Jihadi

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has fled Mosul, says Britain

The top boss of the Islamic State — who on Thursday denied the terror group was on the brink of losing control in the besieged northern Iraqi city of Mosul — has himself fled, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson said on Friday.

West Bengal court sends suspected Islamic State operative to 14-day police custody

A West Bengal court on Wednesday remanded Mohammad Masiuddin, arrested on suspicion of having links with the Islamic State (IS), in 14-day police custody.

Dhaka terror strike: Home ministry sounds high alert in border areas

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh got a briefing on the situation in Bangladesh from senior officials in the ministry and security agencies.

Syria troops press advance after blow to Islamic State in Palmyra

Syrian forces strengthened their hold on Palmyra on Monday and pushed forward against the Islamic State jihadist group after dealing it a major blow by retaking the ancient city.

Japanese national who aspired to join Islamic State detained in Turkey, says official

A Turkish interior ministry official says police have detained a Japanese national as he tried to go to Syria with the intention of joining Islamic State extremists

Former member leaks names of 22,000 Islamic State jihadis; documents yet to be verified

Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of jihadis who joined the Islamic State group have been given to the UK's Sky News, the broadcaster said Wednesday.

Do not fall for the verbal trick when commentators seek to be fashionably 'anti-national'

These commentators have effectively used a verbal trick to paint themselves as anti-national in the best sense of the term. This is the trick: use positive virtues to define the term “anti-national” and then accuse the “others” as being narrow-minded and bigoted for calling this anti-national

ISIS opens help desk for militants to evade electronic surveillance

ISIS has reportedly opened a new technical "help desk" that instructs terrorists on how to evade electronic surveillance and prevent them from committing security mistakes that could endanger their lives.

Two suspected jihadi operatives planning attacks during Christmas and New Year arrested in Delhi

Two suspected operatives of a jihadi organisation, who were allegedly planning to carry out attacks in the national capital were detained.

Jihadist veterans pose generational threat even if Islamic State defeated, say experts

Even if the Islamic State group is one day defeated on its territory, the world could face an even greater threat from tens of thousands of battle-hardened jihadist veterans.