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Al-Qaeda application form reveals chilling bureaucracy of terrorism Yahoo and Agencies May 21, 2015, 4:19 pm A still from an undated al-Qaeda recruitment video. Photo: Getty Have you considered a career in international terrorism? al-Qaeda wants you. A job application form for becoming a...

US releases 100+ bin Laden documents By CONNIE CASS and ROBERT BURNS May. 20, 2015 5:19 PM EDT FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence officials have released more than 100 documents seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s...

US looking into whether hostage was kept by IS leader By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KEN DILANIAN May. 19, 2015 5:11 PM EDT FILE - In this May 30, 2013, file photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that...

'Kill them all': IS claims deadly bus attack AFP May 14, 2015, 8:07 am Pistol-wielding gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi stormed a bus carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority, killing at least 43 in the first attack in the country officially claimed by the Islamic State group...

Islamic state militants staged Iraq prison break - officials Reuters May 10, 2015, 5:07 am BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic state militants staged the prison break in Iraq in which 50 inmates and a dozen policemen were killed, said two Iraqi officials on Saturday. "ISIS was responsible for the...

Brunei arrests Indonesian with 'IS flag, bullets' AFP May 8, 2015, 6:36 am Jakarta (AFP) - Brunei has arrested an Indonesian man en route to Saudi Arabia after authorities found bullets and what appeared to be an Islamic State (IS) group flag in his luggage, Indonesian officials said...

Islamic State Reopens Luxury Hotel - Reports The five-star Ninawa Hotel in Mosul, which has more than 200 rooms, will apparently be used by the militant group's commanders. Tuesday 05 May 2015 The hotel was closed down when IS seized Mosul last year Islamic State has reopened a luxury...

Islamic State claims responsibility for Texas Prophet cartoon attack PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 May, 2015, 5:56pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 May, 2015, 5:58pm Associated Press in Cairo Personnel remove the body of one of two gunmen from the scene of the shootings in Garland, Texas. Photo: Reuters...

Egypt charges 40 people over Islamic State membership and terrorist activity Date May 4, 2015 - 3:55AM AP Smoke rises from a tourist bus in the Red Sea resort town of Taba on February 16. The government says an Islamic insurgency is on the rise. Cairo: A Nile Delta prosecutor says he has...

Reports 300 Yazidi executed AAP May 3, 2015, 9:03 am Islamic State militants have executed captured members of Iraq's minority Yazidi community, Yazidi and Iraqi groups say, amid conflicting reports about the exact number of the victims. The Yazidi Progress Party said the extremist militia...

Thai inquest unsure who killed Japanese cameraman AFP April 30, 2015, 6:35 pm Bangkok (AFP) - A Thai inquest into the death of a Japanese cameraman during a military crackdown five years ago against protesters ended inconclusively Thursday with the court unable to decide who fired the fatal...

Malaysia police say militant plot foiled ahead of summit AFP April 26, 2015, 9:33 pm Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - Malaysian police said they arrested on Sunday 12 suspected Islamic militants who were plotting attacks in the country just as it prepares to host a Southeast Asian summit. National...

Malaysia detains 12 suspected of IS links AP April 27, 2015, 5:22 am Malaysian police have detained 12 men suspected of being linked to the Islamic State group and who are believed to be plotting attacks on strategic government targets in the country. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar...

IS suicide bombers kill four at Iraq-Jordan crossing AFP April 25, 2015, 11:14 pm Baghdad (AFP) - The Islamic State group claimed an attack Saturday by French, Belgian and Senegalese suicide bombers on the Iraq-Jordan border that officials said killed at least four Iraqi security personnel...

Saudi blames IS for killing police, seizes bombs AFP April 24, 2015, 11:17 pm Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia said Friday the Islamic State group was responsible for killing two policemen in the capital this month and that it had seized three bomb-laden cars during its investigations. A Saudi...

Thousands of Ethiopians march in government rally over IS killings AFP April 22, 2015, 8:07 pm Addis Ababa (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched through the capital Wednesday in a government-organised rally condemning the murder of a group of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State...

Death march: IS video shows 30 Christians being shot and beheaded in Libya Addis Ababa condemns killings and is trying to ascertain if those murdered are Ethiopians PUBLISHED : Monday, 20 April, 2015, 12:38am UPDATED : Monday, 20 April, 2015, 12:47am Agence France-Presse in Tripoli...

IS shows purported executions in Libya of Ethiopia Christians AFP April 20, 2015, 2:08 am The Islamic State group on Sunday released a video purportedly showing the execution of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya. Addis Ababa condemned the reported killings and said its embassy...

Australia FM hails Iran effort to defeat IS AFP April 18, 2015, 8:30 pm Tehran (AFP) - Australia's foreign minister on Saturday hailed Iran's efforts to crush the jihadist Islamic State group in Iraq, saying on a rare trip to Tehran that the militants can be defeated. Julie Bishop is...

Thousands flee as IS group advances on Iraq's Ramadi By SAMEER N. YACOUB Apr. 16, 2015 11:17 AM EDT Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters stand guard in central Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 16, 2015. Clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic...