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Satellite image showing the result of a an airstrike on a military facility in Syria, September 4, 2018. (ImageSat International)
September 6, 2018, 5:01 am
Satellite images show damage at Syria site from raid attributed to Israel
Explosions destroy two large hangars and reveal tunnel entrances leading underground, says imaging service
By TOI staff
Illustrative image of a tank flying the Hezbollah terror group's flag seen in the Qara area in Syria's Qalamoun region on August 28, 2017 (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)
June 9, 2018, 12:55 am
To avoid Israeli strikes, Iran-backed fighters said disguising selves as Syrians
Rebel commanders tell Wall Street Journal that Hezbollah and other militias have left areas near Israeli border, only to return under Syrian regime flag, with rockets and missiles
By TOI staff
Iranian pro-government supporters burn the Israeli and US flags during a rally Mashhad in support of the regime after authorities declared the end of the recent protests, on January 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tasnim News/Nima Najafzadeh)
April 11, 2018, 7:10 pm
After airstrike in Syria, an Israeli proxy war with Iran looms
Jerusalem continues to thwart Tehran’s efforts to entrench itself in Syria, and analysts are predicting the ‘worst war the region has seen in decades’
By Raphael Ahren
In this file picture taken on Friday, July 21, 2017, Kurdish soldiers from the Anti-Terrorism Units, carry a blindfolded an Indonesian man suspected of Islamic State membership, at a security center, in Kobani, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
February 12, 2018, 9:05 am
US pushes for home countries to take back Islamic State detainees in Syria
Western nations weighing options for foreign fighters who joined terrorist group and are now being held by Syrian Democratic Forces
By Lolita C. Baldor
A fighter of a Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, Monday, July 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
February 7, 2018, 5:27 am
UN experts: Islamic State still poses world threat
Largely defeated in Syria and Iraq, jihadist terror group is entering a new phase but remains fully capable of inflicting harm, panel says
By Edith M. Lederer
Laura Hansen (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 13, 2017, 6:05 pm
Dutch woman convicted of terrorism for joining IS
22-year-old convert to Islam receives 2-year prison sentence for traveling to Syria to join terror group with her partner, children
By AFP
In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave flags on their vehicles, in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, from Raqqa, Syria. (Militant website via AP)
June 22, 2017, 5:57 pm
US-led coalition building global jihadist database, envoy reveals
Information-sharing mechanism meant to help identify foreign fighters for Islamic State once they return to their home countries
By AFP
This undated photo released by the Turkistan Islamic Party, a militant website, shows fighters from the group at an unknown location in Syria. (Turkistan Islamic Party website via AP)
April 23, 2017, 1:49 am
Chinese jihadis’ rise in Syria raise concerns at home
Organized, battle-hardened and numbering in the thousands, members of the Turkistan Islamic Party have fought in the ranks of al-Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist groups
By Bassem Mroue and Gerry Shih
UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman in 2014 (YouTube screenshot)
February 8, 2017, 6:39 am
UN urges sharing of airline passenger info in anti-terror fight
Political chief tells Security Council world must improve response to growing threat of ‘transnational terrorism’
By Edith M. Lederer
Illustrative photo of a Spanish Civil Guard policeman detaining a suspect in Madrid, Spain. February 17, 2016 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
January 16, 2017, 3:26 pm
Spain holds boxing coach suspected of recruiting jihadists
Instructor alleged to be head of cell that sent foreign fighters to Turkey in order to receive attack instructions from IS
By Agencies
This hand out picture released by the Turkish police and taken from Dogan News Agency on January 2, 2017 shows the main suspect in the Reina nightclub rampage one day after a gunman killed 39 people, including many foreigners, in an attack at an upmarket nightclub in Istanbul where revellers were celebrating the New Year. AFP/Dogan News Agency / Handout)
January 3, 2017, 4:54 pm
Wanted Istanbul terrorist ‘fought for IS in Syria’
Turkish media reports gunman was well-trained and ‘specially selected’ by Islamic State to carry out shooting rampage
By Stuart Williams
This image made from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows a student wearing a gas mask and protective suit during a classroom session on how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo, Syria (photo credit: AP)
January 2, 2017, 10:25 am
UK minister warns IS plotting chemical attack in Europe
Following reports it used mustard gas in Iraq and Syria, terror group believed to have ‘aspirations’ to carry out a ‘mass-casualty’ strike
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of Russian special force soldiers during an anti-terrorist operation in Makhachkala, the regional capital of Dagestan, Russia, on January 20, 2014. (Abdula Magomedov/NewsTeam via AP, File)
December 15, 2016, 3:25 pm
Russia says it foiled IS-linked attacks on Moscow
Operation alleged to have been orchestrated from Turkey; local Islamic State branch has previously struck in country
By AP
Dutch policemen stand guard by a cordoned off area outside Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport late on April 12, 2016. (AFP/ANP/Michel van Bergen)
November 14, 2016, 6:53 pm
Dutch concerned IS collapse could see terror threat rise at home
Number of returning fighters will ‘pick up’ if jihadist group defeated in Iraq and Syria, counterterror bureau warns
By AFP
An Islamic State recruitment video calls on others to join in their holy war (screen capture: Youtube)
October 6, 2016, 3:27 am
IS recruits are relatively well-educated, not driven by poverty
World Bank study debunks assumptions about terror group, finds that proportion of suicide fighters among recruits increases with education
By AFP and TOI staff
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