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Dislodging ISIS from Mosul a significant strategic game: US

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said termed the operation a decisive moment in the counter-ISIS campaign

Mosul offensive a 'decisive moment' in anti-IS campaign: US

Ashton Carter promised continued support for Iraq

ISIS, Taliban faction responsible for killing three soldiers in Peshawar

Earlier both groups had claimed responsibility for another attack in Quetta, where a suicide bombing targetting a hospital had killed 74 people in August

Telugu teachers rescued from IS captivity in Libya return home

Two teachers of the University of Sirte were abducted by IS terrorists on July 29, 2015

Eight Islamic State militants held in Pakistan's Punjab

Counter-Terrorism Department seized 1,600-kg explosives, safety fuse and four non-electric detonators from them

IS spokesman al-Adnani killed in US air strike: Pentagon

Senior Islamic State leader and spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani in northern Syria has been killed

3 British-Muslims jailed for funding ISIS in Syria

They donated 10,000 pound to a relative in Islamic State controlled territory in Syria

IS announces death of Australian jihadist in Syria

Ten attacks have been foiled in Australia since the country raised its alert level to high in 2014

Wave of IS-claimed bombings in Syria kill at least 48

IS-run Aamaq news agency said the attacks included six suicide bombings and one remotely detonated blast. Most targeted security forces

US airstrike kills senior Islamic State leader in Syria

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani had served as principal architect of the terror group's external operations and as its chief spokesman

Islamic State buried thousands in 72 mass graves

Islamic State made never made an attempt to hide its atrocities, in fact it has always boasted of them

Islamic State turns to Telegram app after Twitter crackdown

IS followers, on Telegram are laying out detailed plans to conduct bombing attacks in the west

IS executes 40 persons in Iraq

Victims were executed over charges of conspiring against the IS rule in Mosul

Child bomber in Turkey not the only violent use of children

IS videos have shown boys killing IS opponents through beheadings and shootings

IS frees hundreds of 'human shields' in Syria

Fleeing jihadists took around 2,000 civilians, including women and children, on Friday to ward off air strikes

IS encouraging Malaysian youths for lone-wolf attacks: Experts

It is using new ways to radicalise Malaysian youths through Internet and encouraging them to carry out jihad

IS 'weakening' inside Iraqi city of Mosul: Pentagon

Jihadists, concerned that city residents are communicating with Iraqi security forces, have started cutting off internet access

Report: 9 citizens of Trinidad sought to join IS group

The Trinidadians were reportedly stopped by Turkish officials on July 27

Troubled childhood to alter killer in France

Adel Kermiche was an attention-seeking child whose behavioural problems frequently led him to a psychiatric hospital and later a specialist school. He died a coldblooded killer who slit the throat of an elderly French priest in the name of Islamic State.The son of a working class Franco-Algerian family living just outside the Normandy city of Rouen, the teenager flipped between model student and aggressor as a youngster. He blipped on the radar of security services in early 2015, when he made his first failed bid to reach Syria.Kermiche burst into a church on the outskirts of Rouen during morning mass on Tuesday with another teenage Islamic militant and killed the 85-year-old father at the altar, chanting in Arabic, before they were both shot dead by police."He was a loner. He was a troubled soul, he was all alone in his head," said a neighbour of the Kermiche family house in a leafy Rouen suburb where the 19-year-old was forced to live under a court surveillance order. "All he would t

35 civilians killed in US air strikes in Syria

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the air strike, saying seven children were among those killed