Belgium has taken back six orphaned children of Daesh members from Syria, the US-backed militia which is holding thousands of militants and their family members said late on Thursday. “This must be extended to men and women in our camps and prison, not only children,” Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), […]
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Born under Daesh, sick Iraqi children left undocumented, untreated
No documents? No doctor. Without state-issued IDs, Iraqi mothers struggle to have children born under the now-defeated Daesh treated for conditions ranging from asthma to epilepsy. “It’s unjust,” said Salima, a 36-year-old mother of four living in the Laylan 2 displacement camp in northern Iraq. Three of her children were born under Daesh rule and […]
Yazidis to accept children of Daesh rape into community
The children of Yazidi women raped by Daesh men will be welcomed into the minority faith, a community leader said Thursday, allowing women taken as slaves by the militant group to return to Iraq from Syria. Eido Baba Sheikh, son of the Yazidi spiritual leader Baba Sheikh, said the children of the formerly enslaved women […]
5 suspects affiliated with ISIS arrested in Karachi
Five suspected Daesh terrorists were arrested in Karachi’s Taiser Town during a raid on Monday. The suspects were identified as Abdullah, alias Hamza, Waqar, Waseem, Naveed and Mudassir, the SSP said. The suspects would indoctrinate people over social media and give them various incentives to join Daesh, the SSP explained. Police conducted a raid on […]
Daesh recruit says many foreign fighters jailed or killed
A Tajik man who joined Daesh said many foreigners who enlisted in its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria were jailed or killed for trying to leave. The 28-year-old, who once drove a taxi in Moscow, said he handed himself over to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed group, from Daesh’s last holdout of […]
62 dead in militant attacks and tribal clashes; Daesh claims killing of Canadian
Sixty-two people were killed this week in militant attacks and subsequent intercommunal clashes in north Burkina Faso, a minister said Wednesday. “There were 62 deaths,” Simeon Sawadogo, minister for territorial administration, said of the violence between Sunday and Tuesday in Arbina commune, near the Mali border. “We have 32 dead because of the terrorists. We […]
Daesh ‘caliphate’ exodus overwhelms Syria hospitals
Young children nursing severe facial burns, others suffering from malnutrition — an exodus of jihadist families and civilians from the Daesh group’s vanquished final enclave is overwhelming eastern Syria’s hospitals. A handful of health facilities in the Kurdish-administered northeast receive dozens of patients every day, often including young victims who are terribly disfigured, some allegedly […]
3,000 surrender from IS Syria bastion as end nears
Airstrikes and shelling have pummelled the Islamic State group’s holdout of Baghouz for two nights in a row Around 3,000 Islamic State members have surrendered from the group’s last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said Tuesday, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull. A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village […]
Daesh slips into Iraq
Hundreds Daesh fighters have crossed the open, desert border in the past six months, defying a massive operation by US, Kurdish, and allied forces “IS is trying to assert itself in Iraq, because of the pressure it is under in Syria,” said the Iraqi army spokesman Daesh fighters facing defeat in Syria are slipping across […]
Russia terms minister’s statement ‘slip of tongue’ on Daesh moment
Russia clarified the statement of Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov over the Daesh movement and termed it as ‘slip of tongue’ adding that the two countries shared close ties in fighting terrorism. Russian Interior Minister Igor Zubov earlier this week said that an unidentified helicopter transported a large number of terrorist from Pakistan to Tajikstan […]