Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

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IS Terrorises Mosul Civilians As Iraq Forces Advance

Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul Tuesday, closing in on the Old City where jihadists executed civilians in a...

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IS ‘executes’ At Least 15 Civilians In Mosul

Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who...

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Frontline Clinic Window On Hell of IS-Held Mosul Areas

The horrific wounds and gruesome accounts of the victims filling a frontline clinic in west Mosul in Iraq offer a...

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Turkish Strikes Kill Kurdish Fighters In Syria, Iraq

Turkish warplanes killed more than 20 Kurdish fighters Tuesday in strikes in Syria and Iraq, where the Kurds are key...

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US-Backed Forces Enter Major Jihadist-Held Syria Town

A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa on Monday as they pursued their...

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Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri Calls For ‘guerrilla War’ In Syria

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on the armed Syrian opposition to wage guerrilla warfare against the...

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Volunteers Search Rubble To Save Mosul University

Leaning on his crutch, Nizar picks through the rubble where the main building of Mosul University used to be, looking...

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Ambush Kills Off-Duty Iraqi Soldiers In Anbar Province

Fighters have killed at least 10 off-duty Iraqi soldiers and injured another 20 in an ambush in a part of the country's...

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From Aspiring Stylist To Jihadist Widow

Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London....

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US Forces Kill IS Leader Blamed For Nightclub Attack

US forces operating in Syria have killed a senior member of the Islamic State group blamed for an attack on a nightclub...

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Tunisia Beach Massacre Case Set For April 28

The first public hearing into the June 2015 attack in the Tunisian resort of Sousse that killed 38 foreign tourists has...

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Iraq Forces Free 11-Year-Old Yazidi Girl In Mosul

Iraqi forces in Mosul have freed an 11-year-old Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a slave by the Islamic State...

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Egypt Army Says Senior IS Cleric Killed In Sinai

The Egyptian military said Thursday it killed a senior Islamic State group cleric and 18 jihadists in air strikes in...

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Satellite Dishes Reconnect Post-IS Mosul To World

Satellite dishes have been sprouting on the rooftops of east Mosul since it was retaken from the Islamic State group,...

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Iraqi Forces Treated For Chemical Exposure

Several Iraqi troops required medical treatment following a chemical weapons attack by the Islamic State group over the...

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Sombre Mood As Iraq’s Yazidis Mark New Year

Thousands of Yazidis flocked to a shrine in northern Iraq to mark the New Year on Wednesday, in the minority's biggest...

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In Mosul, Iraqi Snipers Track Jihadists Around the Clock

A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope...

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Australian Military Advisers ‘hit With Mustard Gas’ In Iraq By ISIS

Australian military advisers have reportedly been hit by an Islamic State gas attack in Iraq. On Sunday, the advisers...

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IS Attacked Iraq Forces With Chemical Weapons

The Islamic State group used chemical weapons against Iraqi forces taking part in the operation to recapture Mosul,...