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    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Terrorism
      Six found guilty of murder over 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks

      Bombing of airport and metro station killed 35 in Belgium’s deadliest peacetime assault

      Lawyers and some of the accused at an earlier hearing in the Brussels bombing trial
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Uganda
      Rebels accused of killing dozens of school children in Uganda

      Kampala says Allied Democratic Forces slaughtered 37 people and abducted six others

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Erdoğan says Isis leader killed in operation by Turkish forces

      US has not confirmed Ankara’s strike on Islamist leader Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi

      Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      ReviewArts
      Shamima Begum tells her story in new podcast I’m Not a Monster

      The BBC series features testimony from the former Isis recruit and those who know her

      A woman smiles at the camera
    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Rabina Khan
      The UK should see Shamima Begum for what she is: a victim

      The girl who joined Isis in Syria aged 15 has been deprived of her British citizenship but she may have been trafficked

      Montage of images of Shamima Begum, a British passport, a map of Syria and the Isis symbol
    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Raffaello Pantucci
      Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies

      As western counter-terrorism efforts flounder, Kremlin-backed militias are offering support in Mali and Burkina Faso

      Supporters of Burkina Faso’s new junta leader Ibrahim Traore hold national flags of Burkina Faso and Russia
    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      Lafarge Cement
      Cement maker Lafarge agrees $780mn US penalty over payments to Isis

      Company accused of ‘donations’ to terror groups in Syria in return for staff protection and raw materials

      Logo on a plant of French cement company Lafarge in Paris
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Afghanistan
      Bomb blast at Kabul academy exposes growing danger for minorities

      Isis attacks have claimed hundreds of Hazara lives since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan

      A woman arrives on a motorbike to search for a relative at a hospital in Kabul after a bomb attack on Friday claimed at least 19 lives
    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      OutlookLaura Pitel
      My flight home with an ‘Isis Beatle’

      The complications of repatriating terror suspects explain why the UK retains good relations with Turkey

      Sketch of Aine David head and shoulders. He has a bald head and short black beard
    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Terrorism in France
      Terrorists behind 2015 Bataclan attack sentenced to life by Paris court 

      Searing 10-month trial for survivors and French nation sees 20 convicted

      Rescue workers help a woman survivor after the shooting at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on Friday November 13 2015
    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Bounceback UK Covid loans used to fund Isis, court told

      Prosecutors claim former pub landlord sent money from government scheme to terrorist organisation

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Terrorism
      Isis ‘Beatles’ member convicted in connection with hostage killings

      Former British citizen El Shafee Elsheikh faces life in prison after US jury finds him guilty

      El Shafee Elsheikh pictured in a federal court room during his trial
    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      Mali
      France to refocus anti-terror campaign as it leaves Mali

      European forces will shift support to Niger and Sahel’s coastal states after being pushed out of west African country

      Emmanuel Macron is flanked by Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo, right, and Senegal’s president Macky Sall
    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      Isis leader dies during US raid in north-west Syria

      Militant chief detonates bomb in village hide-out after special forces launch operation

      Syrians gather on Thursday at the scene of the overnight raid by US special forces
    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      Syrian crisis
      US-backed forces regain control of Syrian prison after siege

      Attempted jailbreak by Isis fighters is the largest attack by extremist groups in several years

      Detainees outside Al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah, northeastern Syria
    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Iraq
      ‘Fallujah Land’: Iraq’s Anbar province rebuilds after Isis

      Five years after defeat of jihadis, there are signs of fragile economic growth in area known as resistance hotbed

      Two women walk through the bazaar in Ramadi
    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Africa
      Three killed in Uganda bomb attack blamed on Isis-linked group

      Dozens injured in Kampala suicide blasts amid fear of jihadi threat spreading across east and central Africa

      Wrecked police vehicles in Kampala
    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Chloe Cornish
      Iraqi women displaced by Isis find new freedoms back home

      Families returning to Anbar province are allowing women to work, drive and abandon the veil

      A woman takes selfies at Lake Habbaniyah in Anbar province, Iraq
    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      Afghanistan
      US warns that Islamists in Afghanistan could attack America in six months

      Taliban struggling to feed millions amid drought and after international development support was cut

      Afghans carry sacks of food grains distributed as aid by the World Food Programme in Kandahar on October 19
    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      UK politics
      Secretive MoD ‘banking’ unit helps UK wage economic warfare

      Taskforce set up to disrupt Isis six years ago turns its attention to new ‘grey zone’ threats such as cyber

    • Monday, 11 October, 2021
      Iraq
      Iraqi security forces capture Isis ‘finance minister’

      Leading member of terrorist group apprehended in cross-border operation

      Iraqi security forces guard a polling station in Baghdad
    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      France says it has killed leader of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara

      Jihadi group linked to some of the worst violence in Sahel region

      Soldiers from the French Army in Sahel
    • Monday, 30 August, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      Wary US forced to rely on Taliban to contain terror threat in Afghanistan

      Washington holds out recognition of hardline Islamists’ government to protect basic freedoms

      A Taliban fighter guards a meeting on higher education policies at the Loya Jirga Hall in Kabul on Sunday
    • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      Kabul airport faces new threat as US withdrawal deadline nears

      Joe Biden says another attack ‘highly likely’ after US drone strike kills 2 Isis-K members

    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      Isis-K: the jihadis seizing on chaos of Taliban’s return

      Afghanistan’s new rulers are rivals of extremist group that claimed responsibility for Kabul airport attack

      A person wounded in the bomb blast outside Kabul airport on Thursday is taken to a hospital
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