Tag: ISIL/ISIS

More than 115 people have been killed and nearly 120 others were injured following a brazen attack on concertgoers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall before a performance by a Soviet-era rock band on Friday. Assailants dressed in camouflage uniforms opened fire and reportedly threw explosive devices inside the concert ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – More than 50 people were killed and many others injured in bomb attacks in two different Pakistan provinces, officials have said. In the southwestern province of Balochistan, a powerful bomb exploded on Friday near a mosque in Mastung city, where people were gathering to celebrate the ...

The deadly July suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa highlights a troublesome trend of violence in the region. The bombing on Sunday targeted those attending a rally for the religious political party Jamiat Uleme-e-Islam-Fazal (JUIF) in the tribal district of Bajaur, some ...

Kozhikode, Kerala – A cash reward of 10 million rupees ($1,22,280) has been announced by a Muslim group in India’s Kerala state for providing evidence of claims made in an Indian film that thousands of Hindu and Christian women from the state were recruited into the ISIL (ISIS) armed ...

The raids follow a series of attacks conducted by ISIL, including a deadly bombing near a checkpoint in Kabul.Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has killed eight ISIL (ISIS) fighters and arrested several others in a series of raids targeting key figures in a spate of attacks in Kabul, a senior Taliban ...

From: Inside StorySeries of bombings in Afghanistan highlight security challenges since Taliban seized power in August.The Afghan Taliban says it has arrested the so-called “mastermind” of a bomb attack on a mosque. Police say he is a major ISIL (ISIS) operative, suspected of helping to kill at least 12 ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) has changed form several times over the years. With its origins in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, ISIL was forged from an alliance between an al-Qaeda offshoot and elements of the defeated Iraqi Baath ...

Police also said they killed three suspects allegedly involved in last week’s bombing in Peshawar that killed 64 people.An ISIL (ISIS) suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan last week was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack, police ...

ISIL-K has claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attacks outside Kabul airport. Here’s what we know about this group.The Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), also known as ISIL-Khorasan or ISIL-K, has claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attacks outside Kabul airport that killed at least 72 Afghans and ...

Condemnation and condolences have poured in from world leaders following the twin blasts outside Kabul’s airport that killed at least 110 people with dozens of others wounded. Thursday’s attack was claimed by an offshoot of the armed group ISIL (ISIS) in Afghanistan, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP ...