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Charlotte Littlewood speaks at a London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism event in this undated photo. (Lakruwan Rajapaksha/ London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism)
March 14, 2026, 2:17 pm
UK extremism expert: As Islamist narratives go mainstream, politicians fear confrontation
Charlotte Littlewood says Britain is losing an ‘uphill battle’ as groups like the Muslim Brotherhood use antisemitism as a strategic tool to undermine Western societies
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: German federal police guards at the border control station Kiefersfelden, southern Germany, May 15, 2025. (Michaela Stache / AFP)
November 5, 2025, 10:16 am
Germany bans Islamic group accused of calling for caliphate, inciting against Israel
Muslim Interaktiv to have assets confiscated; police search several properties belonging to two other Muslim groups as part of probe over similar allegations
By Reuters and ToI Staff
In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, terrorists of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)
December 18, 2020, 7:26 pm
After review, NYT admits podcast on Islamic State was inaccurate, unreliable
Paper says it should have done more to scrutinize reporting that relied on made-up testimony of Canadian man who pretended to have served as IS executioner in Syria
By ToI Staff
Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, appearing for the first time in five years, in a propaganda video released April 29, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
May 1, 2019, 8:34 pm
Post-caliphate, Islamic State leader turns to war of ‘attrition’ against enemies
Easter church and hotel terror attacks in Sri Lanka a week before his video appearance underscored in blood Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s new message
By Agencies
This image made from video posted on a militant website on April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP)
April 29, 2019, 8:55 pm
IS chief Baghdadi emerges on video for first time in five years
Terror leader admits battle for group’s last Syria stronghold over, says Sri Lanka bombings were revenge on West; notes Netanyahu winning Israeli vote as apparent proof clip is new
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)
March 23, 2019, 12:57 pm
The rise and fall of Islamic State, whose ‘caliphate’ is now said to be over
Key moments in the history of the terror group which at one point controlled territory the size of Britain in Syria and Iraq
By AP
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard next to men waiting to be screened after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (AP/Felipe Dana)
February 23, 2019, 11:11 am
Told to leave, IS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted
Hundreds, if not thousands, remain holed up in Baghouz — the last redoubt of the self-proclaimed Islamic State that leaders once said would stretch to Rome
By Sarah El Deeb
Fighters of the US-backed Kurdish-Arab coalition of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walk past destroyed buildings during an operation to expel Islamic State group (IS) jihadists from their last bastion, in Baghouz in eastern Syria on February 16, 2019. (Delil souleiman / AFP)
February 17, 2019, 2:34 pm
In east Syria, IS makes last stand to defend dying ‘caliphate’
Hundreds of civilians trapped as diehard jihadists fight in last Islamic State bastion in Syria
By Rouba El Husseini and Maya Gebeily
US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, MD, on February 15, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP)
February 17, 2019, 10:17 am
Trump demands Europe put IS fighters on trial
Despite warnings to the contrary from his generals, US president insists, ‘We are pulling back after 100% Caliphate victory!’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev, a 45-year-old Belarusian native and naturalised Irish citizen who was detained along with four other purported foreign jihadists by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), January 11, 2019. (Delil Souleiman / AFP)
January 30, 2019, 11:43 am
Captured Irish jihadist tells of dying days of Islamic State ‘caliphate’
Muslim convert describes starvation, bombing, fleeing through minefields with women and children before being captured by Kurds in Syria
By Delil Souleiman
Former Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad (c) speaks at a rally in Gaza on July 12, 2018. (Screen capture: MEMRI)
July 20, 2018, 2:31 pm
Senior Hamas member calls for ridding ‘Palestine of filth of the Jews’
Former interior minister Fathi Hammad says ‘by 2022 we will be rid of them’ and then the caliphate can be established
By ToI Staff
Supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate in Ramallah, July 7, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
April 22, 2018, 1:04 am
Islamist group accuses PA of blocking pro-Caliphate rally
Hizb ut-Tahrir says Palestinian Authority acting on orders of ‘infidels, occupiers and colonists’
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union's counter-terrorism coordinator, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Ankara, Turkey, November 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
November 30, 2017, 10:36 am
EU official: Despite losing ‘caliphate,’ Islamic State still a threat
Gilles de Kerchove says those inspired by ideology may become entrenched in other countries with ‘weak governance’
By Suzan Fraser
This file image made from video posted on a militant website July 5, 2014, shows the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. (AP/Militant video, File)
November 23, 2017, 8:18 pm
In ‘unprecedented’ hiatus, Islamic State media offline for a day
Terror group’s online propaganda channel usually posts a dozen messages a day, but has cut back on production over last few weeks
By AFP
A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by US special forces, monitors the area on the western frontline in Raqqa on October 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)
October 11, 2017, 2:43 pm
With IS surrounded, talks held on civilian exit from Raqqa
US-backed forces prepare final push to recapture de facto Syrian capital of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed caliphate
By Maya Gebeily
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