India remained largely secure in 2018, but security being work in progress, always needs a pragmatic relook and year-end is a good time to take stock. Its major strategic security concerns revolved around its relations with China, US, Russia and Pakistan with doses of attention towards the Indo-Pacific and the nations there.

Secure through 2018, India has work cut out for New Year

Two men were killed and at least 32 others wounded Monday after a bomb went off outside a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato, police said.

Video: 2 killed, 32 injured in bombing in troubled south Philippines

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

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested 10 suspected members of a newly set up ISIS-inspired terror outfit in New Delhi that was allegedly planning to carry out series of suicide attacks in Delhi and north India targeting important political personalities, vital installations and crowded places.

From engineering student to welders: Those behind ISIS-inspired group busted by NIA

The National Investigation Agency is conducting searches across New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with what it says is an Islamic State cell. The NIA said the searches are being conducted across 16 locations in Delhi and UP.

NIA conducts searches across Delhi & UP for Islamic State cell, 5 arrested

Second migrant child dies in US custody this month An eight-year-old migrant from Guatemala died in government custody on Tuesday, US Customs and Border Protection said, the second child fatality in US detention this month.

News brief: Big stories of the day

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Libya's Foreign Ministry

Suicide attackers stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, killing at least three people including a senior civil servant in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

Islamic State claims attack on Libya foreign ministry that killed three

Turkey vowed on Monday that the fight against Islamic State would not be slowed by the US withdrawal from Syria, where Ankara-backed rebels reinforced their positions around the potential flashpoint town of Manbij.

Turkey vows no slowdown in fight against IS after US pullout from Syria

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

The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that rocked the former jihadist stronghold of Tal Afar in northern Iraq and killed two people.

Islamic State claims responsibility for Iraq car bomb attack

A US military delegation will visit Turkey this week to discuss the withdrawal of American ground forces from Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Monday.

US team coming to discuss Syria troops withdrawal: Turkey

Strasbourg Christmas market attacker pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a video, news agency AFP reported citing judicial source. The video was found in a USB key belonging to Cherif Chekatt, 29, who was shot and killed by police after a two-day manhunt in the city following the December 11 attack.

Strasbourg Christmas market attacker pledges allegiance to Islamic state in video: Judicial source

Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria may not be able to continue hold Islamic State prisoners if the situation in the region gets out of control, top Syrian Kurdish official Ilham Ahmed said on Friday.

Kurdish-led forces in Syria may not be able to contain IS prisoners: Official

France will keep troops in northern Syria for now because Islamic State militants have not been wiped out, contrary to the US view, and has started talks with the United States on the conditions and calendar of its withdrawal, officials said.

France says Islamic State not defeated, troops to remain in Syria

The United States will withdraw its troops from Syria, a US official told AFP on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump said America has "defeated ISIS" in the war-ravaged country.

Trump says Islamic State defeated, US will pull all forces out of Syria

The United States has defeated the Islamic State in Syria, US President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday, adding that it was the only reason he had kept troops in the country.

Trump says the US has defeated Islamic State in Syria

US authorities on Monday charged an Ohio man with providing material support to the Islamic State for an alleged plan to carry out a mass shooting attack at a synagogue.

US man allegedly planned IS-inspired attack Ohio synagogue

An anti-terrorism special tribunal in Bangladesh has recorded the statement of the first witness in the 2016 terror attack case, three years after the country's deadliest attack killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, including an Indian national.

Bangladesh court records testimony of first witness in 2016 cafe attack trial

Eight alleged Islamist extremists went on trial in Bangladesh on Monday over a savage 2016 attack claimed by Islamic State that killed 22 people including 18 foreigners at a Dhaka cafe popular with Westerners.

Bangladesh tries eight Islamist extremists over 2016 cafe attack

Amidst peace overtures from Islamabad, Army chief General Bipin Rawat said Friday Pakistan cannot stay together with India as long as it is an Islamic state and if they are willing to become secular, then there is an opportunity.

If Pakistan has to stay together with India, they have to develop as secular state: Army chief

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

The trial of eight militants who perpetrated Bangladesh's worst terror attack on a popular cafe here in 2016 that killed 22 people, including a 19-year-old Indian girl, began in a court on Monday.

Bangladesh court begins trial of militants over 2016 Dhaka cafe attack 

Counter-attacks by the Islamic State group have killed at least 47 US-backed fighters over two days as the jihadists struck from their embattled holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday.

IS counter-attacks kill 47 US-backed fighters in east Syria: Monitor

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