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Topic: Islamic State

2 more Indians from Kerala suspected to be among ISIS terrorists who attacked Jalalabad jail

A total of three suspects, all from Kerala, had gone to Afghanistan with their wives and friends to join the Islamic State between 2016 and 2018, investigators have found.

Controversy around New York Times’ reporter Rukmini Callimachi & her podcast on Islamic State

In episode 593 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta delves into the recent New York Times controversy surrounding its Middle East correspondent Rukmini Callimachi.

NIA busts ‘Bengaluru ISIS module’, arrests 2 suspected financiers for ‘radicalising youth’

NIA says Ahamed Abdul Cader, Irfan Nasir and their associates are members of an ISIS module called Hizb-ut-Tehrir. They have been remanded in 10 days’ NIA custody.

Islamic State ‘most active’ in southern states according to NIA probe, MHA tells Rajya Sabha

Home ministry says NIA registered 17 cases related to Islamic State presence in southern states of Telangana, Kerala, Andhra, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu, and arrested 122.

NIA arrests Bengaluru doctor with IS links who travelled to Syria in 2014

Abdur Rahman is believed to have been developing a medical and a weaponry-related application for Islamic State cadres.

Doctor from Kasargod could be among bombers who attacked Jalalabad jail in Afghanistan

Intelligence agencies suspect that Kalukettiya Purayil Ijas left India with his family in 2016 and has been working with the Islamic State since then.

UN report on ISIS in Kerala, Karnataka has no new intelligence input, say states’ top cops

Senior officers in Karnataka and Kerala said UN report on significant number of IS members in the states based on police reports, but they would analyse it. 

Sudan criminalises female genital mutilation, allows non-Muslims to drink alcohol

After almost 40 years of hardline Islamist policies, Sudan’s justice ministry has introduced many reforms, including cancelling a ban on religious conversion.

Why ISKP, the group behind Kabul gurdwara attack, is threat to India and Indians abroad

Indian intelligence agencies say the ISKP, with help from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, has been recruiting Indians from Kerala and other states.

IS tries to provoke Muslims, says countries fighting coronavirus are easy targets

Islamic State’s chat groups are abuzz with messages on how the coronavirus pandemic has provided an opportunity to carry out terror strikes.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.