi men who were picked up and detained by the Tamil Nadu police on suspicion of being IS operatives, left the police embarrassed when it...
IS remains at centre of transnational terrorism threat: UN
8 Feb 2020 5:18 AMVoronkov noted that the IS's re-constitution as a covert network in Syria follows a similar pattern as in Iraq since 2017.
IS men in TN planned forest base in K’taka for jihad in India: NIA
4 March 2020 8:51 PMAfter six days of grilling the 10 suspects involved in obtaining SIM cards with fake identity documents and helping IS activists, the NIA on Wednesday...
Islamic State calls COVID-19 God's punishment for foes - tape
29 May 2020 2:26 AMThe person on the tape, which was posted on one of the militants’ websites identified himself as IS spokesman Abu Hamzah al-Quraishi.
PM vows IS will never again overrun Iraqi territory
10 Jun 2020 10:08 PMThe Islamic State group will never again overrun Iraqi territory, Iraq's prime minister vowed Wednesday in an official visit to northern Iraq.
IS inmates stage riot in Kurdish-run Syrian prison
10 Sept 2020 6:59 AMThe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Kurdish security forces laid siege to the prison while warplanes of the US-led coalition hovered over the...