Popular Front of India (PFI), its office bearers, members and affiliates in Kerala encouraged vulnerable youths to join terrorist organisations including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Daesh and Al-Qaida and also conspired to establish Islamic rule in India by committing a terrorist act, reveals NIA […]
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PFI office bearers were recruiting Muslim youth to join proscribed organisations like ISIS: NIA
Office bearers, members and cadres of the Popular Front of India (PFI) along with others were involved in radicalizing and recruiting Muslim youth to join proscribed organisations like ISIS, the Nationa Investigation Agency (NIA) revealed while seeking remand of the accused arrested a day ago in its first-ever mega operation […]
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ISIS, Al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan puts world in grave danger: Ex-adviser to US national security body
The rapid growth of ISIS and the Al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan has put not only Afghanistan but also the region and the rest of the world in grave danger, John Bolton, a former adviser to the US National Security Council said in an interview with Voice of America, local media reported. Speaking at […]
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UP ATS arrests terrorist with ISIS links for planning attack on Independence Day
The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Tuesday arrested a terrorist with Islamic State (ISIS) links from Mubarakpur in Azamgarh, who was planning an IED blast on Independence Day. According to an official release, the man has been identified as Sabauddin Azmi alias Dilawar Khan alias Bairam Khan alias Azar, […]
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‘ISIS trying to regroup in Afghanistan’ : Report
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley on Tuesday said that the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups are trying to regroup in Afghanistan, highlighting that although the groups are far from the US mainland, they still present a threat. The US General made the remarks […]
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Think-tank warns of ISIS’ expansion to Central Asia; potentially reach Russia, China
A Canada-based think tank in its research paper has warned of a greater threat with the Islamist terrorist groups from Syria and Iraq relocating and turning their focus towards the Central Asian states, taking advantage of their relevance as raw materials supplier and their strategic location, that could potentially spill […]
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According to a US assessment on terrorism, ISIS has 66 known Indian fighters.
There were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with the global terrorist group Islamic State, the latest U.S. State Department report on terrorism has said as it commended India’s counterterrorism forces, including the NIA, for actively detecting and disrupting transnational and regional terror forces. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in […]
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German court sentences ISIS bride to 10 years in prison over war crime
A German woman who had joined the Islamic State group in 2013, was sentenced to ten years in prison over a war crime by a Munich court on Monday. A Munich court presided by judge Reinhold Baier handed down the verdict to Jennifer Wenisch, 30, over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun, […]
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ISIS is a ‘headache’ not ‘threat’: Taliban
Downplaying the threat posed by ISIS in Afghanistan, the Taliban stated that saying that the group would soon be suppressed. “We don’t call Daesh a threat, but we call it a headache,” the Taliban’s Minister of Information and Culture Zabiullah Mujahid was quoted by TOLO News as saying. “It creates headaches in some places but is […]
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ISIS Case: NIA raids underway in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at five locations in Delhi, Kerala, and Karnataka in connection with the ISIS-related cases said sources.
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‘We aren’t impressed’: US official calls new ISIS chief ‘a nobody’
The new leader of the Islamic State group is “a nobody” with little apparent reputation but the United States hopes he will be killed soon, a US official said Wednesday. The group last week announced Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new leader after a US commando raid killed Abu […]
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ISIS group attempted suicide attack in India last year, says US official
The Khorasan group of the ISIS or the ISIS-K, which operates in south Asia, last year attempted a suicide attack in India, a top American official has told lawmakers. In fact, of all the branches of the ISIS, ISIS-K is the outfit that is of the most concern to the […]
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US releases video, photos of raid on ISIS chief Baghdadi in Syria
The Pentagon released video and photos on Wednesday of the US special forces raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Among the images released by the Defence Department was grainy black-and-white footage of US troops approaching on foot the high-walled compound in northwestern […]