New Zealand will withdraw its troops from Iraq by June next year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, ending a mission that helped train Iraqi defence forces to fight Islamic State militants.

New Zealand to withdraw troops from Iraq next year, trim Afghanistan contingent

A three-member committee appointed to probe the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians, Monday submitted its final report to President Maithripala Sirisena.

Committee probing Easter attacks submits its final report to Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena

At least eighteen terrorists were killed and four others sustained injuries in an anti-terrorism operation carried out by the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) in the eastern province of Logar on Friday morning.

Afghanistan: 18 terrorists killed by government forces in Logar province

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced three activists of the Masood Azhar-led Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) for five years each in jail for arranging funds for the proscribed terror outfit amid pressure from the global community to rein in militant groups.

Pakistan court sentences three Jaish-e-Mohammed activists for terror funding

A car bomb targeting a US convoy exploded in the Afghan capital on Friday, wounding four US service members and causing a number of other casualties, officials said, in the second attack in the city in two days.

Afghanistan: At least nine killed, six injured as blast hits Kabul, says security official

The US-led coalition said Friday it had unintentionally killed more than 1,300 civilians in air strikes during its fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria since 2014.

We unintentionally killed 1,300 civilians in air strikes on Islamic State: US-led coalition

Rajnath Singh was on Friday appointed as Minister of Defence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s second Cabinet. The BJP heavyweight headed the Ministry of Home Affairs in Modi`s first tenure.

Rajnath Singh moves to South Block, gets Defence Ministry

The first Kashmiri man to have joined terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has surrendered and is in the custody of US forces in Syria, according to his Srinagar-based family.

Kashmir man who joined ISIS surrenders, claims family; hopeful of return

A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reached Colombo in connection with two ISIS related cases being investigated by the agency. The two-member team is in the Sri-Lankan capital to find out any possible links between the terrorist modules and the terrorists involved in the deadly Easter Sunday bombings in Sri-Lanka.

NIA team in Colombo to probe Islamic State related cases

France must stop the "inhumane treatment" of children of jihadists stranded in Syria who are not being allowed to come to the country, its rights ombudsman said Wednesday, warning that Paris was flouting its UN obligations.

Rights body slams France's 'inhumane treatment' of jihadists' children

Attacks on schools in Afghanistan increased almost threefold last year, making it increasingly difficult to ensure an education for children in many parts of the country, the United Nations children`s fund UNICEF said on Tuesday.

Education under fire' as attacks on Afghan schools jump: UNICEF

The Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday said coastal guard vessels and personnel have been alerted following reports of boats allegedly carrying 15 local Islamic State (IS) members had set off for India's Lakshadweep islands.

Sri Lanka Navy puts its vessels on alert after reports of Islamic State terrorists setting off to India

The Kerala coast has been put on high alert following intelligence reports that boats allegedly carrying 15 Islamic State Terrorists had set off from Sri Lanka to the Lakshadweep islands, police said Saturday.

Kerala coast on high alert after IS boat reportedly sets off from Sri Lanka

At least four militants, including a local Islamic State (IS) commander, were killed in an operation carried out by Afghan Special Forces in Nangarhar province, local media reported on Saturday.

Local Islamic State commander among 4 killed by Afghan forces

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has vowed to take security measures to prevent Islamic State (IS) terrorism raising its head again in the country as he appealed people not to support extremism or religious fanaticism.

PM Ranil Wickremesinghe vows to stop Islamic State terrorism raising its head again in Lanka

Bank accounts of 41 terror suspects in Sri Lanka having links with the outlawed Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) that was behind the Easter Sunday bombings in the country have been frozen, according to a media report.

Sri Lanka freezes bank accounts of 41 terror suspects

In central Kabul last month, two men stabbed a teenager and left him for dead before escaping on a motorcycle -- a brazen attack amid a rising tide of killings and kidnappings as war-scarred residents complain of increasing lawlessness.

Never mind the war: Kabul residents in Afghanistan fear surge in violent crime

Sri Lanka's president marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a protracted war with Tamil rebels Sunday by vowing to crush terrorist responsible for Easter bombings that killed 258 people.

Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena vows to eliminate terrorism threat

The Indian subcontinent is obviously high on the Islamic State (IS) agenda. Ever since the Sri Lanka suicide bombings, IS statements, some genuine and others probably false, are focusing much on the subcontinent and India in particular.

Islamic State is focusing on subcontinent and India in particular

Two guards loyal to Khalifa Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army were killed in an attack Saturday claimed by the Islamic State group, an LNA source said. Four guards were also kidnapped in the attack on a checkpoint in the central region of Zella, the same source said.

Two dead in Libya attack claimed by Islamic State: Report

The wife of a Sri Lankan suicide bomber, who blew himself up at the St Anthony's Church, delivered their first baby two weeks after the deadly Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 250 people including the attackers, the Colombo magistrate's court has been told.

Wife of Sri Lanka church bomber delivers their first baby post Easter attacks

Malaysia has detained three men on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State militant group and planning attacks in Indonesia and Malaysia, police said on Thursday.

Malaysia detains three accused of planning attacks, links to IS

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has ordered the police to charge perpetrators of communal violence in the country on May 12 and 13 under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act.

Perpetrators of communal violence to be charged under ICCPR: Sri Lankan Prime Minister

The UN has sanctioned ISIS' South Asia Branch, a terrorist group formed in 2015 by a Pakistani national and a former commander of the TTP, for its links with al-Qaeda and involvement in several deadly attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan that killed over 150 people.

UNSC sanctions terror group ISIS' South Asia Branch

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