Islamic State
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Sri Lankan security forces on high alert for potential further attacks
- Asia-Pacific
- April 30, 2019, 15:33
Some of the Islamist militants behind the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people are likely still at large and could be planning mor(...)

Sri Lankan authorities received detailed warning 12 days before attack
- Asia-Pacific
- April 29, 2019, 10:20
More evidence emerged on Monday that the Sri Lankan government had ignored detailed warnings about an imminent terrorist attack, days before suicide b(...)

Fifteen killed in Sri Lanka gun battle
- Asia-Pacific
- April 27, 2019
The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a milita(...)

Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings revised down by about 100
- Asia-Pacific
- April 25, 2019, 14:32
Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from the Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body(...)

Rights groups raise concerns as Saudi Arabia executes 37 in one day
- Middle East
- April 24, 2019, 09:52
Saudi Arabia executed 37 people on Tuesday after they had been sentenced to death for terrorism-related crimes. At least 33 of those executed belong(...)

At least 18 killed in suicide bomb attack on market in Pakistan
- Asia-Pacific
- April 12, 2019, 13:15
A suicide bomb ripped through an outdoor Pakistani market on Friday, killing at least 18 people, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an at(...)

US midwestern states shaken by influence of Islamic State
- US
- March 13, 2019, 01:00
Islamic State may be on the brink of defeat in Syria, but its ideology remains a potent recruitment tool. In the American midwest, a region that has p(...)

Frenchman jailed for life for first Isis attack in Europe
- Europe
- March 12, 2019, 20:01
Mehdi Nemmouche, the Frenchman who murdered four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24th, 2014, will serve a life sentence in France, a 12(...)

The Irish Times view on Islamic State’s collapse: Managing the fallout
- Editorial
- March 11, 2019, 00:02
The thousands of people streaming out of Baghouz, Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria, tell a tale of imminent military defeat for the terro(...)

Freed Yazidi woman in Syria endured years of Islamic State slavery
- Middle East
- March 8, 2019, 15:44
Salwa Sayed al-Omar spent years as a Yazidi prisoner of the Islamic State terror group but she escaped its clutches this week, fleeing its last popul(...)