Tag: ISIL
Burkina Faso death toll rises to over 50
The death toll from a weekend attack on a gendarmerie post in northern Burkina Faso has risen to at least 53, according to officials.
The...
Global co-operation needed for counter-terrorism during and after pandemic
With Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and other terrorist groups attempting to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for their own ends, the international community...
ISIL continues to pose a serious challenge worldwide – UN counter-terror...
Despite serious military setbacks, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) may still have around 20,000 fighters and continues its...
ISIS taps into teen isolation
It's happening almost all over the world: Teenagers are lying to their parents, secretly saving up money, getting passports and sneaking away...
ISS: What the West must learn from George W Bush before...
Despite much commentary to the contrary, the Islamic State is steadily losing ground.
It has already lost three quarters of the border between...
France seeks international meeting to tackle Islamic State
French President Francois Hollande called on Wednesday for an international conference to discuss ways of tackling Islamic State insurgents who have seized...
Islamic State surges in North Iraq, near Kurdistan border
Islamist militants surged across northern Iraq toward the capital of the Kurdish region on Thursday, sending tens of thousands of Christians fleeing...
Islamic State seizes one of last Syria army bases in Raqqa
Militants from the hardline Islamic State group have seized one of the last remaining government bases in the northern province of Raqqa,...
Insight – Tunnelling through triangle of death, Islamic State aims at...
Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, Islamic State insurgents are getting dangerously close to...
Islamic State grabs Iraqi dam and oilfield in victory over Kurds
Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major...
Islamic State video wages psychological war on Iraqi soldiers
Islamic State, the al Qaeda spin-off that seized wide swathes of Iraq almost unopposed last month, has released a video warning Iraqi...
Sudanese Salafi group endorses Islamic State’s new caliphate
A Sudanese Salafi group in a statement on Thursday endorsed the Islamic State militant group that declared a caliphate after it swept...
Oil smuggling finances Islamic State’s new caliphate
Islamic State militants seized four small oilfields when they swept through north Iraq last month and are now selling crude oil and...
Insight – Islamic State crushes and coerces on march towards Baghdad
Using its own version of "soft" and "hard" power, the Islamic State is crushing resistance across northern Iraq so successfully that its...
U.N. accuses Islamic State of executions, rape, forced child recruitment in...
The United Nations accused Islamic State fighters in Iraq of executions, rape and forced recruitment of children during a campaign to seize...
Taliban debate merits of Islamic State’s caliphate announcement
The Afghan Taliban have urged Muslims to avoid extremism and remain united, a message apparently aimed at the Islamic State (ISIL), which...
Iraq parliament delayed for five weeks, general killed near Baghdad
Iraq's new parliament put off its next session for five weeks on Monday, extending the country's political paralysis amid a Sunni Islamist...
Islamic State extends gains in parts of Syria
Around 30 Islamic State fighters broke out of a makeshift jail where rival Syrian Islamists had been holding them, a monitoring group...
Militants free 32 Turkish truck drivers seized in Iraq
Thirty-two truck drivers abducted by Islamist militants in Iraq three weeks ago arrived home in Turkey on Thursday, and Turkish foreign minister...
Iraq army retakes Saddam Hussein’s home village from Islamist rebels
The Iraqi army drove Sunni insurgents out of late dictator Saddam Hussein's home village, state media and police said, part of a...
Growing concern in Muslim world about Islamist militancy – survey
Large majorities in Muslim countries are increasingly worried about Islamist militancy and oppose its best-known groups, such as the global al Qaeda...
Up to 45 killed in clashes in Iraqi holy city of...
Up to 45 people were killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and followers of a radical cleric in the holy Shi'ite...
Syria-Iraq ‘caliph’ incites Muslims to holy war
The leader of the al Qaeda offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms...
More than 2,400 Iraqis killed in June violence
More than 2,400 Iraqis, most of them civilians, were killed in June as Sunni militants swept through the north triggering the country's...
