Daesh

Pakistan-based terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba are UN Security Council proscribed terror entities that need to be called out and condemned in the strongest possible terms, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as "an important moment" but said the fight against his group "is not yet over".

The first trial stemming from the November 2015 Paris terror attacks opens Wednesday when Jawad Bendaoud appears in court, charged with harbouring two of the jihadists in the aftermath of the carnage.

As soon as his cab arrived in an Islamic State safe house in December 2015, his lawyers say, Mohamad Khweis realized he had made a huge mistake.

Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when ISIS swept into Mosul and declared a "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the terrorists, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced Iraqis.

Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be the deputy of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State TV said on Saturday, citing Iraqi military intelligence. The US-led anti-ISIS coalition said it was unable at the moment to confirm the report.

Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before terrorists seized Iraq's second city.

The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

Twice raising the little finger represents "I" and placing a thumb on the index finger and the middle finger makes an "S" to signify ISIS, the terror group.

ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.

Much of the fighting for west Mosul will be at close quarters, but Iraq's battle against ISIS is also being waged in the open desert.

Australian counterterrorism police arrested an unidentified man after a raid on a countryside property on Tuesday and accused him of seeking to help the ISIS by developing missile technology, the first arrest of its kind in Australia.

US President Donald Trump's push against ISIS could present him with an unenviable choice: Alienate NATO ally Turkey by relying on Kurdish fighters or adopt a plan that may slow the assault and require many more US combat forces.

The Iraqi air force struck members of the ISIS group inside neighbouring Syria on Friday, officials said, adding that the targeted militants were responsible for recent bombings in Baghdad.

Iraqi forces,backed by jets and helicopters, battled their way to Mosul airport on Monday as they prepared to take on the ISIS' stronghold in the city's west bank.

Pakistan-based terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba are UN Security Council proscribed terror entities that need to be called out and condemned in the strongest possible terms, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as "an important moment" but said the fight against his group "is not yet over".

The first trial stemming from the November 2015 Paris terror attacks opens Wednesday when Jawad Bendaoud appears in court, charged with harbouring two of the jihadists in the aftermath of the carnage.

As soon as his cab arrived in an Islamic State safe house in December 2015, his lawyers say, Mohamad Khweis realized he had made a huge mistake.

Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when ISIS swept into Mosul and declared a "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the terrorists, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced Iraqis.

Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be the deputy of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State TV said on Saturday, citing Iraqi military intelligence. The US-led anti-ISIS coalition said it was unable at the moment to confirm the report.

Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before terrorists seized Iraq's second city.

The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

Twice raising the little finger represents "I" and placing a thumb on the index finger and the middle finger makes an "S" to signify ISIS, the terror group.

ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.

Much of the fighting for west Mosul will be at close quarters, but Iraq's battle against ISIS is also being waged in the open desert.

Australian counterterrorism police arrested an unidentified man after a raid on a countryside property on Tuesday and accused him of seeking to help the ISIS by developing missile technology, the first arrest of its kind in Australia.

US President Donald Trump's push against ISIS could present him with an unenviable choice: Alienate NATO ally Turkey by relying on Kurdish fighters or adopt a plan that may slow the assault and require many more US combat forces.

The Iraqi air force struck members of the ISIS group inside neighbouring Syria on Friday, officials said, adding that the targeted militants were responsible for recent bombings in Baghdad.

Iraqi forces,backed by jets and helicopters, battled their way to Mosul airport on Monday as they prepared to take on the ISIS' stronghold in the city's west bank.