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Illustrative: A trio of skyscrapers in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. October 11, 2019. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
January 27, 2026, 12:45 pm
Azerbaijan arrests 3 men for planning attack on Israeli embassy at behest of ISIS
Authorities say men obtained weapons and planned to attack the mission in Baku on the basis of religious hostility
By Lazar Berman and Reuters
An Islamic State flag lies on the ground rolled up behind the pickup truck that Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
January 4, 2025, 10:56 am
Deadly New Orleans ramming attack may be sign of possible Islamic State comeback
International terror group doubles pace of attacks in 2024; geopolitical instability provides opening for regrouping
By Reuters
FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
April 11, 2024, 3:13 pm
After ISIS attack in Moscow, FBI chief warns similar plans may be brewing in US
Christopher Wray set to tell Congress that never in his career have threats to public safety and national security been so significant
By Andrew Goudsward
Ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic missions accredited in Russia stand at attention as they attend a flower laying ceremony at the memorial in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue a week after the attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow on March 30, 2024. (SERGEI ILNITSKY / POOL / AFP)
April 1, 2024, 3:59 pm
Iran alerted Russia to security threat before Moscow attack, sources say
Tehran gained information from suspects linked to Kerman bombing in Iran, but material it provided to Russians lacked specific details of ISIS-Khorasan plans
By Parisa Hafezi
People gather at the site of an explosion in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles (820 kilometers) southeast of Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2024. (Sare Tajalli/ISNA via AP)
January 25, 2024, 10:37 pm
US warned Iran ahead of deadly ISIS suicide bombings which killed 95 people
Though countries don’t have diplomatic relations, US official says message given as part of ‘duty to warn’ governments over potential threats, desire to avoid deaths of innocents
By AAMER MADHANI
People attend the funeral ceremony of the victims of Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, January 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 9, 2024, 4:16 pm
Why Islamic State attacked Iran on the anniversary of Soleimani’s death
Last week’s bombing near the grave of the Quds Force general that killed 84 is the latest episode in ISIS’s war on Shiite Muslims
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Policemen stand in front of the Cologne Cathedral on December 24, 2023. (INA FASSBENDER/AFP)
December 31, 2023, 11:57 pm
German police thwart suspected Islamist attack on Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve
Three suspects with links to an Afghanistan offshoot of ISIS arrested, festivities expected to continue uninterrupted, but with significantly increased security measures
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the 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. (Hussein Malla/AP)
August 15, 2023, 11:16 am
UN: Islamic State still has thousands of fighters across Syria and Iraq
Report from United Nations panel says members of group’s sleeper cells pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today
By Edith M. Lederer
Taliban security forces block a road after a suicide blast near Afghanistan's foreign ministry at the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on January 11, 2023. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
January 11, 2023, 8:55 pm
Five killed, dozens wounded by suicide blast near Afghan foreign ministry
Taliban claims to have improved security since storming back to power in 2021, but there have been scores of attacks, many claimed by local Islamic State chapter
By Estelle Emonet and Aysha Safi
Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
June 5, 2022, 3:31 am
Al-Qaeda again finding a safe haven in Afghanistan under Taliban, UN report warns
Islamic State now poses main military threat to new Afghan rulers as they try to consolidate hold over war-torn country
By Edith M. Lederer
A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the August 26 twin suicide bombs, which killed scores of people including 13 US troops, at Kabul airport on August 27, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
February 7, 2022, 10:52 pm
US offers $10 million reward to track down IS-K leader
State Department also offers money for any information on culprits behind the terrorist attack on Kabul airport, which killed more than 100 people including 13 American soldiers
By AFP
Residents gather next to a damaged minibus after a bomb blast where two people were killed and five wounded in Kabul, on November 17, 2021. (AFP)
November 17, 2021, 4:00 pm
At least two people killed in bus bombing in Shi’ite district of Kabul
Explosion is the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital that have been claimed by the Islamic State
By AFP
Afghan medical staff members (C) stand at the entrance of a hospital as they wait to receive the victims of blasts in Kabul on November 2, 2021, after Afghanistan's capital was hit by two blasts near a military hospital, Taliban officials said, with a witness also reporting gunfire. (AFP)
November 2, 2021, 4:23 pm
At least 19 dead in suicide bomb, shooting attack on Kabul military hospital
50 or more wounded after bomber detonates at entrance to site and armed men open fire; attack not yet claimed by any group
By Emal Haidary
Taliban official Abdul Salam Hanafi, center, and other members of the political delegation from the Afghan Taliban's movement arrive to attend the talks involving Afghan representatives in Moscow, Russia, October 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
October 21, 2021, 2:20 am
At Moscow talks, Taliban vows to work with regional players over IS threats
Russian envoy calls on international governments to abandon their ‘bias’ against new Afghan government and offer aid to country’s citizens
By Marina LAPENKOVA
Afghan men sit in a courtyard inside a Shiite mosque in Kandahar on October 15, 2021, after a suicide bomb attack during Friday prayers (Javed TANVEER / AFP)
October 16, 2021, 4:49 am
Islamic State group claims Afghanistan mosque attack that killed dozens
Jihadists say two suicide bombers carried out separate attacks on different parts of mosque in Kandahar
By AFP
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