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News Articles: Islamic State

President Biden bows his head in a moment of silence Thursday as he speaks about the situation in Afghanistan from the White House's East Room.

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  • Politics

The Evacuations Will Continue In Kabul Despite The Likelihood Of Another Attack

Biden has pledged the U.S. will target the assets, leadership and facilities of ISIS-K, the Islamic State group's affiliate that has reportedly claimed responsibility for the terror attack.

August 27, 2021
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By:
  • Barbara Sprunt
Medical and hospital staff carry an injured man on a stretcher for treatment outside the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport after blasts Thursday. U.S. service members and Afghan civilians were among those killed and injured.

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  • World

What We Know About ISIS-K, The Group Behind The Kabul Attacks

A regional Islamic State affiliate is a major rival to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The U.S. says ISIS-K has long planned attacks on its personnel in the country.

August 26, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
U.S. Marines conduct an operation to clear a village of Taliban fighters on July 5, 2009, in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan. The U.S. and NATO forces plan to withdraw their remaining troops from Afghanistan by September.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: U.S. Faces Hard Choices To Fight Terrorism After Afghanistan Withdrawal

Al-Qaida is degraded but not defeated. Analyst Colin Clarke assesses where the U.S. may be mapping out its future counterterrorism presence after withdrawing from Afghanistan.

April 15, 2021
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By:
  • Colin P. Clarke
The Sea Star 1, owned by the Tanzanian Zan Ferries, docked on Monday at the port in Pemba, Mozambique. The vessel has been used to evacuate people, mostly foreign gas workers, from fighting in Palma, Mozambique.

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  • Africa

Insurgents Kill Dozens In Attack On Natural Gas Complex In Mozambique

Days of fighting in the northern port city of Palma have left dozens of civilians dead as security forces battled to turn back an assault by a suspected ISIS-linked insurgent group.

March 29, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria.

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  • World

No Country Will Take Them: Alleged ISIS Widow With Kids The Latest Of Many In Limbo

The case of a woman who reportedly married ISIS fighters and is now stuck in Turkey with her young children has become the subject of a diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand.

March 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Residents inspect a damaged house after several rockets landed Saturday in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes the same day as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's meeting with Taliban leaders in Qatar.

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  • World

Kabul Battered By Rockets Ahead Of Pompeo's Planned Talks With Taliban

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed at least eight in the Afghan capital and came on a day when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was to discuss Afghan peace talks.

November 21, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
A man, wounded after gunmen stormed Kabul University, arrives in an ambulance at Isteqlal Hospital on Monday. At least 19 people died in the attack on Afghanistan's largest university.

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  • World

At Least 19 People Are Killed In Attack On Kabul University

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack by heavily armed gunmen who stormed the campus, firing on students, some of whom jumped out of windows to flee the attackers.

November 02, 2020
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid,
  • Scott Neuman,
  • and 1 more
Khaled Jamal Abdullah after running away from home to pledge allegiance to ISIS and join the militant group as a fighter. He had just turned 16.

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  • Middle East

Iraqi Family Identifies Their Son As ISIS Teen At Center Of Navy War Crimes Trial

The name of the young ISIS fighter was not revealed in U.S. court proceedings, and the records are sealed. NPR has identified the fighter with the help of Iraqi officials and the teenager's family.

October 30, 2020
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By:
  • Jane Arraf and
  • Sangar Khaleel
A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The military says the men were combatants but found no weapons.

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  • World

Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence

After NPR reported claims of civilian deaths in the operation against the ISIS chief, Central Command says the men showed "hostile intent," but it found no weapons or signs they fired at U.S. forces.

October 27, 2020
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
About 200,000 displaced Yazidis are in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many are waiting for help to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by ISIS in 2014.

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  • Middle East

A Yazidi Survivor's Struggle Shows The Pain That Endures After ISIS Attack

Six years after ISIS committed genocide against Iraq's ancient religious minority group, the Yazidis are not getting the help they need to recover.

August 08, 2020
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
A fighter of Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, Monday, July 17, 2017.

Lawrence Wright On The Growth Of Middle Eastern Terrorism From Al-Qaeda To ISIS

This week on “Two Way Street,” Lawrence Wright joined us in front of a live audience at the Atlanta History Center to discuss his new book, ” The Terror...

August 03, 2017
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By:
  • Bill Nigut

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