Daesh women
5 women terrorists of Daesh nabbed
LAHORE: CTD has claimed to have nabbed 3 women terrorists from the Walled City and 2 from Sheikhupura belonging to the militant outfit Daesh during IBOs carried on Saturday (2nd…
Terrorists
CTD arrests 21 ‘terrorists’
LAHORE: The Counter- Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab has arrested 21 alleged terrorists, including nine Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and four Daesh commanders, during intelligence-based operations, in the wake of terrorism incidents…
CPEC
Pak-China ‘Rapid Response System’ countering disinformation, propaganda against CPEC
LAHORE: Renowned former Russian World Chess Champion, writer and political activist Garry Kasparov had said, “ the point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It…
Rehman Malik
Rehman Malik says India is Daesh hub; endangers peace in South Asia
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A. Rehman Malik has said that Indian was turned into a hub of Daesh operators working with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which…
UNSC
Pakistan urges UNSC to also focus on Hindutva terrorism while combating Qaeda, Da’esh
UNITED NATIONS: A top Pakistani diplomat has called on the UN Security Council to shift some of its focus on combating Al-Qaeda and ISIS/ Da'esh to Hindutva extremists in India…
Daesh terrorist nabbed in Karachi
KARACHI: An alleged terrorist affiliated with the extremist group Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh, was arrested in a joint operation on Friday. The operation was conducted by the…
Tik Tok accounts posting Daesh propaganda videos taken down
BEIJING: Not less than ten videos propagating the Daesh message has been removed from the Social Media App Tik Tok. Owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, Tik Tok was used by…
Torture still practiced in Afghan detention centres
Torture still practiced in Afghan detention centres: UN report
UNITED NATIONS: Torture is still widespread in Afghanistan’s State-run prisons for detainees linked to ongoing conflict there, the UN noted, while also noting an “encouraging reduction” in the level of…
Police arrest five IS militants in Karachi raid
KARACHI: Five terrorists, associated with the outlawed Islamic State (IS) group were arrested during a raid in the Gulshan-e-Maymar area of the metropolitan, police said. According to SSP Malir, the…
Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis freed from IS to Iraq
Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis freed from IS to Iraq
SYRIA: Syrian Kurds on Saturday repatriated 25 women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority after freeing them during the final push against the Islamic State group, a local official said.…
Turkey sentences Australian IS member to 7.5 years in prison
Turkey sentences Australian IS member to 7.5 years in prison
ANKARA: Turkey on Friday sentenced an Australian national to seven years and six months in prison for joining the Islamic State (IS) militant group. Neil Christopher Prakash was arrested in…
Mosul
Two killed in car bomb attack in Iraq’s Mosul
MOSUL: Two people were killed in a car bomb outside a restaurant in Iraq's Mosul late Friday, security forces said, in the second such incident in around a week. A…
US withdrawal from Syria
As hundreds of US troops stay in Syria, Trump insists no U-turn
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump insisted Friday he was not pulling an about-face on his Syria withdrawal plans, after it was announced hundreds of US troops would remain in the war-torn…
US troops Afghanistan Exit
200 troops to stay in Syria after pullout: White House
WASHINGTON: The U.S. will keep about 200 troops in Syria for an as yet undetermined amount of time following a planned pullout of U.S. forces, the White House said Thursday.…
Russia pioneering return of ISIS children
Russia pioneering return of ‘ISIS children’
MOSCOW: As the end nears for the IS enclave in Syria and the fate of jihadists' family members becomes a prescient issue, Russia can be seen as a pioneer in…
UN warns against any complacency as ISIL
UN warns against any complacency as ISIL/Da’esh terrorists remain ‘global threat’
UNITED NATIONS: A new U.N. report to the Security Council shows that ISIL/Da'esh is still a global threat, despite the decline in the number of attacks worldwide during 2018. Noting…
pompeo
Pompeo tells allies US still committed to fight IS
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the United States remained committed to permanently destroying the Islamic State group despite pulling forces from Syria, as he asked concerned…
US backed Syria force says captures foreign jihadists daily
US-backed Syria force says captures foreign jihadists ‘daily’
BEIRUT: US-backed forces in Syria said Wednesday they were detaining foreign Islamic State group fighters on a "daily basis", days after confirming the capture of German jihadist Martin Lemke. Media…
Trump expects 100 percent of IS caliphate defeated in week
Trump expects ‘100 percent’ of IS caliphate defeated in week
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expected the Islamic State group to lose all remaining territory in Syria in a week as he pledged to stay focused…
197 Syrian civilians killed last month
197 Syrian civilians killed last month: UK-based NGO
ANKARA: At least 197 civilians were killed in war-ravaged Syria in January, according to a monthly report released Friday by a London-based rights watchdog. In its report, the Syrian Network…
Four police dead in back to back bomb blasts in Iraq
Four police dead in back-to-back bomb blasts in Iraq
SAMARRA: Four Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts north of the capital, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. "At around 8:00…
Kurd led forces overrun last IS held village in Syria
Kurd-led forces overrun last IS-held village in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT: Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border "caliphate" to two small hamlets, a war monitor…
ISIS
IS key commander arrested in northern Afghanistan
MAIMANA: An eminent commander of the hardliner Islamic State (IS) was arrested in Maimana, the capital city of Afghanistan's northern Faryab province on Friday, an army spokesman in the northern…
United Nations new envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen
New UN envoy arrives in Damascus on first Syria trip
DAMASCUS: The United Nations' new envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, arrived in Damascus on Tuesday on his first trip since being appointed, an international media source confirmed Tuesday. The seasoned…