Police said the men were linked to the Barcelona attack, which so-called Islamic State said it had carried out, according to the BBC. Police are still hunting the man who drove his van into crowds on Las Ramblas in Barcelona ...
Read More »Barcelona Attack: Van Ploughs Through Crowd, Killing About 12
The head of the Spanish region of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, said at least 80 people had been taken to hospital and around 12 had died, according to Reuters. He said two people had been arrested. It was still not clear ...
Read More »Iraq declares end of Islamic State after capture of Mosul mosque
Iraqi authorities expect the long battle for Mosul to end in coming days as remaining Islamic State fighters are bottled up in just a handful of neighborhoods of the Old City, according to Reuters. The seizure of the nearly 850-year-old ...
Read More »Australia suspends air strikes in Syria after U.S. downing of Syrian jet
“As a precautionary measure, Australian Defence Force (ADF) strike operations into Syria have temporarily ceased,” Australia’s Department of Defence said in a statement, according to Reuters. Russia said on Monday it would treat U.S.-led coalition aircraft flying west of the ...
Read More »U.S. joins battle as Philippines takes losses in besieged city
The Philippines military said the United States was providing technical assistance to end the siege of Marawi City by fighters allied to Islamic State, which is now in its third week, but it had no boots on the ground, according ...
Read More »Isis claim responsibility for the Manchester attack that killed 22
At least 22 people were killed and around 60 more were wounded as explosives outside Manchester Arena as Ariana Grande fans left a concert, according to Metro. The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the Manchester bomb attack. Isis ...
Read More »Wild boars overrun Islamic State position and killed three fighters
Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of anti-ISIS forces, told The Times of London the militants were hiding on the edge of a field about 50 miles southwest of Kirkuk when the boars overwhelmed them Sunday, according to USA Today. Five ...
Read More »At least 45 people killed in Egypt’s Coptic churches deadly blasts on Palm Sunday
An explosion at St George’s Coptic church in Tanta killed 29 people. Hours later, a blast outside St Mark’s Coptic church in Alexandria left 16 dead, according to the BBC. So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the explosions, ...
Read More »London attack: Isis claims responsibility for terrorist attack by the Houses of Parliament
Isis has claimed responsibility for the Westminster attack that left three victims dead in the heart of London. A statement published by the group’s Amaq propaganda agency said a “soldier of the Islamic State” had carried out the atrocity by ...
Read More »New airplane electronics rules stem from ISIS-associated threat
New aviation security measures restricting electronic devices on flights from certain overseas airports were prompted by new threat intelligence obtained earlier this year indicating that ISIS associates were working on smuggling explosives-laden electronics onto U.S.-bound flights, ABC News has learned. ...
Read More »ISIS claims responsibility for Istanbul nightclub attack
ISIS group said in a statement the attack on Reina night club in central Istanbul was carried out by “a heroic soldier,” the BBC reports. At least 600 revellers were celebrating in the early hours of Sunday at Istanbul’s Reina ...
Read More »Suicide truck bomb explosion in Iraq: about 100 people killed, mostly Iranian pilgrims
Islamic State (IS), the ultra hardline Sunni militant group that considers all Shi’ites to be apostates, claimed responsibility the attack in an online statement, Reuters reports. The group is also fighting off a U.S.-backed offensive on its stronghold Mosul, in ...
Read More »Brussels attacks: Two brothers behind Belgium bombings
Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday have been named as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, Belgian nationals, BBC reports. The federal prosecutor said Brahim was part of the attack at Zaventem airport that ...
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