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News Articles: Islamic State

A locator map shows Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert.

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  • Middle East

7 U.S. troops hurt in Iraq raid targeting Islamic State group militants that killed 15

The U.S. military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants that killed at least 15 people and saw seven U.S. troops hurt, officials said.

August 31, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A photo taken on Oct. 27, 2019, shows the inside of the van that Syrian Barakat Ahmad Barakat says he was in when it was targeted by U.S. forces the night of the raid on an ISIS compound, in northwestern Syria.

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  • Middle East

The Pentagon is reinvestigating if troops killed civilians in its 2019 Baghdadi raid

A prior investigation rejected claims that civilians were killed and wounded in the raid targeting ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon says it's reinvestigating after an NPR report.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
The criminal complaint against Alexander Scott Mercurio is photographed on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.

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  • National

Prosecutors say an Idaho man planned a church attack to support the Islamic State

Authorities said Alexander Scott Mercurio adopted the Muslim faith against his Christian parents' wishes and was in contact with FBI informants posing as Islamic State group supporters.

April 10, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall on Saturday, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, killed at least 133 people.

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  • Europe

Death toll from Moscow concert hall attack rises to 133 as Putin addresses the nation

The Russian president described the violent shooting as "a bloody, barbaric terrorist act" after a group linked to the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the event.

March 23, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Rosman
People gather at the site of an explosion in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday. Two bombs exploded at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said.

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  • Middle East

Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide bombings that killed dozens in Iran

The bombings, which killed at least 84, targeted a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike. Wednesday's event was the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades.

January 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Sunday's suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Monday, July 31, 2023.

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  • Asia

The death toll in the Pakistan suicide bombing rises as families hold funerals

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing, which killed dozens and wounded nearly 200 people.

July 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Marine Maj. Bull Gurfein pulls down a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on March 21, 2003, a day after the start of the U.S. invasion, in Safwan, Iraq.

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  • Middle East

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq

Two decades ago, then-President George W. Bush announced the start of combat operations in Iraq. The bloody occupation that followed lasted longer and cost more in lives and money than anyone guessed.

March 19, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman and
  • Larry Kaplow
A banner for the victims of the bombings reads "I am Brussels" at the Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels, March 23, 2016. The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and an underground metro station starts in earnest this week.

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  • Europe

Survivors of the Brussels suicide attacks seek closure as the trial starts Monday

More than six years since the deadliest peacetime attacks on Belgian soil, survivors seek closure as the trial of 10 men accused over the suicide bombings starts in earnest Monday.

December 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Police keep watch as an ambulance is parked outside the PNP Custodial Compound in Camp Crame police headquarters, Metro Manila, Philippines on Sunday Oct. 9, 2022.

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  • Asia

Filipino police kill 3 inmates in jail rampage after ex-senator was held hostage

Philippine police killed three detained militants linked to Islamic State after they staged a Manila jail rampage that saw a police officer stabbed and a former opposition senator held hostage.

October 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State.

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  • National

An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages

El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a group known as the "ISIS Beatles," is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to be convicted in the U.S,, prosecutors said.

August 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Middle East

A U.S.-led military raid in Syria captures a senior IS leader

The coalition did not name the person but identified him as one of the top leaders of the extremist group's Syria branch.

June 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A jury convicted a British national El Shafee Elsheikh for his role in an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

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  • National Security

A member of Islamic State group known as 'Beatles' is convicted in Americans' deaths

A jury convicted a British national for his role in hostage-takings that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded.

April 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook shows Ali Harbi Ali in the dock at the Old Bailey accused of stabbing to death David Amess, a Conservative member of Parliament, in London on March 21.

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  • Europe

An Islamic State supporter is found guilty of killing U.K. lawmaker David Amess

After just 18 minutes, a jury found Ali Harbi Ali guilty of murder and preparing terrorist acts. Ali stabbed Amess to death last year while he was meeting with voters at a church in eastern England.

April 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Israeli security forces gather at the site of an attack that left two Israeli police dead in the northern city of Hadera on Sunday.

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  • Middle East

The Islamic State claims responsibility for the deaths of 2 people in central Israel

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility after a pair of Arab gunmen killed two people and wounded four before being killed by police in the city of Hadera in central Israel.

March 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People check a destroyed house after a U.S. military operation in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, on Thursday. U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid. Local residents and activists said civilians were also among the dead.

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  • World

What is known about the ISIS leader who died during a U.S. raid in Syria

The leader of the Islamic State group who died during a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group's videos.

February 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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