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Islamic State

The latest news and comment on the Islamic State militant group

August 2024

  • Fans of Taylor Swift, some holding aloft mobile phones, raise their hands in the air as they sing in the city centre

    Third teenager arrested over foiled Taylor Swift concert attack in Vienna

    Iraqi man, 18, said to be an associate of main 19-year-old suspect in terror plot that has led to cancellation of shows
  • Swift on stage

    Taylor Swift concert plot: Austrian police find bomb chemicals in suspect’s home

    Austrian, 19, arrested alongside 17-year-old for allegedly planning Islamist attack at Vienna venue

    • Judges have refused to save Shamima Begum. Labour should bring her back to the UK to face justice

      Maya Foa

    • Shamima Begum: supreme court refuses to hear UK citizenship appeal

    • Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide

July 2024

  • Two black African soldiers in camouflage holding guns and surrounded by rocket-propelled grenades seen on top of a vehicle

    Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

  • Police officer holding an automatic rifle.

    Three suspected IS members charged in Belgium over terrorism plot

  • Palestinians examine buildings and collect remaining belongings from heavily damaged houses after Israeli attacks on Maghazi refugee camp: a man stands on the edge of a pile of rubble in a scene of devastation in which mattresses, bedding and other household items are seen.

    Gaza conflict could fuel IS and al-Qaida revival, security experts warn

  • A photo believed to be of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon in 2014

    Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court

June 2024

  • A man types on a keyboard in front of a computer screen on which an Islamic State flag is displayed, in this picture illustration

    Teen found guilty of being a terrorist organisation member released on probation in Queensland

  • Sergei Melikov and others stand on an ash-covered floor in front of a scorch-marked wall

    Dagestan attack highlights Russia’s vulnerability at home amid Ukraine war

  • An old woman in a headscarf sits in a tent holding a photograph of a ruined house

    Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps

  • Women and children walk at Camp Roj

    Government could repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps if it had ‘political will’, court says

  • Russian special forces kill Islamic State-linked hostage-takers

  • Rights and freedom
    Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds

May 2024

  • Åsne Seierstad sitting on a staircase

    ‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on

    The Norwegian writer on meeting the Taliban, her fears for girls’ education, and the legal battle that ensued after the publication of her bestselling book
  • An Afghan man works in front of the ruins of an ancient Buddha statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

    ‘We were fish in a barrel’: Australian tourist describes deadly Islamic State attack in Afghanistan

    Joe McDowell, 38, from Perth, was visiting Bamiyan when he was shot by a gunman who killed three Spaniards and three Afghans

    • Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly tourist attack in Afghanistan

    • Alleged Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash has moderated his views, federal police investigator says

    • Accused Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash ‘enticed’ by sermon at Melbourne mosque, court told

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