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    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Erdoğan says Isis leader killed in operation by Turkish forces

      US has not confirmed Ankara’s strike on Islamist leader Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      ReviewArts
      Shamima Begum tells her story in new podcast I’m Not a Monster

      The BBC series features testimony from the former Isis recruit and those who know her

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Rabina Khan
      The UK should see Shamima Begum for what she is: a victim

      The girl who joined Isis in Syria aged 15 has been deprived of her British citizenship but she may have been trafficked

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Raffaello Pantucci
      Russian proxies seize the advantage in Africa’s Islamist insurgencies

      As western counter-terrorism efforts flounder, Kremlin-backed militias are offering support in Mali and Burkina Faso

    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      Lafarge Cement
      Cement maker Lafarge agrees $780mn US penalty over payments to Isis

      Company accused of ‘donations’ to terror groups in Syria in return for staff protection and raw materials

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Afghanistan
      Bomb blast at Kabul academy exposes growing danger for minorities

      Isis attacks have claimed hundreds of Hazara lives since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      OutlookLaura Pitel
      My flight home with an ‘Isis Beatle’

      The complications of repatriating terror suspects explain why the UK retains good relations with Turkey

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Terrorism in France
      Terrorists behind 2015 Bataclan attack sentenced to life by Paris court 

      Searing 10-month trial for survivors and French nation sees 20 convicted

    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Bounceback UK Covid loans used to fund Isis, court told

      Prosecutors claim former pub landlord sent money from government scheme to terrorist organisation

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Terrorism
      Isis ‘Beatles’ member convicted in connection with hostage killings

      Former British citizen El Shafee Elsheikh faces life in prison after US jury finds him guilty

    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      Mali
      France to refocus anti-terror campaign as it leaves Mali

      European forces will shift support to Niger and Sahel’s coastal states after being pushed out of west African country

    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      Isis leader dies during US raid in north-west Syria

      Militant chief detonates bomb in village hide-out after special forces launch operation

    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      Syrian crisis
      US-backed forces regain control of Syrian prison after siege

      Attempted jailbreak by Isis fighters is the largest attack by extremist groups in several years

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Iraq
      ‘Fallujah Land’: Iraq’s Anbar province rebuilds after Isis

      Five years after defeat of jihadis, there are signs of fragile economic growth in area known as resistance hotbed

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Africa
      Three killed in Uganda bomb attack blamed on Isis-linked group

      Dozens injured in Kampala suicide blasts amid fear of jihadi threat spreading across east and central Africa

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Chloe Cornish
      Iraqi women displaced by Isis find new freedoms back home

      Families returning to Anbar province are allowing women to work, drive and abandon the veil

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      Afghanistan
      US warns that Islamists in Afghanistan could attack America in six months

      Taliban struggling to feed millions amid drought and after international development support was cut

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Secretive MoD ‘banking’ unit helps UK wage economic warfare

      Taskforce set up to disrupt Isis six years ago turns its attention to new ‘grey zone’ threats such as cyber

    • Monday, 11 October, 2021
      Iraq
      Iraqi security forces capture Isis ‘finance minister’

      Leading member of terrorist group apprehended in cross-border operation

    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      France says it has killed leader of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara

      Jihadi group linked to some of the worst violence in Sahel region

    • Monday, 30 August, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      Wary US forced to rely on Taliban to contain terror threat in Afghanistan

      Washington holds out recognition of hardline Islamists’ government to protect basic freedoms

    • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      Kabul airport faces new threat as US withdrawal deadline nears

      Joe Biden says another attack ‘highly likely’ after US drone strike kills 2 Isis-K members

    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      Isis-K: the jihadis seizing on chaos of Taliban’s return

      Afghanistan’s new rulers are rivals of extremist group that claimed responsibility for Kabul airport attack

    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      Biden to press on with Afghanistan evacuation after bombings

      President says US will ‘hunt down’ perpetrators of Kabul attacks while UK enters final stages of rescue operation

    • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
      ReviewPolitical books
      Daughters of Kobani: the Women Who Took on the Islamic State

      PBS reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon explores the female-led battles of the Kurds in Syria

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