Daesh

Kabul mosque attack: A day after blast Taliban claims to destroying Islamic State cell in city

The operation took place within hours of the deadly attack at the Eid Gah mosque

'Not an enemy anymore': Russia's outreach to Taliban full of opportunities and risks

The vacuum created by the American withdrawal gives Russia a chance to reassert itself in the region

Javad Zarif says Iran interested in diplomacy but not in negotiating with US, claims India can play a role in de-escalating tensions in Gulf

India can play a role in de-escalating tensions in the Gulf region as New Delhi is an important player, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Wednesday

Yazidi women rescued from Islamic State captors face dilemma of leaving ‘Daesh’ children or being shunned by community in Iraq's Sinjar

Freed after years in jihadist captivity, Jihan, a woman from the Yazidi community in Iraq faced an agonising ultimatum: abandon her three small children fathered by an Islamic State fighter or risk being shunned by her community.

155 Islamic State members, sympathisers arrested across the country so far, home ministry tells Lok Sabha

A total of 155 members and sympathisers of the Islamic State have been arrested in the country, so far, the Home Ministry told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

Over a year after Islamic State’s defeat in Iraq, militants return to strongholds of former ‘caliphate’ for revenge

A year and a half after the Islamic State group was declared defeated in Iraq, the militants still evoke fear in the lands of their former so-called caliphate across northern Iraq

Islamic State planning 'new strategy' to target smaller countries, claims Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena

Maithripala Sirisena said the analysis of the explosives and devices taken into custody suggested that the bombs used in the coordinated terror attacks on 21 April, which rattled several churches and high-end hotels across the country, were made locally

US-backed forces declare victory over Islamic State in Syria after freeing last pocket held by militants

US-backed forces declared military victory over the Islamic State group in Syria on Saturday after liberating the last pocket of territory held by the militants, marking the end of a brutal self-styled caliphate the group carved out in large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Largest Islamic State mass grave with 3,500 bodies found outside Syria's Raqqa; HRW says work against group 'not over'

The belated discovery of the mass graves near Syria's Raqqa is the biggest example yet of how the violence IS sowed during the reign of its "caliphate" will be harvested for years to come, diggers and activists said.

Emmanuel Macron clarifies Syria comments, says US and France united in 'war against Islamic State'

French President Emmanuel Macron said he had not meant to signal a change in the US position on Syria, after the White House rebuffed his suggestion he had dissuaded President Donald Trump from rapidly withdrawing US troops