Over 300 Nigerian schoolboys who were kidnapped by gunmen rescued

By Reuters,

Security forces rescued nearly 350 Nigerian schoolboys who had been kidnapped and taken into a vast forest, Katsina state Governor said. It was not...

Boko Haram , Chibok , Nigeria

Gunmen storm Kabul University, killing 19, in second deadly attack on students

By CNN,

Gunmen stormed Kabul University, killing students in their classrooms and firing on others as they fled on Monday, in the second attack on an educatio...

Kabul University

Russia offered Taliban fighters cash rewards to kill US, UK troops in Afghanistan

By CNN,

Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed U...

John Ratcliffe , President Donald Trump , Taliban Militants , US intelligence , White House

Militants kill 20 soldiers, 40 civilians in northeast Nigeria attacks

By Reuters,

Islamic militants killed at least 20 soldiers and more than 40 civilians and injured hundreds in twin attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on ...

Boko Haram , Nigeria

Australia rescues ISIS orphans in Syria

By VOA,

Australia has rescued the children and grandchildren of two dead Islamic State fighters from a Syrian refugee camp. The Australian prime minister S...

Australia , ISIS , Khaled Sharrouf , Prime Minister Scott Morrison , Syrian War

Exclusive: Islamic State suspects sent by U.S. from Syria to Iraq

By Reuters,

U.S. forces have quietly sent at least 30 suspected foreign Islamic State fighters captured in Syria last year and in late 2017 to stand trial in Iraq...

Iraq to Syria , Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service , ISIS fighters

At least 17 Niger soldiers killed in ambush: government spokesman

By Reuters,

Gunmen killed at least 17 Nigerien troops in an ambush near the Malian border, where several jihadist groups are active, and another 11 soldiers are m...

AL QAEDA , Islamic state , Nigerien troops , U.S. special forces

Three killed in suspected Islamic State attack on southern Libya: official

By Reuters,

Three people were killed on Thursday in a suspected hit-and-run attack by Islamic State militants on a town in southern Libya, residents and a militar...

Eight soldiers killed in attack on training camp in Libya

By Reuters,

Eight soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack on a training camp belonging to the eastern Libyan armed forces of Khalifa Haftar in the southern ...

libya

Iraq court sentences four to death for joining IS

By Reuters,

An Iraqi court has sentenced four people to death by hanging for belonging to the Islamic State militant group and committing terrorist crimes in Iraq...

Iraq

Bomb explodes in Pakistan market, at least 16 dead

By VOA,

A powerful bomb ripped through a marketplace Friday morning in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 16 people and wounding 30 others. Police off...

pakistan

Prison repairs underway to hold thousands of IS fighters

By VOA,

U.S.-backed forces in Syria holding thousands of Islamic State fighters following the collapse of the terror group's caliphate are starting to get hel...

IS

Prison repairs underway to hold thousands of IS fighters

By VOA,

U.S.-backed forces in Syria holding thousands of Islamic State fighters following the collapse of the terror group's caliphate are starting to get hel...

IS

Battle rages for Libya’s capital, airport bombed

By Reuters,

A warplane attacked Tripoli’s only functioning airport on Monday as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan capital disregarded international appeals...

European union , Fayez al-Serraj , Libyan National Army , Mitiga airport , Muammar Gaddafi , President Emmanuel Macron

Islamic State says it killed 18 soldiers in West Africa

By VOA,

Jihadist group Islamic State said Thursday that it had killed 13 Nigerian soldiers and five troops from a west African anti-militant force in attacks ...

Islamic state

Death toll from attack on Mali herders rises to 157

By Reuters,

The death toll from Saturday’s attack by gunmen on villagers in central Mali has risen to 157, a government spokesman said, confirming it as one of ...

Amadou Kotia , MALI

US official says collapse of IS Caliphate ‘not the end’ of fight

By VOA,

The United States is warning that crushing the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate will not be enough to deal the terror group an enduring defea...

Caliphate , James Jeffrey , President Donald Trump , Syrian Democratic Forces

Militia head refutes his group responsible for Mali massacre

By VOA,

The head of an ethnic Dogon militia blamed for a massacre in central Mali denied Monday that his fighters had been involved in the gruesome attack tha...

MALI

IS in Syria defeated, Caliphate gone, US backed SDF says

By VOA,

U.S.-backed forces raised their flag over the northeastern Syrian town of Baghuz and said the self-declared caliphate of the Islamic State terror grou...

Caliphate , IS , Syria

Airstrikes target last defenders of IS Caliphate

By VOA,

A series of airstrikes late Thursday slammed into two pockets of Islamic State fighters trying to cling to the last scraps of land to be part of the t...

IS Caliphate