Kerala Isis Recruit

The political storm kicked up in Kerala by the controversial film 'The Kerala Story' continued to blow in the state, with the BJP claiming that recruitment into the Islamic State (IS) terror outfit from the southern state cannot be denied.

The module -- Ansar-ul-Khilafa Kerala -- was also involved in a secret campaign of recruiting, motivating and radicalizing Muslim youths to join ISIS, they said.

Three residents of Kasaragod and Palakkad districts are being questioned by the National Investigation Agency as part of a probe into ISIS recruitments from Kerala. Incriminating evidence was said to have been recovered during raids at their homes today.

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old man who was missing in connection with a case of ISIS-inspired youths from Kerala joining the West Asia-based terror group, officials said.

In a first conviction in Kerala related to cases of disappearance of people suspected to have joined terror group ISIS, a 29-year-old woman has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for helping the ISIS recruits from Kerala leave the country.

An ISIS recruit from Kerala's Kannur district has been killed in Syria, the police said today. Confirming the death of 30-year-old Abdul Manaf, a native of Valapattinam in Kannur in November last year, a senior police official said the news was received by his relatives on January 17 from his friend, who is also in Syria, through Telegram messenger...

Hadiya, who was known as Akhila Asokan before she converted to Islam last year, was released from her parents' custody in Kerala by the Supreme Court today. The court did not comment on her marriage but her lawyer says she can now meet her husband, Shafin Jahan, at the hostel where she will live till she completes her college course in homeopathy. ...

A Hindu woman's marriage at the end of last year to a Muslim man in Kerala will be examined by the country's top counter-terror agency, the Supreme Court said today. The National Investigating Agency or NIA has been allowed by judges to explore whether groups including the banned SIMI (Students Islamist Movement of India) are preying on vulnerable ...

Early this month, say investigators, an ISIS operative called Abdul Rasheed created at least two WhatsApp groups. He added about 200 people in Kerala to each of them and began transmitting messages, several of them in audio, urging them to join the Syria-based terror group.

A man from Kerala, suspected to have joined ISIS terrorist group last year, has died in US airstrikes in Afghanistan, according to messages received by his relatives. Yahiya was among the 21 men from the state who had reportedly gone missing after travelling to the Middle East last year in July.

A 23-year-old man who had gone missing from Kerala last year and was suspected to have joined the terror group ISIS, has reportedly been killed in a US military strike in Afghanistan. Murshid Muhammed's parents, who live in Mumbai, said they had received word of his death on Thursday through a message on a mobile phone app.

One of the 11 young men who were suspected to have gone to join ISIS from Kerala's Kasargode, has allegedly died in a drone strike in Afghanistan. The family today received a Whatsapp message that read, "Hafees has been killed in a drone strike yesterday. We consider him shuhada (martyred) and Allah knows best".

A case has been registered by Mumbai Police against an employee of controversial preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and three others, including two arrested earlier by Kerala Police in connection with alleged ISIS recruitment, a senior official said today.

The National Investigation Agency will soon take over the case of missing people from Kerala who are believed to have joined banned international terror group ISIS after the state police completed its investigation.

A 29-year-old woman from Bihar, suspected to be connected with recruitment of young men and women from Kerala for ISIS, is being questioned by the state police after being taken into custody from New Delhi.

The political storm kicked up in Kerala by the controversial film 'The Kerala Story' continued to blow in the state, with the BJP claiming that recruitment into the Islamic State (IS) terror outfit from the southern state cannot be denied.

The module -- Ansar-ul-Khilafa Kerala -- was also involved in a secret campaign of recruiting, motivating and radicalizing Muslim youths to join ISIS, they said.

Three residents of Kasaragod and Palakkad districts are being questioned by the National Investigation Agency as part of a probe into ISIS recruitments from Kerala. Incriminating evidence was said to have been recovered during raids at their homes today.

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old man who was missing in connection with a case of ISIS-inspired youths from Kerala joining the West Asia-based terror group, officials said.

In a first conviction in Kerala related to cases of disappearance of people suspected to have joined terror group ISIS, a 29-year-old woman has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for helping the ISIS recruits from Kerala leave the country.

An ISIS recruit from Kerala's Kannur district has been killed in Syria, the police said today. Confirming the death of 30-year-old Abdul Manaf, a native of Valapattinam in Kannur in November last year, a senior police official said the news was received by his relatives on January 17 from his friend, who is also in Syria, through Telegram messenger...

Hadiya, who was known as Akhila Asokan before she converted to Islam last year, was released from her parents' custody in Kerala by the Supreme Court today. The court did not comment on her marriage but her lawyer says she can now meet her husband, Shafin Jahan, at the hostel where she will live till she completes her college course in homeopathy. ...

A Hindu woman's marriage at the end of last year to a Muslim man in Kerala will be examined by the country's top counter-terror agency, the Supreme Court said today. The National Investigating Agency or NIA has been allowed by judges to explore whether groups including the banned SIMI (Students Islamist Movement of India) are preying on vulnerable ...

Early this month, say investigators, an ISIS operative called Abdul Rasheed created at least two WhatsApp groups. He added about 200 people in Kerala to each of them and began transmitting messages, several of them in audio, urging them to join the Syria-based terror group.

A man from Kerala, suspected to have joined ISIS terrorist group last year, has died in US airstrikes in Afghanistan, according to messages received by his relatives. Yahiya was among the 21 men from the state who had reportedly gone missing after travelling to the Middle East last year in July.

A 23-year-old man who had gone missing from Kerala last year and was suspected to have joined the terror group ISIS, has reportedly been killed in a US military strike in Afghanistan. Murshid Muhammed's parents, who live in Mumbai, said they had received word of his death on Thursday through a message on a mobile phone app.

One of the 11 young men who were suspected to have gone to join ISIS from Kerala's Kasargode, has allegedly died in a drone strike in Afghanistan. The family today received a Whatsapp message that read, "Hafees has been killed in a drone strike yesterday. We consider him shuhada (martyred) and Allah knows best".

A case has been registered by Mumbai Police against an employee of controversial preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and three others, including two arrested earlier by Kerala Police in connection with alleged ISIS recruitment, a senior official said today.

The National Investigation Agency will soon take over the case of missing people from Kerala who are believed to have joined banned international terror group ISIS after the state police completed its investigation.

A 29-year-old woman from Bihar, suspected to be connected with recruitment of young men and women from Kerala for ISIS, is being questioned by the state police after being taken into custody from New Delhi.