Sectarian genie is out of the bottle from Syria to Iraq
As jihadists storm through the Sunni heartlands of Iraq towards Baghdad, where a Shi'ite government they regard as heretic clings on, they...
Iraq helicopters fire on university campus in insurgent-held city
Iraqi helicopters fired on a university campus in Tikrit on Friday to dislodge insurgents who overran the city in an onslaught that...
ISIL staged ‘mass executions’ in Iraq’s Tikrit
Photograph and satellite imagery indicate that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents have carried out mass executions in the...
Militants take Iraqi gas field town, president calls parliament session
Militants took a town an hour from Baghdad that is home to four natural gas fields on Thursday, another gain by Sunni...
Militants attack Iraq air base, U.S. advisers arrive
Militants attacked one of Iraq's largest air bases and seized control of several small oilfields on Wednesday as U.S. military experts arrived...
More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in June
At least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed and roughly the same number injured in fighting and other violence in Iraq...
Jordan beefs up Iraq border defences as frontier post falls
Jordan beefed up its border defences with Iraq on Sunday after Sunni gunmen seized territory close to its border in Anbar province...
Iraq militants take Syria border post in drive for caliphate
Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a...
Battle for Iraq refinery as U.S. hesitates to strike
Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for...
UN investigators warn of wider sectarian war across Iraq, Syria
The Middle East appears on the brink of wider sectarian war engulfing Iraq and Syria with radical Islamist insurgents wantonly kidnapping, torturing...
Iraqi Islamists’ gains pose challenge to al Qaeda leader
If the battle in Iraq and Syria were being fought by tycoons rather than jihadis, it might be called a hostile takeover...
U.N. warns of increasing militant links between Iraq, Syria
The United Nations on Thursday warned about Islamist militant networks increasingly forging links across the border of Syria and Iraq, which is...
At least 14 Iraq SWAT forces killed in explosives-rigged house
At least 14 Iraqi SWAT forces were killed on Thursday when they entered a house rigged with explosives in the western province...
Iraqi forces, images testify to atrocities in new fighting
The video shows a male corpse lying in the dirt, one end of a rope tied around his legs, the other fastened...
Al Qaeda hijacks spirit of Syria revolt three years on
Syrian refugees in this border outpost were delighted to hear their home town of Azaz had been liberated - not from Bashar...
Al Qaeda splinter group denies killing Islamist rival in Syria
An al Qaeda splinter group in Syria has denied it was behind the killing of a prominent al Qaeda figure last week...
Al Qaeda splinter group withdraws from Syrian town near Turkey
Fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), withdrew from a rebel-held Syrian town...
3,300 people killed in Syria rebel infighting this year
About 3,300 people have been killed in fighting between rebel factions trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the start of...
Syrian al Qaeda group gives rival Islamists ultimatum
The head of al Qaeda's Syrian arm has given rival Islamist militants five days to accept mediation to end their infighting or...
Iraqi army fights to wrest northern town from militants
Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships fought on Saturday to retake full control of a northern town from militants who overran parts...
Al Qaeda splinter group executes 21 in Syria
An al Qaeda splinter group in Syria executed at least 21 people including fighters from rival rebel groups and their relatives, a...
Islamist insurgents seize parts of north Iraq town
Sunni Islamist insurgents took over parts of a town in northern Iraq on Thursday, local officials said, gaining further ground against the...
Al Qaeda splinter group withdraws from oil-rich Syrian province
An al Qaeda splinter group has withdrawn its forces from Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zor, activists and rebels said on...
Al Qaeda breaks link with Syrian militant group ISIL
Al Qaeda's general command said on Monday it had no links with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in...
Insight: After Syria, al Qaeda expanding in Lebanon
Faced with recent setbacks in Iraq and Syria, al Qaeda is slowly but firmly gaining influence in Lebanon, helped by the country's...
Baghdad bombs and shooting kill at least 19
Car bombs in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital and a shooting killed at least 19 people on Wednesday, police said,...
