Islamic State

Indonesia says ISIS-linked militants stabbed security minister Wiranto

Suspected Jamaah Ansharut Daulah militants stabbed Indonesia's chief security minister Wiranto, leaving two deep wounds in his stomach and injuring three others

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‘The border is on fire’: Turkey battles Syria’s Kurds near Tal Abyad after ground invasion

Ground forces backed by Turkey entered northeast Syria to fight against the Syrian Democratic Forces as scores of civilians fled

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SDF unable to secure ISIS prisons in Syria if Turkey attacks

The US decision to clear the way for a Turkish invasion of Syria will jeopardize security at the prisons holding tens of thousands of ISIS suspects

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Trump approves Turkish incursion into northern Syria

US President Donald Trump looks set to allow a Turkish incursion into northeast Syria after announcing that US troops will pull back from the border

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ISIS claims attack on Egyptian security checkpoint in Sinai as Cairo braces for protests

ISIS said Sinai Province fighters attacked an Egyptian security checkpoint in North Sinai, killing 15 soldiers

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US ramps up airstrikes against ISIS in southwest Libya

US forces conducted the third airstrike in a week against Islamic State in southwest Libya, AFRICOM said

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Nigeria: ISWAP blamed for roadside bomb that killed 6 near Kamuya

Six people were killed when their car was struck by a roadside bomb near Kamuya in northeast Nigeria's conflict-torn Borno state

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ISIS claims ISWAP killed 14 Nigerian soldiers and captured 2 in Gubio ambush

ISIS claimed ISWAP affiliate killed a dozen Nigerian Army soldiers and abducted two other when they ambushed a military convoy in Borno

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US strikes ISIS in Libya for second time in a week

The US carried out an airstrike targeting ISIS affiliates near Murzuq in southwest Libya, the second such strike in a week

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France begins trial of 5 women accused in Notre-Dame car bomb plot

Five women went on trial in France in an alleged plot to detonate a car bomb in front of Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral

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