Islamic State

A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami watched "The Kerala Story" along with his wife, cabinet and party colleagues here and recommended it to everyone, saying the film promotes awareness about religious conversion and terrorism.

A 33-year-old Indian-American man has been charged in the US state of Virginia for transferring thousands of dollars to Islamic State women, hoping to smuggle them out of a Syrian refugee camp, a media report said.

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show. Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Fi...

'The Kerala Story', which puts spotlight on forced conversion & radicalisation of women in the state, has sparked a row. Amid protests, petitions challenging the film's release reached Supreme Court. The court has refused to intervene in the matter.

The political storm kicked up in Kerala by the controversial film 'The Kerala Story' continued to blow in the state, with the BJP claiming that recruitment into the Islamic State (IS) terror outfit from the southern state cannot be denied.

The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the "mastermind" behind a suicide attack at Kabul's international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of civilians.

The BJP today alleged that the MK Stalin government in Tamil Nadu is "poisoning the state with corruption" and said the party will seek a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the Chennai Metro Rail project.

Suspected Islamic State group fighters killed at least 31 people foraging for truffles in Syria on Sunday, a monitor said, in the latest such attack in the war-ravaged country.

Ukraine compared Russia on Wednesday to Islamic State, after a video emerged online showing apparent Russian soldiers filming themselves beheading a Ukrainian captive with a knife.

A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group near Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has carried out searches at five places in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra as part of its ongoing investigation to unravel a conspiracy hatched by the global terror group Islamic State to expand its activities.

The Taliban governor of Afghanistan's Balkh province, known for fighting against Islamic State jihadists, was killed in a suicide attack at his office on Thursday, officials said.

The nearly eight-year-old US deployment to Syria to combat Islamic State is still worth the risk, the top US military officer said on Saturday, after a rare, unannounced visit to a dusty base in the country's northeast to meet U.S. troops.

Shamima Begum was stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to Syria to marry an Islamic State group fighter lost her legal battle to reverse the decision on Wednesday.

A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami watched "The Kerala Story" along with his wife, cabinet and party colleagues here and recommended it to everyone, saying the film promotes awareness about religious conversion and terrorism.

A 33-year-old Indian-American man has been charged in the US state of Virginia for transferring thousands of dollars to Islamic State women, hoping to smuggle them out of a Syrian refugee camp, a media report said.

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show. Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Fi...

'The Kerala Story', which puts spotlight on forced conversion & radicalisation of women in the state, has sparked a row. Amid protests, petitions challenging the film's release reached Supreme Court. The court has refused to intervene in the matter.

The political storm kicked up in Kerala by the controversial film 'The Kerala Story' continued to blow in the state, with the BJP claiming that recruitment into the Islamic State (IS) terror outfit from the southern state cannot be denied.

The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the "mastermind" behind a suicide attack at Kabul's international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of civilians.

The BJP today alleged that the MK Stalin government in Tamil Nadu is "poisoning the state with corruption" and said the party will seek a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the Chennai Metro Rail project.

Suspected Islamic State group fighters killed at least 31 people foraging for truffles in Syria on Sunday, a monitor said, in the latest such attack in the war-ravaged country.

Ukraine compared Russia on Wednesday to Islamic State, after a video emerged online showing apparent Russian soldiers filming themselves beheading a Ukrainian captive with a knife.

A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group near Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has carried out searches at five places in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra as part of its ongoing investigation to unravel a conspiracy hatched by the global terror group Islamic State to expand its activities.

The Taliban governor of Afghanistan's Balkh province, known for fighting against Islamic State jihadists, was killed in a suicide attack at his office on Thursday, officials said.

The nearly eight-year-old US deployment to Syria to combat Islamic State is still worth the risk, the top US military officer said on Saturday, after a rare, unannounced visit to a dusty base in the country's northeast to meet U.S. troops.

Shamima Begum was stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to Syria to marry an Islamic State group fighter lost her legal battle to reverse the decision on Wednesday.