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Suicide attack in Iraq's Sadr City kills at least 35, wounds dozens - sources

Reuters
Posted at Jul 20 10:40 AM

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said.   Read more »

Raid in Niger leaves eight dead: officials

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 30 07:44 AM

At least four members of the security forces and four civilians died in a jihadist raid against the major town in southeast Niger, near the Nigeria border, local authorities said Saturday. Read more »

18 Iraqis killed in multiple night-time jihadist raids

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 01 10:39 PM

Eighteen Iraqis, the majority military personnel, were killed overnight Friday to Saturday in separate jihadist attacks mainly in the greater Baghdad area, security sources told AFP. Read more »

12 people, possibly foreigners, beheaded in Mozambique

Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 08:30 PM

JOHANNESBURG - Twelve people, possibly foreigners, were found beheaded following an Islamic State-claimed attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near natural gas projects worth $60 billion, a local police commander told state TV station TVM. Read more »

Terror network behind Indonesian cathedral suicide bombing linked to 2019 Jolo blast

Andi Hajramurni, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 12:43 AM

The suicide bombing at an Indonesian cathedral on Sunday was carried out by members of a pro-Islamic State extremist group blamed for other church blasts, police said. Read more »

Pope Francis visits Iraqi Christians who suffered under IS

Catherine Marciano and Sarah Benhaida, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 07 04:12 PM

Pope Francis landed in northern Iraq on Sunday to cap his historic tour to the country with a visit to Christian communities that endured the brutality of a jihadist "caliphate". Read more »

Runaway schoolgirl who joined Islamic State cannot return to Britain, top court says

Michael Holden, Reuters
Posted at Feb 26 10:50 PM

LONDON - A UK-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State should not be allowed to return to Britain to challenge the government taking away her citizenship, because she poses a security risk, Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Friday. Read more »

Jordan jails 11 for joining Islamic State, planning attacks

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 01:21 AM

A Jordanian court on Wednesday handed heavy prison terms to 11 people convicted of joining the Islamic State group and of planning attacks against churches and security personnel in the kingdom.   Read more »

Anti-Terrorism Council tags CPP-NPA, Islamic State East Asia, Maute and associated groups as 'terrorists'

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 26 01:43 PM

MANILA (UPDATE) - The Anti-Terrorism Council has begun the controversial process of designating who may be considered by authorities as "terrorists" and "terrorist groups" under the new Anti-Terror law, which may have implications on freezing of assets. Read more »

Iraq hangs 21 on terrorism charges in latest mass executions

Reuters
Posted at Nov 17 04:23 AM

BAGHDAD - Iraq hanged 21 convicted terrorists and murderers on Monday, an interior ministry statement said, the latest in a series of mass executions it has carried out since defeating the Islamic State group in 2017.   Read more »

Austria admits security failings over Vienna gunman

Jastinder Khera, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 05 08:55 AM

Austria acknowledged Wednesday there had been security failings leading up to the deadly gun rampage in Vienna by a convicted Islamic State sympathizer. Read more »

4 dead in Vienna terrorist attack by Islamic State ‘sympathizer’

Katrin Bennhold, Melissa Eddy, Christopher F. Schuetze and Megan Specia, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 03 11:34 PM

Austria was grappling Tuesday with a brutal attack in which a gunman, whom officials described as an Islamic State sympathizer and who was wearing a fake explosive device, opened fire Monday night in the heart of Vienna, the capital, killing at least four people.   Read more »

Al-Qaeda and Islamic State: A 'fratricidal' clash

Didier Lauras, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 10 05:59 AM

Their ideology and methods differ so fundamentally that they are increasingly turning on each other. Read more »

Book Review: ‘The Battle of Marawi’ takes readers into the heart of armed conflict

Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 23 03:36 PM

“The Battle of Marawi” (Pawikan Press, 2020) is a vivid recounting of what transpired in the provincial capital of Lanao del Sur over six months in 2017. Read more »

Islamic State expanding globally amid setbacks, says US official

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 18 04:21 AM

The Islamic State group continues to expand globally with some 20 affiliates, despite being forced out of Syria and the killing of its leaders, a top US counter-terror official said Thursday. Read more »

Marawi rehab projects to be completed by December 2021: official

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 09 01:41 PM

The Philippine government's rehabilitation projects in Marawi, which was flattened after a five-month battle between Islamic State-inspired militants and state forces in 2017, are "on-track" and will be completed by December next year, an official said Wednesday. Read more »

Islamic State claims knife killing of Tunisian National Guard

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 08 04:40 AM

TUNIS - The Islamic State jihadist group Monday claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Tunisia the previous day which killed one National Guard officer and badly wounded another.   Read more »

PNP shuns senators' call to sack Jolo officers after Sulu blasts

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 03:24 PM

The chief of the Philippine National Police on Thursday rejected the call of 2 senators for the removal from their post of officers in Jolo, Sulu following the double bombing that killed at least 15 people there.  Read more »

Mindanao military official shuns martial law for Sulu

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 27 10:42 AM

A military official in the south rejected Thursday calls from higher-ups to place Sulu province under martial law after a double bombing killed at least 15 people there. Read more »

Kamag-anak? Military checks if Jolo suicide bombers, cops who killed soldiers have blood ties

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 10:15 AM

MANILA -- The military is investigating the suspected blood ties of 2 women who carried out a deadly double bombing in Jolo, Sulu this week and the policemen who earlier gunned down 4 soldiers, an official said Thursday.  Read more »