155 Islamic State members, sympathisers arrested so far: Home Ministry
India | June 25, 2019 15:55 ISTA total of 155 members and sympathisers of banned terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) have been arrested in the country so far.
A total of 155 members and sympathisers of banned terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) have been arrested in the country so far.
During the searches, the agency seized 14 mobile phones, 29 SIM cards, 10 pen drives, three laptops, six memory cards, four hard disc drives, an internet dongle and 13 CDs/DVDs, besides one dagger, an electric baton, 300 air-gun pellets and a large number of incriminating documents, the NIA said in a statement.
Leader of ISIS module was also found to be friends with Zahran Hashim (Sri Lankan blast alleged mastermind) on Facebook.
Scores of masked men displaying Islamic State and Pakistan national flags appeared on Wednesday on the streets of the old city's Nowhatta area here in Jammu and Kashmir and raised pro-Pakistan slogans.
Leading international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has requested Sayyaf's transfer from Iraq to the US to face justice for her crimes. She told the UN Security Council in April that Sayyaf "locked them (the captives) in a room, instigated their beatings and put makeup on them to 'prepare them for rape'."
The first Kashmiri man to have joined the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has surrendered and is in the custody of US forces in Syria, according to his family. His family and mother are shattered with the news and are now running pillar to post to bring him back.
According to the CTD of Punjab police, separate teams raided whereabouts of the suspected terrorists in D G Khan and Sialkot districts and arrested the three terrorists on Sunday.
An Indian-origin man arrested a few years ago on his way to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and convicted of terror offences by a UK court last month was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment on Monday.
The UN has sanctioned ISIS' South Asia Branch, a terrorist group formed in 2015 by a Pakistani national and a former commander of the TTP, for its links with al-Qaeda and involvement in several deadly attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan that killed over 150 people.
The Arabic name of the new branch is "Wilayah of Hind" (India Province), the dreaded terror outfit, (also known as ISIS and ISIL), said through its Amaq News Agency.
Waqar Ul-Hassan, a naturalised US citizen who moved to America at the age of 15, was arrested at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina on Tuesday.
The man said to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the video also claimed the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka which killed over 250 people were "part of the revenge" that awaits the West.
"These persons are suspected to have links with some of the accused persons in the said case who had exited India to join the proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS/Daish," the NIA said in a statement.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday conducted raids at a few places in Hyderabad and arrested a youth for his alleged links with an ISIS module.
Unidentified gunmen donning uniforms of paramilitary soldiers on Thursday massacred 14 passengers after forcing them to disembark from buses on a highway in the restive Balochistan province.
In August 2018, the NIA had arrested two alleged ISIS sympathisers --Mohammed Abdullah Basith and Mohd Abdul Qhadeer -- from the city as part of its larger probe into Indian youngsters being radicalised to carry out terror strikes on behalf of the banned international outfit.
Five suspected ISIS militants were arrested Monday during a raid in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, police said.
The Islamic State terror group is plotting deadly attacks across Europe along the lines of the one carried out on a concert hall in Paris in which 130 people were killed four years ago, a leading British newspaper has reported.
After a series of conflicting reports, a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson confirmed the death of the newborn son of the UK’s runaway ISIS bride, Shamima Begum, in a refugee camp in Syria.
The ATS team reportedly detained at least nine people for questioning over their reported links with ISIS-inspired terror modules.
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