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Iraq to open tomb of 2,000 civilians killed by Daesh

The Iraqi government is seeking to open a "Al-Khasfa" tomb in the country's northern governorate of Nineveh, where some 2,000 bodies of civilians killed by Daesh are buried, local media reported yesterday. Saad Al-Abdali, a member of the Iraqi Council of Ministers' board, told Assabah that the opening of the tomb required "an international effort", adding that the hole was "the largest and bloodiest". "The corpses were thrown vertically and […]

today11 November 2020

International News

Daesh urges supporters to attack Saudi Arabia over normalisation with Israel

Daesh has urged its followers to target Saudi Arabia’s oil pipelines and factories in a statement denouncing the normalisation of relations between the UAE and Bahrain, and Israel. The terror group said that the so-called Abraham Accords formalised last month in Washington are a betrayal of Islam and accuse Riyadh of being complicit in the normalisation process. “Targets are plenty… Start by hitting and destroying oil pipelines, ‬‬factories, and facilities […]

today20 October 2020

International News

Court rules ‘Daesh bride’ Shamima Begum allowed to return to the UK

Shamima Begum, a UK woman who joined Daesh in 2015 as a teenager, has today won her appeal to be allowed to return to the UK. Dubbed a “Daesh bride” for having left the UK to marry a member of the terror group, British-born Shamima was 15 years old at the time of her departure. She was stripped of her British citizenship on national security grounds four years later. She claimed the decision […]

today16 July 2020

International News

Iran’s Khamenei blames US for regional instability, creation of Daesh

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and said Washington’s fight against the Daesh militant group was “a lie”. “You (the United States) and your agents are the source of instability in the Middle East…who created Islamic State [Daesh]? America … America’s claim of fighting against Islamic State is a lie,” Khamenei said in a meeting with high-ranking Iranian […]

today13 June 2017

International News

Daesh caliphate days are ‘numbered’, says UN head

The days of the so-called Daesh caliphate in Iraq are numbered” and discussions on how to rebuild the country have begun, reported Jan Kubis, head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). In a briefing to the UN Security Council, Kubis announced that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently received the long-awaited submission of the Iraqi Forces Coalition’s vision of a national settlement. Kubis briefed the Security Council yesterday by […]

today24 May 2017

International News

Homeless Syrian refugee toddler bitten by rats

Sitting in a dimly lit room with his three-year-old son on his lap, Taha points to the boy’s lips where a rat had bitten him twice while he was sleeping in the night. With a look of hopelessness, Taha, a refugee from Syria, explains how he and his family of seven now live in a horse barn in the Bekaa Valley after they were served eviction notices to leave their […]

today10 May 2017

International News

Daesh video shows Iraqi army’s losses in Mosul

Iraqi army and the Shia-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have suffered heavy losses during the Daesh-led offensive raids in the vicinity of Al-Salam Hospital, Daesh revealed in a video published on its official website. AlkhaleejOnline reported that the video, which was originally published by Daesh’s Amaq news agency, showed that dozens of cars and armoured vehicles were destroyed, some of which belonged to Iraqi forces and the others belonged to […]

today9 December 2016

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