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  • syria rebel training could start in early spring

    Syria rebel training could start in early spring

    World | Jan 07, 2015, 07:00 AM IST

    Washington: The long-awaited coalition program to train the Syrian moderate opposition could begin by early spring, and officials are beginning to identify individual fighters who could participate, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.Navy Rear Admiral John

  • 11 soldiers 24 terrorists die in iraq combat

    11 soldiers, 24 terrorists die in Iraq combat

    World | Jan 05, 2015, 06:35 AM IST

    Baghdad: At least 11 soldiers and pro-governmental volunteer militia members died Sunday in a military operation launched against the radical Islamic State (IS) terrorists, which lost 24 of fighters in an air strike in Iraq.An

  • is twitter account handler mehdi masroor biswas was in

    IS Twitter account handler Mehdi Masroor Biswas was in touch with ISIS combatant in Iraq: Cops

    India | Jan 02, 2015, 11:51 PM IST

    Bengaluru: Alleged pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account handler Mehdi Masroor Biswas was in touch with ISIS combatant stationed in Iraq, a top police official said."During our interrogation of Biswas, we have found that the IS

  • gunmen kill 3 sunni clerics in iraqi city of basra

    Gunmen kill 3 Sunni clerics in Iraqi city of Basra

    World | Jan 02, 2015, 03:06 PM IST

    Baghdad: Gunmen killed three Sunni clerics near the mostly Shiite city of Basra in southern Iraq, a government spokesman said Friday, an apparent sectarian attack that drew immediate calls for calm.Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan

  • govt blocks 32 websites carrying anti india content from

    Govt blocks 32 websites carrying anti-India content from Islamic State

    India | Jan 01, 2015, 12:50 PM IST

    New Delhi: Government has blocked 32 websites citing national security concerns, as they were allegedly carrying anti-India material from terror groups such as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)."We have blocked some websites, as

  • is executes own fighters fleeing jihad

    IS executes own fighters fleeing jihad

    World | Dec 30, 2014, 09:02 AM IST

    Damascus: Once a person joins the jihad, there is no turning back. That is the fact of life the Islamic State (IS) seems to be enforcing by executing up to 200 of its own fighters

  • women excised from public life abused by isis

    Women excised from public life, abused by ISIS

    World | Dec 23, 2014, 02:46 PM IST

    Beirut: The gunmen came to the all-girls' elementary school in the Iraqi city of Fallujah at midday with a special delivery: piles of long black robes with gloves and face veils, now required dress code

  • top 5 mausoleums of the world

    Top 5 mausoleums of the world

    World | Jan 04, 2015, 12:09 PM IST

    New Delhi:  There  are  different ways of funeral in different parts of the world.While in India some people burn the dead ones and immerse the  mortal remains in the holy river, the Tibetan Buddhists dispose

  • isis executes 150 women for not accepting jihad marriage

    ISIS executes 150 women for not accepting jihad marriage

    World | Dec 18, 2014, 07:56 AM IST

    New Delhi: In yet another show of naked brutality, the terror outfit, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), has executed at least 150 women in Iraq after they refuse to accept jihad marriage.A

  • mehdi extremely radicalised believes beheading correct

    'Mehdi extremely radicalised; believes beheading correct'

    India | Dec 15, 2014, 08:23 PM IST

    New Delhi: Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who is alleged to have been operating a pro-ISIS twitter account, has been dubbed by his interrogators as an extremely radicalised youth who believes that beheading of the “enemy” and

  • is militants bomb homes of military and police in iraq

    IS militants bomb homes of military and police in Iraq

    World | Dec 12, 2014, 07:24 AM IST

    Baghdad: Islamic State (IS) militants blew up the homes of Iraqi military and police personnel as well as members of the Shabak religious minority Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.A spokesman for the

  • switzerland orders community service for returned is

    Switzerland orders community service for returned IS Jihadist

    World | Dec 11, 2014, 09:32 AM IST

    Geneva: Switzerland has ordered a returned recruit of the Islamic State group to do 600 hours of community service and will not send him to prison, in the country's first sentencing of a foreign jihadist

  • attack on police station in iraq kills 9 people

    Attack on police station in Iraq kills 9 people

    World | Dec 07, 2014, 04:05 PM IST

    Baghdad: Militants attacked a police station in an Iraqi village north of Baghdad, killing at least nine people Sunday, officials said.The attack started at dawn with a suicide car bomber hitting the blast walls that

  • sushma swaraj meets families of 40 indians held captive in

    Sushma Swaraj meets families of 40 Indians held captive in Iraq

    Politics | Dec 05, 2014, 10:36 PM IST

    New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met the families of 40 Indians held captive in strife-torn Iraq for last six months, assuring them that, as per government's information, the nationals were alive and

  • 2 car bomb attacks kill 21 people in iraq

    2 car bomb attacks kill 21 people in Iraq

    World | Dec 04, 2014, 11:23 PM IST

    Baghdad: A series of car bomb attacks at a group of restaurants and a market on Thursday killed 21 people in Baghdad, said Iraqi officials. Police officials said the first attack targeted a line of

  • us partners continue airstrikes against is

    US, partners continue airstrikes against IS

    World | Dec 04, 2014, 12:20 PM IST

    Washington: The US and its partner nations continued to attack Islamic State (IS) forces over the past three days using fighters and bombers to conduct 14 airstrikes.Separately, US and partner-nation military forces conducted 11 airstrikes

  • many women desperate to be is fighters jihadi brides study

    Many women desperate to be IS fighters' jihadi brides: Study

    World | Dec 03, 2014, 02:42 PM IST

    London:  The Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria may be demonised by the world community for their terrorist activities but there are those who look up to them.Some among the admirers of the IS happen

  • us iraqis helping to train sunni fighters against is us

    US, Iraqis helping to train Sunni fighters against IS: US

    World | Dec 03, 2014, 09:59 AM IST

    Brussels: US forces and their Iraqi counterparts have trained about 2,000 Sunni fighters in Iraq as part of efforts to defeat the Islamic State extremist group, a senior US official said today.Iraq's Shiite-led government, trying

  • isis had suspected 4 kalyan youths of being security agents

    ISIS had suspected 4 Kalyan youths of being security agents

    India | Dec 02, 2014, 08:03 AM IST

    Mumbai: Areeb Majeed, suspected member of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has claimed that the cadres of the terror outfit were initially suspicious about him and his three friends of being associated with

  • indian youths attracted to isis a matter of concern rajnath

    Indian youths attracted to ISIS a matter of concern: Rajnath

    Politics | Nov 29, 2014, 04:27 PM IST

    Guwahati: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today expressed concern over the fact that some Indian youths have been attracted to terror group ISIS and said the government takes it as a challenge that cannot be left

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