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Iraq Building Syria Wall to Keep out ISIS Fighters

Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop ISIS group militants from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday. In the "first stage" of construction, a wall around "a dozen kilometers (seven miles) long and 3.5 meters (11 feet) high was built in…

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ISIS Group Claims Shooting of Israeli Police

The ISIS group on Monday claimed a shooting in northern Israel that killed two police officers, according to a statement released by the Amaq propaganda site. "Two members of the Jewish (state's) police force were killed and others were injured in an immersive commando attack," ISIS said in a rare…

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Tunisia Says it Has Dismantled 150 Militant Cells in Past 6 Months

Tunisian police forces have dismantled about 150 militant cells in the past six months, the spokesman for the National Guard said on Saturday. He added that some of the foreign militants arrested were planning to join "Jond Kilafha", a group linked to ISIS in Libya and in the mountains on…

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Justice Ministers of Morocco, Iraq Discuss Judicial Agreement

Moroccan Minister of Justice Abdellatif Ouahbi has discussed with his Iraqi counterpart, Salar Abdul Sattar Mohammed, in Rabat signing a judicial agreement allowing Morocco to handle several cases of Moroccan ISIS members arrested in Iraq. The two countries were set to sign bilateral agreements, but Ouahbi announced at a press…

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Brit who rescued lion and wolf from Ukrainian zoo sold his home to help fight ISIS

British animal lovers Tim Locks and Jonathan Weaving crowdfunded the cash for the five-day mission to evacuate the a wolf and lion from war-torn southeast Ukraine, finding them a new home in Romania

Daily Mirror

‘Am I supposed to be in on this s***?’ Kid Rock says Trump asked him for help with North Korea and Isis

‘What do you think we should do about North Korea?’ I’m like, ‘What? I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this’

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Egypt Sets May 15 to Deliver Verdict on 8 Defendants Accused of Collaborating with ISIS

Egypt's Supreme Emergency State Security Court (SESSC) has set May 15 as the date for delivering its verdict in the case of eight suspects accused of collaborating with the terrorist ISIS group and plotting attacks against state institutions. The Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) had ordered the defendants to be…

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Iraq Digs Up Mass Grave Containing Bodies of ISIS Militants

Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 ISIS militants and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul. The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday and "work…

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Ukraine crisis: Karnataka CM receives mortal remains of Naveen at KIA

Naveen was killed in shelling by Russian armed forces in Kharkiv earlier this month

The Hindu

How to Use Syrian Oil as an 'Entry Point' to Breaking the Deadlock

In the face of the stability of the “borderlines” between the three Syrian zones of influence for two years, the continuation of the political stalemate and the emergence of a global energy crisis, a set of ideas is being circulated aimed at turning Syrian oil into a point of consensus…

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Morocco Arrests Five Pro-ISIS Extremists

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, supported by members of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) Special Force, arrested five pro-ISIS extremists in separate simultaneous security operations in several cities and towns on Wednesday. The suspects, aged between 21 and 44 years old, are accused of plotting terror activities…

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Police Break Up Militant Cell in Tunisia's Tataouine

Police have broken up a militant cell linked to ISIS in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Police said the cell was planning attacks with explosives and trying to recruit young people, according to the ministry statement. In November, police shot and wounded an…

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SDF Transfers ISIS Detainees to Stricter Prison in Syria

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) transferred over 1,000 ISIS detainees from the prison it operates in the town of Al-Shadadi, located south of Syria’s Hasakah governorate, informed sources reported. ISIS inmates were taken to a maximum-security prison that was built with US and UK funding. The UK alone has spent…

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US Man Who Tried to Join ISIS Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old Seattle man pleaded guilty Monday to a terrorism-related charge after being arrested while trying to board a flight to join ISIS. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested last June at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he checked in for a flight to Cairo. He entered a guilty plea in…

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On the 3rd anniversary of the Christchurch attack, the Ukraine crisis asks the West to rethink its definitions of terrorism

As the Russian invasion unfolds, a deep vein of Ukrainian nationalism – already irritated by the annexation of Crimea and a Russian-backed insurgency in the Donbas region – has been unleashed.

Evening Standard

Man jailed for sharing ISIS videos on messaging app

A man has been jailed for sending ISIS propaganda videos on an instant messaging app.

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Kurdish Forces Launch Massive Raids in Syria’s Al-Hol Camp

The Kurdish Internal Security Forces (Asayish) have arrested dozens of wanted persons and suspects at al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and counter-terrorism forces, in coordination with the international coalition, took part in the largest security crackdown on the camp since the beginning of the…

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NIA charges two alleged Islamic State operatives

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ISIS Confirms Death of its Leader, Names New Chief

ISIS confirmed on Thursday the death of its leader Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi Al-Quraishi and its spokesperson Abu Hamza Al-Quraishi, and announced Abu Al-Hassan Al-Hashemi Al-Quraishi as its new chief. Quraishi died in a US special forces raid in northern Syria in February when he detonated a bomb that killed him…

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ISIS names new chief after confirming death of former leader in audio clip

In a new audio statement, ISIS confirmed the death of Abu Ibrahim Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi and former spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi, before naming its new leader

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Mosul's Old City Rises from Rubble in War-scarred Iraq

Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists. Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the ISIS group seized…

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Arab, Western Countries Press for Accountability in Syria

The Syrian revolution celebrates its 11th anniversary next week, yet the Syrian people continue to suffer from the "war machine" and fighting that have been ongoing since March 15, 2011, amid Arab and Western calls for a political solution to the crisis. In a joint statement, 13 Arab and Western…

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Dozens of Soldiers Killed in Attack on Military Camp in Mali

A militant attack on a military camp in central Mali on Friday killed 27 soldiers and 47 "terrorists" were "neutralized", the country's army said, AFP reported. The fighting left 33 soldiers injured, 21 seriously, and seven are missing, the army added in a statement, while 23 other suspects were "neutralized"…

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800 Iraqi Refugees Return Home From Syria

Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow, a Syrian official in the region's Kurdish semi-autonomous administration said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first group left on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing. The Iraqi government has "agreed…

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Read What Activist Cevian Demanded From Ericsson Post ISIS Fiasco

Europe's leading activist investor Cevian AB pressed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) to amend its articles to give its Class A shareholders the power to convert their shares into Class B shares, Bloomberg reports. Class A shareholders carry ten times Class B's voting power per share, notes Bloomberg. Cevian holds ~5% of Ericsson's Class…

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