foreign fighters in Syria

Sayyaf Sharif Daoud, an Arab Israeli who traveled to Syria to join IS, speaks with Al Arabiya. (video screenshot)

August 1, 2019, 1:08 pm

Israeli Islamic State fighter captured in Syria asks Netanyahu to bring him home

Speaking Hebrew, Sayyaf Sharif Daoud requests PM’s intervention, noting that Jerusalem works to secure release of IDF soldiers held in captivity

By TOI staff

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, in the capital Tehran on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)

March 26, 2019, 10:11 pm

US targets ‘vast’ IRGC-linked network on Iran sanctions evasion

Treasury identifies four front companies for Iran’s Ansar Bank that sent some $800m used to pay foreign fighters, especially in Syria

By Matthew Lee

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

Illustrative: A man lies on the sidewalk near the Cafe Bonne Biere in Paris, following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris that left more than 120 dead, on November 13, 2015. (AFP/Anthony Dorfmann)

February 21, 2019, 7:44 pm

Top French jihadist believed killed in Syria

Fabien Clain spoke in IS recording claiming responsibility for 2015 Paris attacks; sources say he was killed in terror group’s last stronghold

By AFP

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

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