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 ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US will not “walk away” from the Middle East, a top general said Thursday, emphasizing the region’s critical role in the country’s national security priorities. During an interview with Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV, Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the region is “very im...
ANKARA (AA) – US Central Forces Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla visited the al-Hol and al-Roj camps of displaced people in Syria, where the YPG/PKK group holds the families of ISIS members. CENTCOM said in a written statement that the visit took place on August 21. The visit involved “interactions with camp administrators as well […...
