Islamic State group jihadists emerged from tunnels to surrender to US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a Kurdish spokesman said, a day after their “caliphate” was declared defeated.
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Detained jihadists are ticking bomb, Syria Kurds warn
Syria’s Kurds warned Sunday that despite the demise of the Islamic State’s “caliphate”, the thousands of foreign jihadists they hold are a time-bomb the world urgently needs to defuse.
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Burkina Faso forces kill nearly 30 ‘terrorists’ in operation
Burkina Faso’s armed forces killed around 30 suspected militants last week in an land and air operation against jihadist groups operating in the east of the country, the military said on Sunday. Burkina Faso, part of a joint French-led military campaign against jihadists in the Sahel, is on the frontline of the Islamist militant insurgency […]
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France hails progress in fight against jihadists in Sahel
The fight against jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region is “achieving results”, France’s prime minister said in Mali on Saturday, two days after French forces killed a top extremist leader. “The anti-terrorist struggle in the Sahel requires determination, endurance and humility. We are faced with a hard fight,” Edouard Philippe told reporters. The prime minister arrived […]
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Take back jihadists, Trump tells Europe
European nations must take back hundreds of Islamic State group fighters captured in Syria, President Donald Trump said late Saturday, after a delay in announcing what he said would be the end of the “caliphate.” Trump shocked allies in December by declaring the pullout of roughly 2,000 US troops who had been assisting local forces […]
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Tunisia convicts dozens of jihadists over teen beheading
A Tunisian court has convicted dozens of jihadists over the 2015 murder of a teenage shepherd, but the vast majority remain on the run, a prosecution spokesman said Wednesday.
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15 suspected jihadists killed in joint French
Some 15 suspected jihadists have been killed near the Niger-Mali border by a joint franco-nigerien task force, the French military high command said. “On the night of December 27 (…) an air raid mounted by fighters and Tiger attack helicopters struck” jihadists gathered near Tongo Tongo, in southwestern Niger, the high command said in a […]
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War on jihadists won’t end unless West tackles root causes – experts
Western powers fighting Islamist groups around the globe are condemned to a never-ending battle if they only tackle the symptoms and not the underlying causes of jihadist insurgency, experts say.
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No part of Sokoto under occupation by Jihadists, armed group – Police
The Sokoto State Police Command has denied media reports that parts of Tangaza local government area of the state was under occupation of Jihadists or any armed militia group. Reacting to the reports, yesterday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, told newsmen that neither Tangaza nor any part of the state was under […]
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