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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

Islamic State

Emergency personnel transport the injured following a shooting attack at Iran's Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the Fars province capital Shiraz, on August 13, 2023. (MOHAMMADREZA DEHDARI / ISNA / AFP)
May 18, 2025, 12:29 pm
Iran sentences three to death over deadly attacks on Shiite shrine
Verdicts address two ISIS-linked shootings in 2022 and 2023 that killed 15 at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz
By AFP
This frame grab from video posted online January 18, 2019, by supporters of the Islamic State group, purports to show a gun-mounted Islamic State group vehicle firing at members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour, Syria. (Militant Photo via AP)
May 12, 2025, 12:50 pm
Qatar and FBI find remains of 30 people believed killed by Islamic State in Syria
Bodies uncovered near Dabiq on Turkish border, DNA tests underway in effort to identify them; Qatari internal security forces declines to say who the search team was looking for
By AP and ToI Staff
US soldiers patrol in Syria's northeastern city Qamishli, in the Hasakeh province, mostly controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on January 9, 2025. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
April 18, 2025, 5:01 am
US to further reduce troop presence in Syria following post-Oct. 7 increase
600 American soldiers to leave country, bringing force level to under 1,000 after it surged to over 2,000 in response to attacks on US troops and targets by Iran-backed groups
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Left to right: Illustrative: A handcuffed man in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi /FLASH90); Demonstrators wave the Islamic State terror group's flags in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File)
March 30, 2025, 4:42 pm
Teen arrested on suspicion of planning terror attack after swearing loyalty to ISIS
Police say 17-year-old Arab-Israeli had documents detailing explosives production in his possession at the time of his arrest
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
FILE - Islamic State militants pass a checkpoint bearing the group's trademark black flag in the village of Maryam Begg in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
March 15, 2025, 7:57 am
Head of ISIS in Iraq and Syria killed in airstrike during US-Iraqi joint operation
Iraqi PM says Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai was Islamic State’s deputy caliph, ‘one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world’; announcement comes as Syrian FM visits Baghdad
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Islamic State memorabilia among other items found at the Taybeh home of an Arab Israeli accused of planning attacks inspired by the terror group, in a screenshot from video published on March 13, 2025. (Israel Police)
March 13, 2025, 12:34 pm
Arab Israeli man accused of joining Islamic State, spying on troops, plotting attacks
Kamel Nashef, 21, from Taybeh arrested, set to be indicted for contacting and swearing allegiance to ISIS, tipping off West Bank terror operatives to IDF movements
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Russian riot police officers secure an area in Moscow on February 16, 2025. (TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP)
March 3, 2025, 2:56 pm
Russia says it foiled terror plot targeting Jewish institution, metro
Suspect, member of unspecified terror group, purchased materials to create IEDs and scouted out targets before being shot and killed during nighttime raid, police say
By Zev Stub
Members of a special police unit escort a man suspected to be responsible for the Solingen knife attack from a helicopter to the office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, on August 25, 2024. (Thomas Kienzle / AFP)
February 28, 2025, 1:54 pm
Man charged over deadly 2024 knife attack in Germany that sought to ‘avenge Palestine’
Syrian asylum seeker slated for deportation swore allegiance to ISIS minutes before traveling to Solingen festival to target revelers, whom he saw as infidels, prosecutors say
By AP
Ishaq Nissan, a Syriac Orthodox Christian, rings the church bell in the northeastern Syrian village of Tel Tal, currently controlled by the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, January 27, 2025. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
February 21, 2025, 8:30 am
Syria’s Christians mark 10 years since deadly ISIS attack amid worry for their future
More than 200 Christians were taken hostage during Feb. 2015 assault, leading to mass exodus; those who stayed behind now watch warily as former Islamist rebel leader takes charge
By BASSEM MROUE
People look into a cordoned-off area where a man stabbed several people in the southern Austria city of Villach, February 15, 2025. (Wiesflecker/Kleine Zeitung via AP)
February 16, 2025, 2:18 pm
Austrian authorities say Villach stabber was Islamist, pledged allegiance to ISIS
Austrian minister says 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was radicalized online before killing 14-year-old boy, wounding five others
By Agencies
Wasim a-Sayed, an ISIS-affiliated terrorist from Hebron who murdered three people in Jerusalem, is sentenced to three life sentences and another 40-year prison sentence, and is seen on a screen at the District Court in Jerusalem, February 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 3, 2025, 2:35 pm
ISIS-linked terrorist gets 3 life sentences plus 40 years for killing 3 in Jerusalem
Wasim a-Sayed was convicted of 2019 murder of Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri, 2022 murder of Ivan Tarnovski; court rules he will never be eligible for release, even in diplomatic deal
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a human rights-themed event hosted by his Islamist AKP political party in the Turkish capital of Ankara, August 5, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Türkiye Canlı, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 15, 2025, 4:08 pm
Israel rebuffs ‘imperialist’ Turkey after Erdogan says it must withdraw from Syria
Turkish leader warns of an ‘unfavorable outcome for everyone’ if IDF troops don’t leave buffer area they entered after fall of Assad regime
By Amy Spiro, ToI Staff and Reuters
An aerial view shows the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, locally believed to hold the grave of Zeinab bint Ali, the daughter of Imam Ali and Fatima, and granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, on December 11, 2024. (Dylan COLLINS / AFP)
January 11, 2025, 3:10 pm
Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted Islamic State bomb attack on Shiite shrine
Site has been previously targeted by the terror group; announcement of foiled plot appears to be latest attempt by country’s new leaders to reassure religious minorities
By Agencies
Courtney Polk, cousin of Tasha Polk, who was killed in the New Year's Day attack, reacts at a memorial on Bourbon Street and Canal Street in New Orleans, January 4, 2025, (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
January 5, 2025, 6:34 pm
Report: New Orleans rammer apparently radicalized in past year, unbeknown to family
Shamsud Din-Jabbar’s relatives say US Army veteran had grown noticeably more conservative, but not violent; they attributed erratic behavior to divorces, financial stress
By ToI Staff
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
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