Four Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts at one of their positions north of the capital, near a former jihadist bastion, local officials and officers said.

Four policemen dead in back-to-back bomb blasts in Iraq

Pakistani counter-terrorism officers on Saturday killed four terrorists, including two women and a local ISIS commander, in an 'intelligence-based operation' in Punjab province.

4 terrorists killed in encounter in Pakistan

A senior commander of the Islamic State militant group was killed in Afghanistan in a raid, US Forces Afghanistan said on Saturday. Khetab Emir was killed in the raid on January 10 in the eastern area of Nangarhar province, said Lt.

Islamic State commander killed in Afghanistan: US forces

An Islamic State group suicide bomber attacked a centre for Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian city of Raqa on Monday, killing four civilians and an anti-jihadist fighter, a monitor said.

IS suicide bomber kills 5 in Syria's Raqa: Monitor

Senior Republican senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday that President Donald Trump had promised to stay in Syria to finish the job of destroying the Islamic State group -- just days after announcing he would be withdrawing troops immediately.

Trump vows to 'destroy' IS before leaving Syria, says top Republican

Iraq's newly appointed education minister has said she tendered her resignation over online accusations her brother was a member of the jihadist Islamic State group.

New Iraq minister quits over videos linking her brother to IS

The spokesperson for the Islamic State militant group in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region has been killed in an airstrike by the United States forces, the Afghan defense ministry said Thursday.

US drone strike kills Islamic State spokesperson in Afghanistan

India has been the target of terrorist groups for decades. The issue of Maoist and North East extremist groups are local. But bigger threats have emanated from Pakistan-sponsored attacks.

With ISIS threat looming large, we need a policy to fight radicalisation

Kurdish-led forces seized the Islamic State's main hub of Hajin Friday, a milestone in a massive and costly US-backed operation to eradicate the jihadists from eastern Syria.

US-backed forces expel IS from east Syria hub

A Pakistan-born woman has pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic State (ISIS) by participating in a scheme under which she wired over $ 150,000 to individuals and shell entities in Pakistan, China and Turkey that were fronts for the terror group.

US: Pakistan-born woman pleads guilty to providing material support to IS

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a mosque in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province that killed and wounded scores of people, its Amaq news agency reported on Saturday.

Islamic State claims responsibility for blast at Afghanistan mosque

The US State Department today designated Hajji 'Abd al-Nasir as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist(SDGT). The State Department in a statement said the US has imposed sanctions on foreign individuals who have committed or pose a significant risk of committing "acts of terrorism".

US designates Islamic State leader Hajji 'Abd al-Nasir as global terrorist

Iraqi forces have killed 15 Islamic State militants inside a tunnel during a search operation in the northern Sunni-majority Salahuddin province, the military said on Wednesday.

Iraqi military says it killed 15 Islamic State militants in the north

The Islamic State group claimed a suicide attack that killed six people in Kabul on Monday and wounded 20 others, its propaganda agency Amaq said. "A suicide attacker wearing an explosives belt hits a gathering of Shiites near the presidential palace.

IS claims deadly Kabul attack: Propaganda agency

An offensive by US-backed forces against the Islamic State group's last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 jihadists on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

US-backed Syria offensive kills 35 Islamic State fighters

Hundreds of people were taken by Islamic State group fighters from a displacement camp in east Syria during a jihadist counterattack against advancing US-backed forces, a monitor said Saturday.

Hundreds taken by IS from displacement camp in east Syria: Report

Islamic State group has claimed the responsibility of Iran army parade attack which claimed the lives of 29 people on Saturday. Citing a security source, Islamic State's propaganda agency Amaq said: "Islamic State fighters attacked a gathering of Iranian forces in the city of Ahvaz in southern Iran".

Islamic State group claims responsibility for Iran parade attack

IS fighters launched the offensive Sunday against Euphrates Valley villages controlled by government forces and their allies, and have retaken four of them, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

IS kills 45 pro-regime fighters in east Syria assault

The marchers, most dressed in white, made a solemn procession through the city's sunny streets before laying white roses at the scene of the attack by Benjamin Herman, who shot dead two policewomen and a student on Tuesday.

Thousands march for Belgium terror shooting victims

The number of children deprived of schooling is at its highest rate since 2002 -- the year after the US-led ouster of the repressive Taliban regime, which had banned girls from the classroom

Nearly half Afghan children out of school, number rising for first time in years

The attacker identified as Benjamin Herman repeatedly stabbed two policewomen in Liege on Tuesday

IS claims deadly attack on Belgium police

Gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers stormed the heavily fortified headquarters of the Afghan interior ministry, battling security forces for more than two hours in the latest attack on the capital Kabul

Islamic State claims assault on Afghan interior ministry, 1 policeman killed

Meanwhile, the report makes note of the fact that at least two heroin labs belonging to the militants were destroyed in a separate airstrike conducted by the Afghan Air Force

Afghanistan: 11 IS militants killed in US drone strike

The attack was carried out in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province

11 IS militants killed in Afghanistan in US-led drone attack

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