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As Philippine authorities announced the capture on Thursday of a suspected bomber for an Islamic State-linked (IS) group battling government forces in Marawi, a local official said witnesses reported seeing scores of bodies strewn in the city’s streets.Some residents were believed to be trapped in areas controlled by IS-affiliated militants
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An audio message purporting to come from the spokesman of the Islamic State extremist group has called on followers to launch attacks in the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the Philippines during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began late last month.The audio clip was
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The United States acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that its special forces were assisting Filipino soldiers locked in ferocious gunbattles with militant extremists in the southern Philippines, as local military officials said 13 Philippine Marines had died and dozens others were wounded in the latest firefight.The Philippine military
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Southeast Asian governments are struggling to determine how many Islamic State-linked foreign militants are in the southern Philippines, a year after IS leaders urged followers who could not to travel to Syria or Iraq to go to Mindanao island instead.Philippine military officials have identified people from six other countries among
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Islamic State terrorist group (Daesh) claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in the United Kingdom capital of London.A statement posted on Daesh's propaganda page said that the terror group had carried out the attack.On Saturday, at 22:08 local time (21:08 GMT), a vehicle struck pedestrians on
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – There are about 1,200 Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) operatives in the Philippines, including foreigners of whom 40 are from Indonesia, the Indonesian defense minister told an international security forum Sunday.Speaking in Singapore amid a bloody standoff between Philippine troops and militants fighting under the Daesh flag in
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The spokesman for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, said the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group has suffered losses of more than 80 percent of its combat troops and equipment.Speaking to Syrian state television on Wednesday, Ahmed al-Assadi said the Iraqi popular forces
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A leading Southeast Asian recruiter for Islamic State whom authorities had blamed for orchestrating the first terrorist attack claimed by IS on Malaysian soil was killed in Syria last month, Malaysia’s police chief confirmed Monday.Reports of the killing of Malaysian national and IS militant Muhammad Wanndy Mohamad Jedi surfaced on
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