The Latest Breaking News from Islamic State

Islamic State terror ‘conspirator’ held at Delhi airport

Arafath Ali had been absconding since 2020.

The Hindu · Sep 14, 2023

‘We need food and shelter’: farmers flee for their lives as terrorists attack villages in Mali

Civilians who have been displaced by raids want to return home but say there is no protection for them there

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023

US-backed Kurdish fighters report the capture of a senior Islamic State group financier in Syria

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they detained a senior official with the Islamic State group who was in charge of financing and arming sleeper cells

The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2023

Fighting between rival US-backed groups in Syria could undermine war against the Islamic State group

The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has kept a lid on the defeated Islamic State group for years

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2023

Sri Lanka government to investigate allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

Sri Lanka's government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2023

Syria's US-backed Kurdish forces hope to end weeklong clashes with militia in the 'next 24 hours'

Syria’s U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces are pushing deeper into the last stronghold of Arab tribesmen who have taken up arms against them in eastern Syria

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023

British man, 22, from Solihull killed fighting in east Ukraine

Family pay tribute to Samuel Newey, who had been volunteering for more than a year against Russian forces

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2023

Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North review

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist renowned for recreating ancient Middle Eastern sculptures, said Elena Clavarino on Air Mail. He does this not with limestone or basalt, but using cardboard, food packaging and other modern materials. In 2018, for instance, he recreated a huge Assyrian statue of a winged bull…

The Week · Aug 31, 2023

Terror case student wanted to ‘debate against’ views of Islamic State, jury told

Prosecutors allege engineering graduate Mohamad Al-Bared was designing a drone capable of delivering a bomb or chemical weapon.

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2023

French president pays homage to solider killed in anti-terror operation in Iraq

A French special forces soldier was killed and four soldiers injured during an anti-terrorist operation in Iraq, President Emmanuel Macron's office announced on Tuesday. It's the third French death in Operation Chammal this month.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 29, 2023