The Cultural Commission under the Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture said on Saturday: "Concerns expressed in this regard are, to some extent, baseless. Daesh has no support from the people in any part of Afghanistan."
October 17, 2021A series of bombings were launched by the IS-affiliated militants in recent weeks.
October 16, 2021The plea said after reaching Afghanistan, Ayisha's husband was killed in the war. "The 1st and the 2nd detenue who accompanied A1 (the husband) and was actively not involved in the fight there after his death had to surrender to the Afghan forces on November 15, 2019, along with some other women..."
August 2, 2021Pompeo had described Iran as the largest state sponsor of terror while pointing out that the Indian people have suffered from the menace across the globe.
June 28, 2019Nadia Murad is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others. She has shown uncommon courage in recounting her own sufferings and speaking up on behalf of other victims.
October 5, 2018Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday expressed anguish over the killing of 39 Indians, including four from the hill state, held hostage by IS in Iraq’s Mosul. He expressed his deep condolence with the bereaved families and said the state government was with them at this hour of distress. Thakur said this …
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March 21, 2018At least five Islamic State militants were killed in an airstrike in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the Special Forces said on Monday. As a result of an airstrike launched by Afghan Special Operation Forces in district Dih Bala, Nangarhar province on Sunday evening, five militants from the IS died and two IS fighters wounded, …
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January 1, 2018A Swiss court has given a 31-year-old woman a partially suspended 18-month jail sentence after she tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The woman from Winterthur on Friday appeared before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona near the Italian border, the Swiss news agency, ATS, reported where prosecutors …
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December 16, 2017The death toll in a terrorist attack on a mosque on Friday in Egypt’s North Sinai has risen to 305 killed, including 27 children, and 128 others were wounded, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday. “The attackers of the mosque were carrying the Islamic State flag,” MENA quoted the statement of the country’s general …
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November 26, 2017Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the victory over the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria is a defeat of the US in the region, a media report said. He said the victory over the IS is tantamount to the defeat of plots to sow division and wage a civil …
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November 22, 2017Dismissing reports of the Islamic State gaining a foothold in Kashmir, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that Indian Muslims would never allow terrorist outfits such as IS to have a base in the country. Singh also said he has complete faith in the Indian youth that they would not let IS misled them. …
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November 21, 2017At least 35 civilians were killed on Friday by an Islamic State suicide bombing in eastern Syria, pro-government Sham FM radio reported. The IS suicide bombing targeted a checkpoint of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in an area between the Conico and Jafra energy fields in the northeastern countryside of Deir al-Zour province in …
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November 17, 2017Italian authorities said they have deported a 22-year-old Egyptian woman who hoped to fight for the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in a war zone and was awaiting IS orders to carry out a suicide attack on national soil. Milan’s police chief had ordered the woman’s immediate expulsion from Italy on national security grounds, Italian …
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November 14, 2017The Turkish police on Sunday detained at least 34 Islamic State (IS) suspects in counter-terrorism operations across the city. The suspects were reportedly planning to carry out attacks and had previously fought for the militant group, reports Xinhua news agency Digital material and documents linked to the group were also seized in the operations. The …
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November 13, 2017Mass graves containing the remains of civilians executed by the Islamic State (IS) terror group have been found in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk, the media reported. The mass graves were discovered in the al-Bakara area, about 3 km north of the city of Hawija, reports CNN. The area was an American base prior to …
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November 12, 2017The Union Home Ministry, as part of an administrative rejig, has formed two new divisions to exclusively deal with emerging security challenges such as radicalisation and cyber crime, an official said on Friday. The two divisions called Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Radicalisation (CTCR) and Cyber and Information Security (CIS) also encompass merger of some of the ministry’s …
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November 11, 2017US President Donald Trump warned on Friday that the Islamic State will pay a high price for its attacks against this country, after the terrorist group asserted that the suspected perpetrator of the attack last Tuesday in New York is one of its soldiers. In a series of tweets, Trump accepted that IS claim, aired …
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November 3, 2017