ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least four police officers have been killed by ISIS in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in northeastern Nigeria in an attack on a police station, according to media reports. Members of the militant group attacked the station in the Nganzai region in the Borno state where in addition to the slain […]
ISTANBUL (AA) — Seventeen suspected members of the ISIS group linked to a shooting at a Catholic church in Istanbul were apprehended in an operation on Saturday, said Turkish security sources. Simultaneous operations, centered in Istanbul, were carried out by security forces to disrupt the activities of the suspects and prevent potential viole...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — Casualties were feared in northern Somalia after al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabaab launched attacks Wednesday against an army base, according to local officials. Heavy gunfire was exchanged during the multi-pronged strike on an army camp in northern Mudug province, a military official in the central state of Galmud...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Somalia has announced that it apprehended a senior al-Shabaab operative responsible for procuring weaponry and explosives from foreign sources. The spy agency said Sakaria Kamal, better known as Saki, is responsible for procuring weaponry “solely to arm the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Sunday it had thwarted 30 terrorist attacks by the ISIS in recent days. In a statement, the Intelligence Ministry said 28 members of a “terrorist cell” affiliated with the ISIS terror group were arrested in different provinces. The arrests were made following a series of raids in Tehran, Alborz [&helli...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The main accused in an attack on a popular shrine in southern Iran’s Shiraz city has been sentenced to death while two others have been handed a five-year jail term each. Judiciary-affiliated Mizan News cited the chief justice of southern Fars province as saying that the main accused Rahman Ela Norozaf, […]
KAMPALA, Uganda / JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Ugandan armed forces have killed 567 members of the ISIS-affiliated rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo since December 2021, President Yoweri Museveni said in an address on Thursday night. The ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group, which has been fighting to ove...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has discovered and disrupted a human smuggling network that set off alarm bells in law enforcement after it was determined that the effort was led by an individual with connection to ISIS, the White House confirmed Tuesday. “Intelligence alerted us of this human smuggling network,” spokesperson Karine...
Paris, France — AFP A member of an elite French commando unit has been killed in Iraq while “supporting an Iraqi unit in an anti-terrorist operation”, French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said. Sergeant Nicolas Mazier, an air force paratrooper, “fell in combat while carrying out his mission”, the Elysee...
ANKARA (AA) — Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has rejected a UN Security Council report claiming that several terrorist groups, including ISIS, are present in the country and have access to weapons left by US-led foreign forces. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and . . . in ...
