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Boko Haram fighters told to kill wives' as troops take its 'HQ'

ABUJA: Nigeria's military on Friday announced that troops had retaken the town of Gwoza from… Read More

Egypt warns women against marrying IS fighters online

CAIRO: Egypt's state-sponsored Islamic authority warned women Wednesday against marrying fighters from the Islamic State… Read More

Time names Ebola fighters as 'person' of 2014

NEW YORK: Time magazine on Wednesday named the medics who have treated patients struck with… Read More

More than 700 Iraqi Kurd fighters killed since June IS offensive

IRAQ: Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said Wednesday that 727 of its fighters have been killed… Read More

Kerry hosts first anti-Islamic State coalition meeting

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday hosts the first high-level meeting of… Read More

Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria to fight Islamic State

SURUC, TURKEY: A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town… Read More

IS fighters advance in Syria despite US strikes

DAMASCUS/MURSITPINAR Turkey: U.S. and coalition planes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria again on Wednesday,… Read More

Zarb-e-Azb: Several foreign fighters eliminated, hideouts destroyed

MIRANSHAH: In continuation of operation ‘Zarb-e-Azb’ in North Waziristan, Pakistan army eliminated various militants including… Read More