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Factbox-Islamic State loses second leader in two years

The death of its second leader in just over two years has dealt another blow to Islamic State, the extremist jihadist group which once ruled large parts of Iraq and Syria.

Reuters

IS leader killed in US raid in Syria remains murky figure

The leader of the Islamic State group killed in a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group’s videos

The Independent UK

Pentagon willing to review Syrian raid after reports of civilian deaths; Biden says IS leader blew himself up – as it happened

Unicef confirms that at least six children were killed and one girl badly injured in Atme; Joe Biden says Islamic State leader blew himself up

The Guardian - UK

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Biden says US raid in Syria 'removed' IS group leader from battlefield

US special forces have “taken off the battlefield” the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in a raid in northwest Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, adding that the operation had "removed a major terrorist threat".

France 24

US special ops forces launch raid in northwest Syria

Pentagon officials say U.S. special operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria overnight

The Independent UK

Kabul bomber was on a suicide mission to India in 2017

Was deported after CIA tip-off

The Hindu

Factbox-After the fall, Islamic State strikes from Iraq and Syria hinterlands

Nearly three years after their self-declared caliphate was dismantled and their forces defeated in a battle by the Euphrates river, Islamic State fighters are waging a guerrilla campaign from remote regions of Iraq and Syria.

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US-allied Syria force says it foiled major IS comeback plot

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force says that a prison overrun by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria is now fully under its control

The Independent UK

Revealed: how fake passports allow IS members to enter Europe and US

Seller whose passports have been used by those who illegally crossed Syrian border says: ‘it is not my job to see who is bad’

The Guardian - UK

Iraqi airstrikes kill 9 IS militants, including 4 Lebanese

Officials say airstrikes north of Baghdad in retaliation for an attack by the Islamic State group on an Iraqi army barracks earlier this month killed nine suspected IS fighters, Among those killed in Sunday's strkes were four Lebanese

The Independent UK

ISIS Strikes from Shadows in Vulnerable Syria, Iraq

With a spectacular jail break in Syria and a deadly attack on an army barracks in Iraq, the ISIS group was back in the headlines the past week, a reminder of a war that formally ended three years ago but continues to be fought mostly away from view. The attacks…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Islamic State strikes from shadows in vulnerable Syria, Iraq

Islamic State group militants carried out two of their boldest attacks in years last week

The Independent UK

Paris attacks accused fails to live up to the glowing image painted by his father, wife

On Friday, it was the turn of Mohammed Amri to testify before the Paris court trying himself and 19 other individuals for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. Amri admits that he drove the sole surviving terrorist, Salah Abdeslam, back to Belgium…

Radio France Internationale

Teen’s testimony reflects plight of children held in jails for IS group fighters

A massive operation by the Islamic State (IS) group to free thousands of the terror group’s fighters from a prison in northern Syria is over, more than six days after the attack plunged the facility and surrounding neighbourhoods into chaos. But new revelations have emerged about hundreds of children who…

France 24

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The Hindu

NIA chargesheets eight for running pro-IS channels

Their aim was to radicalise, recruit new members to IS, says agency

The Independent UK

Lisa Smith was proposed to by Islamic State propagandist in Syria, court hears

The Co Louth woman, 39, has pleaded not guilty to terror-related charges at the Special Criminal Court.

The Independent UK

Syrian fighters search for IS sleeper cells near prison

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters are searching near a Syrian prison for Islamic State group sleeper cells

The Independent UK

UN: Syria prison attack shows need to deal with IS detainees

The UN counter-terrorism chief says the attack by Islamic State militants on a Syrian prison holding around 3,000 of its fighters and about 700 children is a predictable tragedy spotlighting the need for urgent international action to deal with those allegedly linked to the extremist group in prisons and camps…

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The Independent UK

Dozens of armed militants still hold corner of Syria prison

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces say dozens of armed Islamic State militants remain holed up in the last occupied section of a Syrian prison, The two sides clashed a day after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced they had regained control

The Guardian - UK

Kurdish forces retake prison from Islamic State after six-day siege

The attack on the Kurdish-run prison in Syria was the jihadists’ most high-profile stand since 2019

ABC News

US-backed Kurdish forces seize Syrian prison from Islamic State after week-long assault

An Australian teenager is alive and in custody after he was caught in crossfire when Kurdish-led forces wrestled back control of the last section of a Syrian prison controlled by Islamic State militants.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Who are the kids trapped in Syria prison attack?

A distressing series of voice notes sent by an Australian teenager from a prison in northeast Syria underscores the plight of thousands of forgotten children who remain trapped in detention facilities in Syria and Iraq

France 24

Syrian Kurds say prison recaptured after IS group attack

US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria on Wednesday said they fully recaptured a prison in the northeastern city of Hasaka that had been attacked by the Islamic State (IS) group, ending the biggest jihadist assault in the country in three years.

The Independent UK

Lisa Smith tried to justify suicide bombings, trial told

The former Defence Forces soldier, 39, has pleaded not guilty to charges of membership of Islamic State.

The Independent UK

Iraqi PM inspects Syria border as IS attacks stoke fears

Iraq’s prime minister has made a rare visit to the country’s border with Syria, to support troops and state that Iraqi forces were capable of resisting the Islamic State group

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