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Key Islamic State leader killed in apparent US strike in Syria ASIA

Key Islamic State leader killed in apparent US strike in Syria

Islamic State said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Drone strike kills 3 Qaeda suspects in Yemen ASIA

Drone strike kills 3 Qaeda suspects in Yemen

A presumed US drone strike in southern Yemen killed three Al-Qaeda suspects on Tuesday, a security official and a tribal source said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Singapore jails two more Bangladeshis for terrorist financing INTERNATIONAL

Singapore jails two more Bangladeshis for terrorist financing

Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers accused of planning to join the Islamic State group were jailed Tuesday in Singapore for raising money to fund attacks in their homeland.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kerry says evidence of IS links to Bangladesh attacks INTERNATIONAL

Kerry says evidence of IS links to Bangladesh attacks

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that there was evidence to link the extremists behind a recent series of deadly attacks in Bangladesh to the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with Islamic State leader INTERNATIONAL

Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with Islamic State leader

A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group Islamic State, a senior minister said on Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Libya forces push into last IS-held areas of Sirte ASIA

Libya forces push into last IS-held areas of Sirte

Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government pushed Sunday into the last areas of Sirte held by the Islamic State group in what was the jihadists' coastal stronghold, a spokesman said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bangladesh hunts more extremists ahead of Kerry visit INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh hunts more extremists ahead of Kerry visit

Bangladesh police said Sunday they were hunting more extremist leaders after shooting dead the suspected mastermind of a deadly cafe attack, on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry's first visit.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Extremists stage mass jailbreak in Philippines INTERNATIONAL

Extremists stage mass jailbreak in Philippines

Extremists have staged a daring jailbreak in the southern Philippines, freeing 28 detainees in the latest in a series of mass escapes, officials said Sunday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkey sends more tanks into Syria after IS-held town capture ASIA

Turkey sends more tanks into Syria after IS-held town capture

Turkey on Saturday sent six more tanks into Syria as pro-Ankara forces pressed on with de-mining work in a town captured from Islamic State (IS) jihadists this week, an AFP correspondent said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kuwait arrests govt staffer promoting IS online ASIA

Kuwait arrests govt staffer promoting IS online

Kuwaiti police have arrested a government employee accused of spreading the Islamic State jihadist group's ideology online, the interior ministry said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraqi forces retake key town south of Mosul ASIA

Iraqi forces retake key town south of Mosul

Iraqi forces on Thursday pushed the Islamic State group from Qayyarah, a northern town considered strategic for any future offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold of Mosul.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Syrian Kurdish YPG calls Turkish operation "blatant aggression" ASIA

Syrian Kurdish YPG calls Turkish operation "blatant aggression"

Turkey's military intervention in Syria is a "blatant aggression in Syrian internal affairs", and results from an agreement between it, Iran and Syria's government, Redur Xelil, the spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Wednesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016