ISIL/ISIS

Blinken to visit Saudi Arabia to discuss ‘strategic cooperation’
The trip next week will be the top US diplomat’s first to the kingdom since the Iranian-Saudi normalisation deal.
Published On 2 Jun 2023
Libya court sentences 23 to death for ISIL campaign
Appeals court sentences 14 others to life in prison for campaign including the beheading of Egyptian Christians in 2015.
Published On 29 May 2023
Man who killed eight in New York bike path attack sentenced
Sayfullo Saipov was given eight consecutive life sentences in the US as part of his punishment for a deadly 2017 attack.
Published On 17 May 2023
Sahel ‘at a crossroads’ as armed groups gain sway in Africa: UN
International community criticised after joint force battling armed groups left without sufficient funding and support.
Published On 17 May 2023

Hundreds were taken from a prison and executed by the armed group, according to the Iraqi government.

Ibrahim Traore speaks about conflict in Sahel, denies Russian mercenaries are helping his government fight rebels.

Rewards offered for proof of film’s claim that thousands of Hindu women forcibly converted and made to work for ISIL.

Questions are raised at a UN human rights meeting about the role of the Russian private military contractor

Turkish president discloses intelligence operation took place in Jinderes in northwestern Syria on Saturday.

The project, in which TotalEnergies owns an operating stake of 26.5%, was halted in 2021 due to mounting insecurity.

The leader has yet to be identified but may have been killed early in April amid Taliban operations against ISIL (ISIS).

Latest violence comes as country’s military leaders step up efforts to put down an uprising that has killed thousands.

Rebels linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL have been active in parts of Mali and the Sahel for more than a decade now.

US Central Command says Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali was a planner of ‘terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe’.

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