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Turkey detains IS suspect planning ‘sensational’ attack

1:54 pm August 25, 2020

Ankara: Police in Istanbul have detained a suspected Islamic State group militant who was allegedly planning a “sensational” attack in the city, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Tuesday. Anadolu Agency said the suspect, identified by the initials H.S., was detained in an operation at a hotel in the low-income Kucukcekmece district. Police seized an automatic rifle, spare magazines and bullets during the raid, […]

Explosives, ISIS flag recovered from arrested ISIS operative’s house: Police

8:14 pm August 23, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has recovered a large quantity of explosives and an ISIS flag from the house of Mohammad Mustakim Khan in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur two days after he was arrested in the national capital, officials said on Sunday. An alleged ISIS operative, Khan, armed with two pressure cooker IEDs, was arrested in central Delhi’s Ridge Road area on Friday night following a […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

NIA arrests ophthalmologist for alleged ISKP links

7:41 pm August 18, 2020

Bengaluru: An ophthalmologist has been arrested by the NIA for his alleged connection with the banned terror outfit Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP). The National Investigation Agency said that 28-year-old Abdur Rahman, a resident of Basavanagudi in the city, was arrested on August 17. The case was initially registered by the Delhi Police Special Cell in March 2020 after the arrest of a […]

UK government wins appeal bid in ISIS bride Shamima Begum case

6:51 pm July 31, 2020

London: The UK government on Friday won permission to appeal against a court ruling allowing London-born ISIS bride Shamima Begum to return to Britain to challenge stripping of her British citizenship. Bangladeshi-origin Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who fled London to join ISIS in Syria in 2015. The UK Court of Appeal ruled that the case must go ahead to the Supreme Court before she is allowed back into […]

Putin attends naval parade, promises new ships to navy

6:01 pm July 26, 2020

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said the Russian navy will get 40 new ships and vessels this year, as he attended a naval parade in St. Petersburg on Sunday marking the Navy Day in Russia. The parade in St. Petersburg and the nearby town of Kronshtadt featured 46 ships and vessels and over 4,000 troops and aimed to “demonstrate the growing power […]