Islamic State

Lebanon detains Palestinian man over ISIS-directed poisoning plots

Lebanon's security forces said they detained a Palestinian refugee allegedly linked to Islamic State over two poisoning plots

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Denmark police charge 2 in investigation into shipping drones to ISIS

Denmark police arrested and charged two people as part of a case linked to attempts to send drones to Islamic State in Syria

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Nigeria troops thwart Boko Haram attack on military base in Borno state

Nigerian troops repelled another attempt by Boko Haram to overrun a military base in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian sources said

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Speaking to and about extremists

De-radicalization practitioners need to be aware of the pitfalls of their language in the counter-narrative versus alternative narrative dichotomy

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Sudan takes custody of woman accused of belonging to ISIS in Syria

Syria's Kurds said they handed over a Sudanese woman accused of belonging to Islamic State and her baby to a Sudanese diplomat

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Boko Haram kills 9 in attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Borno state

Nine people were killed and nine others injured when Boko Haram fighters raided two villages near Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, the civilian militia said

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Iraq sentences senior ISIS leader to death

An Iraq court sentenced to death senior ISIS leader Ismail Alwaan al-Ithawi, also known as Abu Zeid al-Iraqi, who was in charge of the group's fatwas and education curriculum

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Egypt cleared to buy 60,500 tank rounds from General Dynamics

The US approved a possible foreign military sale to Egypt of 56,000 tank rounds for its M1A1 Abrams tank fleet and operations against ISIS

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Alleged Italian ISIS member captured in Syria may match known foreign fighter profile

Kurdish fighters in northern Syria detained an alleged Italian member of Islamic State as he was trying to flee across the border to Turkey with his wife and children

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Netherlands to pull F-16 fighter jets from ISIS mission in Iraq and Syria

Dutch F-16 fighter jets will end bombing missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria at the end of the year, the Netherlands government said

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