BAGHDAD: Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in an IS propaganda video released on Monday, is the world’s most wanted man who has so far eluded capture. After declaring himself caliph in 2014, Baghdadi held sway over seven ...

The United Nations said at least 45 children were among the more than 320 people killed in the Suicide Bomb attacks in Sri Lanka. UNICEF Spokesman Christophe Boulierac told Media in Geneva, that 45 children killed in the attacks, stressing that others "are wounded and are now fighting for their ...

President Donald Trump has said the United States expects that Islamic State group will lose all remaining territory in Syria in a week. Addressing to an international conference in Washington, he said the United States military, coalition partners and the Syrian Democratic Forces have liberated ...

The US-led military campaign to oust the Islamic State group from the Syrian city of Raqa in 2017 killed hundreds of civilians in indiscriminate bombing, committing possible war crimes. Amnesty International said that the military operation failed to take "adequate account" of civilians and the ...

Kabul: A suicide bomber blew himself up in an area of Kabul on Friday, killing at least nine people, officials said, as militants dial up pressure on the war-weary Afghan capital. The Islamic State group’s local franchise claimed responsibility for the blast, the SITE Intelligence Group said, ...

In Egypt, ten militants have been killed in a military operation against the Islamic State group in Sinai region. Egypt's army said on Sunday that four soldiers were also killed in the operation. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has given the army a three months deadline to crush the Islamic State ...

ISTANBUL: Turkey suffered heavy losses on Thursday during its offensive against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, with the military announcing that eight soldiers were killed and 13 more wounded. The death toll, released by the Turkish military staff in two separate statements, makes Thursday ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called for unity among Arab countries in the Gulf for the sake of regional stability and to root out the Islamic State group. Addressing a donor conference in Kuwait to support reconstruction efforts in Iraq, he said the rift between Qatar and its neighbours ...

KABUL: An Afghan official says a Chinese and three Uzbek militants have been killed in an air raid against the Islamic State group in northern Jowzjan province earlier this week. The airstrikes were part of a joint operation with the U.S.-led coalition. The provincial police chief, Faqir Mohammad ...

BAGHDAD: Threading beads onto a fishing line to make a sparkling ornament, Lamia Rahim is one of dozens of Iraqi women displaced by violence who have turned to handicrafts to support their families. “It has been some time since we were displaced and my husband can’t find work,” ...