The US struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday as it bombed a member of the ISIS-K in eastern Afghanistan in a retaliatory airstrike after a fatal suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members.

US strikes back at Islamic State after fatal suicide bombing near Kabul airport

The Taliban reportedly raided the shuttered Indian Consulates in Kandahar and Herat two days ago, seizing documents from both missions. The militants allegedly stormed into the Consulate premises and took away parked vehicles, according to reports.

Taliban broke into Indian consulates, took away documents and parked vehicles

The terrorist group Islamic State has claimed that the Taliban in Afghanistan are fake jihadists and that the group is collaborating with the US. IS has mocked the Taliban's success in Afghanistan in its official weekly publication Al-Naba, alleging that the country was simply handed over to the Islamist rival by the withdrawal of American soldiers.

Taliban takeover of Afghanistan a 'US-backed conspiracy': Islamic State

India's envoy to the United Nations, T S Tirumurti, on Friday called on the Taliban to engage in "negotiations in good faith", "eschew the path of violence" and "severe ties with Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations" at the United Nations Security Council meeting on Afghanistan.

Taliban needs to eschew the path of violence, cut ties with terror groups: India

A recent report by the United Nations Security Council claims that the leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan are trying to make fresh recruitment.

Islamic state unit recruiting taliban fighters, claims UNSC report

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday met Iraq Foreign Minister Dr Fuad Hussein at State Department. The meet took place ahead of discussions on the role of the US military in Iraq.

Blinken meets Iraq foreign minister in Washington

Thousands of people took to the streets of Burkina Faso on Saturday, demanding a stronger response to rising jihadist bloodshed after a massacre last month killed more than 130 people.

Thousands in Burkina Faso protest rising bloodshed

US secretary of state Antony Blinken said that he hoped the US strikes on Iran-backed militants will "be heard and deter future action" while urging countries including allies to bring back citizens arrested overseas for joining the Islamic State group.

Blinken asserts US strikes 'will be heard and deter future action'

A group of fighters from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to rivals the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) weeks after the former group's leader died, according to a video.

Boko Haram fighters pledge allegiance to Islamic State in video, worrying observers

The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a compound housing workers from the HALO Trust de-mining group, after the Britain-based charity contradicted a government report and said the Taliban weren't to blame.

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on mine-clearing workers in Afghanistan: Monitoring group

Abubakar Shekau, the head of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, had killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audiotape. According to recordings received by news agencies from Boko Haram on Sunday, the group's leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in a confrontation against rival jihadist fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), two weeks after reports emerged that he had died.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself, says Islamic State West African Province

The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack that took place in Libya on Sunday and killed two security officers. In a statement issued by IS' arm, Amaq, the group claimed it targeted a checkpoint of the "militia of the tyrant Haftar" through a suicide bomber.

Libya: Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly car bomb attack

One person was killed and some others injured when unknown gunmen abducted about 150 children of an Islamic school in Nigeria's Niger state. The Salihu Tanko Islamic School is located at Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of the north-central Nigerian state of Niger.

150 children kidnapped after Islamic school ambushed by armed bandits in Nigeria

When Belgium said in March that it would repatriate some women who had joined the Islamic State group, along with their children, Jessie Van Eetvelde welcomed the decision with relief — even though she knows it will likely mean time in prison.

Europe’s dilemma: Take in Islamic State families, or leave them in Syria?

Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously injured as he tried to kill himself to avoid getting caught, said AP quoting two intelligence sources.

Nigerian Boko Haram leader seriously wounded in clash with Islamic State: Report

Gathering in the courtyard of al-Masfi mosque, worshippers in Mosul held Eid prayers in the city's oldest mosque for the first time since it was heavily damaged during the war against Islamic State that ended in 2017.

First Eid prayer held in Mosul's oldest mosque as a call for its reconstruction

Parliament speaker and former President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has been injured in a terrorist attack near his residence. According to reports, Islamic state has taken responsibility for the attack.

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed injured in terrorist attack

A day after Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Male, the hospital where he is admitted said he remains "critical".

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed critical, say doctors after bomb attack

Dragging a screaming lraqi actress wrapped in a fake suicide belt, television presenter Reslan Haddad, himself dressed up in a military uniform, pretends to just have rescued the blindfolded Nessma from a staged violent Islamic State attack on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Islamic State TV prank triggers controversy in Iraq

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Sunday handed over 34 orphaned children, whose parents were suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group, to a Russian delegation to be repatriated.

Russia repatriates 34 orphans of IS families from Syria

Two demonstrators and a policeman were killed Tuesday in violent clashes between Islamists and police in Pakistan, hours after authorities arrested the head of an Islamist party in the eastern city of Lahore, a senior official and local media reported.

3 killed in Pakistan in clashes between police, Islamists

A US couple has been charged with support for a terror group after trying to board a Yemen-bound ship to join the ISIS militant group. The newlywed husband and wife -- James Bradley, 20, and Arwa Muthana, 29, who expressed interest in fighting for the Islamic State group, were arrested at a port near New York City, prosecutors said.

US couple arrested while trying to join Islamic State in Yemen

Guests say it was an auspicious event when Muhammad Lukman married his wife in August on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. On the day of Palm Sunday, the newlyweds strapped themselves with pressure cooker nail bombs and detonated them while driving into the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in the provincial capital of Makassar.

How suicide bombing families are giving Indonesia nightmares

Islamic State said on Monday its fighters had carried out an attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma, where dozens were killed, thousands displaced and some remain missing.

Islamic State claims deadly attack on northern Mozambique town

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