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    Daesh exploits COVID-19 to mount more attacks

    10 May 2020

    Daesh is exploiting the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus to regroup, recoup, and mount frequent attacks in Iraq and Syria. Daesh’s leadership has announced a “Ramadan offensive” and urged fighters to open up a second front by carrying out operations while the Iraqi and Syrian governments fight Covid-19. This broad front has taken priority over mopping up Daesh remnants.

    Trump’s racism goes beyond racial division

    04 Jul 2020

    President Trump is making plain the degree to which the country remains divided by the American Civil War. His threat to veto the $718bn Defence Bill if it renames military bases called after Confederate generals harks back to 1861. His stand highlights the bizarre way that the US military has named its biggest bases, like Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Hood in Texas, after Confederate generals like Braxton Bragg and John Hood who fought a war to destroy the US.

    Three killed in suspected Daesh attack outside Libyan oilfield

    19 May 2019

    The death toll was confirmed by the National Oil Company (NOC) which condemned the attack in a statement on Saturday evening.

    UN calls for civilian protection in northwestern Syria

    07 May 2019

    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the warring parties in Syria's northwest, where the Syrian government and its ally Russia

    Taliban kill six Daesh members in raid in Afghan capital

    22 Oct 2022

    The Daesh members killed in the raid on their hideout were involved in two major attacks in recent weeks, one on a city mosque and the other on a tutoring institute in which dozens of female students were killed, said the spokesman.

    Russia air strikes kill 10 civilians in northwest Syria

    20 May 2019

    Clashes between regime forces and militants raged Monday on the edge of the region held by Syria's former Al Qaeda affiliate, following the deadly air raids overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

    Daesh militants riot in Tajik prison, 32 killed

    20 May 2019

    Three prison guards and 29 inmates have been killed in a high-security prison in Tajikistan after convicted Daesh militants started a riot, the Central Asian nation's Justice Ministry said on Monday.

    Replicas of Assyrian statues smashed by Daesh unveiled

    24 Oct 2019

    Two high-tech replicas of iconic Assyrian statues destroyed by the Daesh group in northern Iraq were unveiled on Thursday at the University of Mosul.

    At least 21 killed in Kabul mosque blast

    18 Aug 2022

    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power. Several children were reported to be among the wounded.

    Daesh militants hit US-backed Kurdish fighters in north Syria

    09 Oct 2019

    A US-backed force and two Syrian activist groups say Daesh militants have carried out an attack in the city of Raqqa in northern Syria. The early on Wednesday attack targeted a post

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