Tag Archives: Islamic State

Thursday, 30 March 2017 KUCHING: Teachers were today again advised not to have anything to do with the Daesh militants and their activities. Education Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said they should not be easily influenced by what they read in the social media over the group’s activities and so …

Friday, 17 March 2017 WASHINGTON – The 2 leaders stated they looked forward to deepening the US-Saudi Arabian defense partnership and continuing to work closely together. Also on Thursday, bin Salman said that Riyadh is at the forefront of the fight against extremism, adding that Saudi Arabia is “ready to do anything” to defeat terrorists threatening his country. …

Tuesday, 7 March 2017   BAGHDAD – Elite Iraqi security forces dislodged Islamic State militants from the main government building in Mosul on Tuesday, their last major city stronghold in Iraq, an Iraqi spokesman said. According to Lieutenant Colonel Abdel Amir al-Mohammadawi, a spokesman for the elite interior ministry unit, …

Friday, 3 March 2017   BEIRUT: The Syrian army said on Thursday it had recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Daish militants for the second time in a year, with help from allied forces and Russian warplanes. Daish seized Palmyra in a surprise advance in December, after having been …

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 BAGHDAD – U.S.-backed Iraqi army units on Wednesday took control of the last major road out of western Mosul that had been in Islamic State’s hands, a general and residents there said, trapping the militants in a dwindling area within the city. The army’s 9th Armoured …

Thursday, 23 February 2017 SOUTH OF MOSUL: A few hundred civilians have fled their homes in the outskirts of western Mosul, the first reported displacement since a U.S.-backed offensive on the jihadists’ remaining stronghold there began at the weekend. A Reuters correspondent saw about 200 women and children being transported …

Tuesday, 14 February 2017 Militants with the Islamic State group, which started pillaging the famed ancient Roman ruins in Palmyra, Syria, when taking control of the city in 2015, won’t stop doing so until all of its historical treasures are reduced to rubble, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement …

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 Despite reports to contrary, the leader of the so-called Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been injured in an air strike. The report from Tomlinson followed unconfirmed reports that al-Baghdadi had been critically injured in a air strike from a U.S.-led coalition. The claims, many of …

Friday, 20 January 2017 Yesterday, Daesh carried out mass executions in the same theater, according to Syrian state TV. The facade of the historical building is now completely destroyed, the full scale of the damages of the theater remains unknown. Palmyra was the capital of the Palmyrene Empire and one of the …

Friday, 6 January 2017 MANILA: Philippine security forces have killed the leader of a terrorist group with ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria also known as Islamic State (IS). Mohammad Jaafar Maguid, alias “Tokboy” (pic) , head of Ansar al-Khilafah Philippines, was killed in a police operation …