Tag Archives: ISLAMIST MILITANTS
Militant video purports to show westerners held in Mali
:: Islamist militants operating in Mali released a video purporting to show six western hostages, ahead of a regional security summit in the West African country attended by France’s president on Sunday. A narrator speaking in English said the 17-minute
Militants cut off regime supply route to Aleppo
The ISIS group and other militants on Monday cut a vital supply route linking the west of Syria’s second city Aleppo with other government-held territory, a monitoring group said. The road between Aleppo and the town of Khanasser to the
Militants shoot dead two Egyptian policemen
Militants shot dead two Egyptian policeman in the capital of North Sinai overnight Friday, security officials said. The gunmen, suspected of belonging to ISIS’s affiliate in Egypt, shot dead the policemen in the town of El-Arish before fleeing in a
Ten militants, two soldiers killed in Tunisia clashes
At least 10 militants and two Tunisian soldiers have been killed in two days of clashes in the central Kasserine region near the Tunisian border with Algeria, a government official said on Friday. Tunisia’s military has been carrying out operations
Egypt ‘militant attack’ targets church on Easter
Islamist militants hit Egypt’s two largest cities on Sunday with a bombing in Cairo and an attack on a church in Alexandria, leaving one policeman dead and seven people wounded, security sources said, according to Reuters news agency. The first
Tunisian army kills two Islamist militants near Algerian border
Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants during clashes near the Algerian border, where the military has been targeted previously in ambushes, the army said on Wednesday. The fighting came after army and police launched a major operation this week to
Anti-IS coalition chalks out strategy in Riyadh
Military chiefs from more than 22 countries battling the Islamic State (IS) group began talks here Wednesday to assess the coalition’s current strategy and map out a plan to tackle other terrorist groups operating in the Middle East. A formal
Anti-ISIS coalition top brass begin talks in Saudi Arabia
Military chiefs of staff from 26 members of the coalition battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began talks in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The SPA said the conference, the fifth of its
France arrests five Chechens over suspected attack plot
Police arrested five Chechens in southern France on suspicion of preparing an attack, a police source said on Tuesday, nearly two weeks after Islamist militants killed 17 people during three days of violence in the French capital. The source said
Clashes with Syria Kurds kill 30 ISIS militants
At least 30 members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group were killed in clashes with Kurdish troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The fighting pitted ISIS militants against members of the Kurdish
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