Daesh

Daesh group militants killed eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in Syria's Badia desert, a war monitor reported Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack occurred on…
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The US Central Command said on Wednesday it had conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed a senior Daesh official and facilitator named Usamah Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Janabi. “His death will disrupt Daesh’s ability to resource and…
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The United States slapped sanctions Friday on four individuals with ties to the Daesh group following an investigation with Turkiye, the Treasury Department said. The sanctions target three supporters of a human smuggling gang linked to…
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It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul’s Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Daesh militants had become since it was liberated in 2017. “I thought…
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The Kurdish Regional Security Council announced in a statement on Friday that it captured a senior Daesh figure, Socrates Khalil. Khalil was known to be a confidant of the late Daesh leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. “After spending five…
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Daesh claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on Monday targeting an army post in northern Iraq which security sources said had killed a commanding officer and four soldiers. The attack took place between Diyala and Salahuddin…
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An Iraqi commanding officer and four soldiers were killed and five others injured on Monday in an attack by suspected Daesh militants on an army post in eastern Iraq, two security sources said. The attack took place between Diyala and…
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German police have arrested an Iraqi couple alleged to be Daesh members, on suspicion of genocide and crimes against humanity for enslaving two Yazidi girls, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Twana H. S. and Asia R. A., whose…
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A United Nations mission set up to help Iraq investigate alleged Daesh genocide and war crimes is being forced to shut prematurely before it can finish its probes, following a souring of its relationship with the Iraqi government. The…
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French prosecutors have recommended that cement maker Lafarge stand trial on charges of terrorism financing over its past activities in Syria, a source close to the case told AFP Friday. France’s anti-terror prosecution unit (PNAT) wants…
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