Kurdish forces arrested dozens in an operation launched to apprehend suspected family members of Islamic State militant in a camp in northeast Syria. Al-Hol is the largest such settlement controlled by Kurdish authorities, who warn it is emerging as an extremist powder keg following dozens of murders in the camp since the start of the year.

Kurdish forces arrest dozens in security sweep against IS families

In Nigeria, 15 soldiers and 4, Militia fighters have been killed in an attack on a Nigerian military convoy by the Islamic state-aligned Jihadist. A military officer has informed that 13 government fighters, including 10 troops were also wounded in this ambush.

Nigerian military convoy attacked by the Islamic state-aligned Jihadist

The United States on Wednesday blacklisted two Islamist extremist organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique over their connections with the Islamic State.

US blacklists two groups in Congo and Mozambique over connections with ISIS

Pope Francis thanked the people of Iraq on Wednesday for allowing him to make his historic trip to the country, saying the country's people have a right to live in peace and condemned weapons manufacturers and traffickers for selling arms to "terrorists".

Pope Francis thanks Iraqis for visit, saying they have right to live in peace

Pope Francis, on Sunday, will meet Iraqi Christian who suffered under the Islamic State (IS) group. He will lead a prayer "for the victims of the war" in Mosul. Pope Francis is on a historic tour to Iraq.

Pope to meet Iraqi Christians in former Islamic State strongholds 

Pope Francis on Sunday prayed for 'victims of war' in Iraqi city of Mosul, a former stronghold of Islamic State (IS) group that swept across Iraq and Syria to form a so-called 'Caliphate' in recent years.

Pope Francis prays for 'victims of war' in Mosul, a former Islamic State stronghold in Iraq

Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday for his riskiest foreign trip since becoming the head of the Catholic Church, having said that he felt duty-bound to make the visit because the country had suffered so much for so long.

Pope Francis arrives in Baghdad on historic visit to Iraq

Pope Francis is set to embark on a historic trip to Iraq, the first-ever papal visit to the country. Basra's Archbishop Habib al-Naufaly stressed the symbolic importance of the pope's March 5-8 visit as Iraq is still recovering from the war against the Islamic State that destroyed scores of Christian heritage sites.

Iraq prepares for the Pope's visit amid scars of war

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the February 3 killing of four soldiers in a rugged region of central Tunisia. According to a report by the SITE Intelligence Group, the soldiers were killed in three blasts ignited by its fighters near Mount Mghila and a "spy" was beheaded separately by IS.

IS claims killing of four Tunisia soldiers, beheading

Germany has charged five Tajik men with membership of an Islamic State terror cell that recruited members and planned attacks on German soil, prosecutors said on Monday.

Germany charges five Tajiks over membership in IS cell

Charged with breaking hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes on trial on Wednesday. She has slammed the case as a violation of free speech.

French far-right leader Le Pen on trial for breaking hate speech laws

At least 14 killings, including three beheadings, have rocked a northeast Syria camp holding families linked to the Islamic State group since early January, a Kurdish official said Monday.

Fourteen killed this year in Syria camp holding IS fighters' relatives

Islamic State group jihadists killed 19 Syrian regime personnel and allied militia fighters in the central province of Hama on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

IS attack kills 19 in central Syria

The Islamic State(IS) group claimed responsibility for the double suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Thursday that killed at least 32 people and wounded more than hundred.

Islamic State claims responsibility for Baghdad twin bombings

Afghan authorities said Tuesday they had foiled a plan by the jihadist Islamic State group to assassinate the top US envoy in Kabul, as a wave of targeted killings continues to rock the country.

Afghan forces foil IS plan to assassinate top US envoy

Islamic State group fighters killed at least seven regime loyalists in eastern Syria on Saturday. The attack came as the militia fighters were sweeping the town of Al-Shola for jihadist remnants.

IS attack kills seven regime loyalists in eastern Syria

Members of the Shi'ite Hazara minority in Pakistan who have blockaded a highway in Quetta with the bodies of slain coal miners said on Tuesday they will not withdraw until Prime Minister Imran Khan meets them and the killers are brought to justice.

Pakistan's Hazara say no end to Quetta sit-in without justice for slain miners

Pakistani Hazara families of the victims, who were killed by unidentified men at the Mach coalfield, refused to bury their loved ones and continued their sit-in on the western bypass of Balochistan with the victims` bodies demanding the Balochistan government to either arrest the killers or resign.

Pakistani Hazara families refuse to bury Mach massacre victims

Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on Sunday that killed 11 miners from Pakistan’s minority Shi’ite Hazaras in Baluchistan province. The attack took place early on Sunday morning in the Mach area of Bolan district around 100 kms southeast of Baluchistan's capital Quetta, killing the miners who were in a shared residential room near the coal mine where they worked, officials said.

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Pakistan's Shi'ite Hazara minority that killed 11

The notorious Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the knife attack that took place in Russia's southern Chechnya region in which one policeman was killed, a local newspaper reported on Friday morning.

Islamic State claims responsibility for Russia's knife attack

Islamic State group jihadists killed 37 soldiers when they ambushed a bus Wednesday in one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of their "caliphate" last year, a monitor said.

IS bus ambush kills 37 soldiers in Syria

Iraq's largest Christmas tree has gone up in the capital's Al-Zaura theme park to celebrate Christmas and the three-year anniversary of the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Christmas tree in Baghdad to celebrate diversity

Germany and Finland have repatriated 23 of their nationals mostly women and children from Syria some of them under criminal investigation allegdly belonging to the islamic state terror group.

Germany, Finland repatriate citizens from Syria terrorist camps

A successful peace process with the Taliban will allow the government to focus its resources on countering the Islamic State group and its attacks on soft targets, Afghanistan's national security adviser said Saturday.

Peace deal with Taliban will help in fighting IS: Afghan official

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