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Burkina Faso: Thousands protest over jihadist attacks

YoopyaJuly 3, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 3, 2021June 13, 2023012

Thousands took to the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday to call for a tougher government response to a wave of jihadist attacks that...

Africa World

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction

YoopyaFebruary 26, 2021June 13, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 26, 2021June 13, 202308

Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students...

Asia News Us World

Trump confirms death of Islamic State group chief Baghdadi in US raid

YoopyaOctober 28, 2019May 29, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 28, 2019May 29, 202309

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the Islamic State group’s elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed, dying like a dog in a daring...

Asia World

Islamic State seen overtaking al Qaeda in South Asia social media war

YoopyaJune 19, 2015July 2, 2023

by YoopyaJune 19, 2015July 2, 202301

Islamist militant propaganda websites and social media accounts in South Asia are promoting Islamic State at the expense of al Qaeda, analysts said on Friday,...

Asia World

U.S. Rethinks Strategy to Battle Islamic State After Setback in Ramadi

YoopyaMay 20, 2015July 8, 2023

by YoopyaMay 20, 2015July 8, 202306

White House could boost support for Sunni tribal fighters. WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama, under growing pressure after a setback in the war against Islamic State, is...

World

Islamic State Video Purports to Show Killing of Ethiopian Christians

YoopyaApril 20, 2015July 1, 2023

by YoopyaApril 20, 2015July 1, 202308

One group of Christian captives is shot, the other beheaded. Islamic State released a video on Sunday that purports to show militants killing two groups...

Africa World

Islamic State group accepts Boko Haram pledge of allegiance

YoopyaMarch 13, 2015July 3, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 13, 2015July 3, 202302

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a spokesman for the...

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“Jihadi John” from Islamic State beheading videos unmasked as Londoner

YoopyaFebruary 26, 2015July 3, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 26, 2015July 3, 202301

LONDON (Reuters) – Investigators believe that the “Jihadi John” masked fighter who fronted Islamic State beheading videos is a British man named Mohammed Emwazi, two...

Africa News World

Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya

YoopyaFebruary 16, 2015July 9, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 16, 2015July 9, 202302

(Reuters) – Egypt’s air force bombed “Islamic State” targets inside Libya on Monday, a day after the group released a video appearing to show the...

Asia World

Islamic State says U.S. hostage killed in air strike in Syria

YoopyaFebruary 7, 2015July 8, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 7, 2015July 8, 202302

(Reuters) – Islamic State said on Friday that an American woman hostage it was holding in Syria was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a...