Belgian police have shot dead a man suspected of killing two Swedish nationals and injuring a third person in a gun attack condemned by the country’s leader as “terrorist madness”. “The perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Brussels has been…
Burkina Faso police kill 40 Islamic fighters after ambush – Army
The Police in Burkina Faso have killed 40 Islamist fighters, the army said on Sunday. The terrorists ambushed a police reconnaissance mission in Koulpelogo province in the north-east of the country on Saturday, the military said. Five police officers were…
Pakistani police suspect Islamic State as bomb death toll reaches 46
Pakistani investigators on Monday pointed the finger at the extremist Islamic State group as the death toll from a suicide bombing at a political rally climbed to 46, officials said. A suicide bomber blew himself up among the crowd at…
Uganda school attack: 40 killed by militants linked to Islamic State group
Around 40 people, mostly students, have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group. A further eight people remain in a critical condition after the attack on Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe.…
Afghan forces kill 5 IS militants in northern Kunduz province
Security forces stormed a suspected hideout of Daesh or Islamic State (IS) outfit in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, killing five insurgents on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Abidullah Abidi said. “Acting on tip of the security forces stormed a hideout of…
Burkina Faso army captain on state TV announces overthrow of military government
A Burkina Faso army captain on Friday announced the ouster of military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and the suspension of the country’s constitution and transitional charter in a statement read on national television. Army Captain Ibrahim Traore said a group of…
Appeal trial opens over 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in France
The appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for two men suspected of helping the gunmen who stormed the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, the first of a wave of Islamist terror attacks that…
At least 6 Mozambicans beheaded, Italian nun shot dead by insurgents
At least six people were beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique’s Nampula province, authorities said on Wednesday. Speaking in the resort town of Xai Xai north of the capital Maputo, President Filipe…
19th century Iraq church celebrates first mass since IS defeat
Dozens of faithful celebrated mass Saturday at a Mosul church in northern Iraq for the first time since it was restored after its ransacking by Islamic State jihadists. IS swept into Mosul and proclaimed it their “capital” in 2014, in…
Where is Abubakar Shekau?
Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader, has allegedly suffered serious injuries after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in northern Nigeria. According to one intelligence source on Thursday, “Shekau shot himself in the…
