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Centre Empowers States To Declare SIMI Banned Group Under Anti-Terror Law
The Centre on Monday gave powers to all states and Union Territories to declare the terrorist group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) a banned organisation under the anti-terror law UAPA.
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After Assam's Disclosure On Terror Module, Meghalaya Keeps A Close Watch
Meghalaya is keeping a close watch on various movements in the state after neighbouring Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said "Assam is becoming a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalists".
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Taliban Say Four Islamic State Members Captured Near Kabul
Taliban forces raided an area west of Kabul and captured four members of an Islamic State cell, the movement's main spokesman said on Wednesday.
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US Doubles Reward For IS Leader To $10 Million
The United States on Wednesday doubled to $10 million its reward for the capture of the supremo of the Islamic State extremist movement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced.
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Baghdadi Was Given Up By ISIS Insider Who May Get $25 Million US Bounty
US commandos zeroed in on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's final hideout with the help of an extraordinarily well-placed informant, an ISIS operative who facilitated the terrorist leader's movements around Syria and even helped oversee construction work on his Syrian safe house, according to US and Middle East-based officials knowledgeable about the operatio...
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More Than 100 ISIS Prisoners Have Escaped In Syria: US Envoy
More than 100 prisoners of the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist movement have escaped in Syria in the chaos since Turkey's incursion, a senior US official said Wednesday.
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Stop Questioning Police: Kiren Rijiju On Killing Of SIMI Men
As the Madhya Pradesh police faced questions over the killing of eight members of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) on Monday, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said the police or forces should not be questioned.
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Kyrgyzstan Says Uighur Militant Groups Behind Attack On China's Embassy
A suicide bomb attack on the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital last week was ordered by Uighur militants active in Syria and carried out by a member of the East Turkestan Islamic movement, Kyrgyzstan's state security service said on Tuesday.
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More Than 55,000 Killed In Syria In 2015: Monitor
More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015, the country's fifth year of war, including over 2,500 children, a monitor said today.
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Pakistan Taliban Reject Islamic State Leader's Claim To Be 'Caliph'
Pakistan's Taliban have rejected Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's claim to be the global leader of all Muslims, the movement said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday.
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French Far Right Sees Record Score in First Poll Since Attacks
France's far-right National Front saw record-high results in regional polls on Sunday, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris.
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ISIS's Online Supporters Include 300 Americans: Report
Active online supporters of the Syria-based Islamic State movement now include about 300 people identifiable as Americans, said a study by academic experts published on Tuesday.
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British Police Call Him an ISIS Recruiter, He Says He's Just an Outspoken Preacher
Mizanur Rahman sat in a coffee shop in Palmers Green, wearing a court-mandated electronic ankle bracelet beneath his long, black Muslim robe. British authorities consider him an Islamic State recruiter, so they closely monitor his movements and have taken his passport.
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Tunisia Group Claims Beheading of Teen Shepherd for Islamic State
A jihadist group claimed the beheading of a young Tunisian shepherd on behalf of Islamic State, accusing him of having informed the army about their movements in the central province of Sidi Bouzid, in a video posted on the Internet Sunday.
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World Leaders at G20 Raise Alarm Over Foreign Jihadists After Paris Attack
World leaders raised the alarm over an escalating international movement of "foreign terrorist fighters" in a draft statement drawn up Sunday at a summit in Turkey after the Paris assaults claimed by Islamic State jihadists.
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Centre Empowers States To Declare SIMI Banned Group Under Anti-Terror Law
The Centre on Monday gave powers to all states and Union Territories to declare the terrorist group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) a banned organisation under the anti-terror law UAPA.
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After Assam's Disclosure On Terror Module, Meghalaya Keeps A Close Watch
Meghalaya is keeping a close watch on various movements in the state after neighbouring Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said "Assam is becoming a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalists".
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Taliban Say Four Islamic State Members Captured Near Kabul
Taliban forces raided an area west of Kabul and captured four members of an Islamic State cell, the movement's main spokesman said on Wednesday.
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US Doubles Reward For IS Leader To $10 Million
The United States on Wednesday doubled to $10 million its reward for the capture of the supremo of the Islamic State extremist movement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced.
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Baghdadi Was Given Up By ISIS Insider Who May Get $25 Million US Bounty
US commandos zeroed in on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's final hideout with the help of an extraordinarily well-placed informant, an ISIS operative who facilitated the terrorist leader's movements around Syria and even helped oversee construction work on his Syrian safe house, according to US and Middle East-based officials knowledgeable about the operatio...
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More Than 100 ISIS Prisoners Have Escaped In Syria: US Envoy
More than 100 prisoners of the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist movement have escaped in Syria in the chaos since Turkey's incursion, a senior US official said Wednesday.
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Stop Questioning Police: Kiren Rijiju On Killing Of SIMI Men
As the Madhya Pradesh police faced questions over the killing of eight members of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) on Monday, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said the police or forces should not be questioned.
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Kyrgyzstan Says Uighur Militant Groups Behind Attack On China's Embassy
A suicide bomb attack on the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital last week was ordered by Uighur militants active in Syria and carried out by a member of the East Turkestan Islamic movement, Kyrgyzstan's state security service said on Tuesday.
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More Than 55,000 Killed In Syria In 2015: Monitor
More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015, the country's fifth year of war, including over 2,500 children, a monitor said today.
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Pakistan Taliban Reject Islamic State Leader's Claim To Be 'Caliph'
Pakistan's Taliban have rejected Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's claim to be the global leader of all Muslims, the movement said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday.
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French Far Right Sees Record Score in First Poll Since Attacks
France's far-right National Front saw record-high results in regional polls on Sunday, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris.
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ISIS's Online Supporters Include 300 Americans: Report
Active online supporters of the Syria-based Islamic State movement now include about 300 people identifiable as Americans, said a study by academic experts published on Tuesday.
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British Police Call Him an ISIS Recruiter, He Says He's Just an Outspoken Preacher
Mizanur Rahman sat in a coffee shop in Palmers Green, wearing a court-mandated electronic ankle bracelet beneath his long, black Muslim robe. British authorities consider him an Islamic State recruiter, so they closely monitor his movements and have taken his passport.
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Tunisia Group Claims Beheading of Teen Shepherd for Islamic State
A jihadist group claimed the beheading of a young Tunisian shepherd on behalf of Islamic State, accusing him of having informed the army about their movements in the central province of Sidi Bouzid, in a video posted on the Internet Sunday.
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World Leaders at G20 Raise Alarm Over Foreign Jihadists After Paris Attack
World leaders raised the alarm over an escalating international movement of "foreign terrorist fighters" in a draft statement drawn up Sunday at a summit in Turkey after the Paris assaults claimed by Islamic State jihadists.
