Russian investigators said Friday that a New Year’s Eve blast that killed 39 people was likely the result of a gas explosion, dismissing reports that the Islamic State group was behind it.
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IS frees six Syria Druze women, children after three-month ordeal
The Islamic State group has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria. State television broadcast footage of the six arriving in the city of Sweida on Saturday, joyful at being reunited with their families but haggard […] …
ISIS finance chief killed in joint coalition raid
Islamic State (ISIS) finance and logistics chief Abu Obaida was killed in a joint Peshmerga and US-led coalition raid on Saturday, according to the head of Peshmerga forces in Makhmour, Sirwan Barzani. Barzani told Rudaw the coalition forces killed two more ISIS members around Mount Qarachogh on Sunday. Peshmerga forces carried out the raids in […] …
ISIS sneaking jihadists into Nigeria from Syria –Report
Adelani Adepegba, Leye Aluko with agency report Leaders of terrorist group, Islamic State, are sneaking battle-hardened jihadis from Syria into Nigeria to train terrorists for possible attacks in Britain. Fanatics, including Boko Haram insurgents, were also being sent to the Middle East for training in a chilling “exchange programme,” The UK SUN reported on Monday. […] …
Iraq court sentences French woman to life for IS membership
Morocco tackling jihadist returnees
Morocco is working hard to detain and place on trial citizens who have returned home after fighting for the Islamic State group, the country’s anti-terror chief has told AFP. “We have arrested and brought to justice more than 200 returnees,” Abdelhak Khiam, director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), said in an interview. […] …
