IS The Islamic State
Baghdadi's aide was key to his capture
Baghdadi would sometimes hold strategy talks with his commanders in moving minibuses packed with vegetables in order to avoid detection, Ismael al-Ethawi told officials after he was arrested by Turkish authorities and handed to the Iraqis.
Trump confirms death of Islamic State chief Baghdadi in US raid
President Donald Trump says that elusive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, dying "like a dog," in a daring, nighttime raid by US special forces deep in northwest Syria.
Instructions from headquarters: Islamic State's new guerrilla manual
After losing territory, Islamic State fighters are turning to guerrilla war - and the group's newspaper is telling them exactly how to do it.
Shamima won’t be allowed to enter Bangladesh: Foreign Ministry
Affirming the country’s stance of zero tolerance to terrorism and violent extremism, the government of Bangladesh states that it will not allow Shamima Begum to enter to the country.
US designates ‘IS-Bangladesh’ as Foreign Terrorist Organisation
The US Treasury Department has added two individuals and seven organizations including “ISIS-Bangladesh” to its sanctions list for global terrorism, it said on Tuesday.
Putin, Trump agree to defeat IS in Syria: Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, in a joint statement on Syria, agreed to continue joint efforts on fighting Islamic State until it is defeated, the Kremlin says.
57 dead in US-led strikes on IS Syria prison: Monitor
US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Russia claims to have killed IS leader Baghdadi
Russia's Defense Ministry says it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in late May.
Iran holds anti-Islamic State cartoon contest
Not long after staging a cartoon contest satirizing the Holocaust, a group in Iran launched another event — this time, aimed at the Islamic State extremist group.
Islamic State crisis: US-led Syria strikes 'kill dozens of civilians’
Air strikes by the US-led coalition targeting Islamic State militants kills more than 50 civilians in northern Syria.
IS posts 'health service' video
Islamic State appears to have released a promotional video for its own health service featuring NHS-style branding and an Australian doctor.
IS shows purported executions of Ethiopia Christians in Libya
The Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
3 killed in IS car bomb in Iraq
A car bombing claimed by Islamic State kills three people on Friday outside the US consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.
'2,000 removed from Syrian camp after IS advance'
Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus after the Islamic State group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP.
Islamic State recruits 400 children since January: Syria monitor
A monitoring group says, since last three months, the Islamic State has recruited at least 400 children in Syria and trained them as so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" and hard line indoctrination.
Nine British medics feared to have crossed into Syria
Nine British medical students and doctors are feared to has travel to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State militants.
‘IS online threat’ to US military
The US defence department says it is investigating an online threat allegedly made by Islamic State to about 100 of its military personnel, and posted a list of the names and addresses on a website linked to the group alongside a call for them to be killed
ICC should prosecute Islamic State for Iraq genocide, war crimes: UN
The United Nations human rights office said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have committed genocide against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes against civilians including children.
