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Drone strike kills Islamic State leader in Syria, US says

The U.S. military said it killed a top Islamic State leader and seriously wounded another in a drone strike in Syria.

Tribune News Service

US military kills Islamic State leader in Syria airstrike

Maher al-Agal, said to be responsible for developing networks outside Iraq and Syria, was killed in a drone strike

The Guardian - US

Pentagon: US kills IS group leader in Syria in drone strike

The Pentagon says it has killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike

The Independent UK

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Paris attackers’ sentence stands after Abdeslam and 19 accused turn down right to appeal

The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence for the killings, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday. Nor have the other 19 accused. The head of one of the victims' associations has expressed his…

Radio France Internationale

Court hears Lisa Smith was 'extremely vulnerable' and was 'treated like a servant' as barrister argues for suspended sentence

Ex-Defence Forces member Lisa Smith, 40, was found guilty of membership of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group, and was acquitted of a separate charge of financing terrorism, after a nine-week trial at Dublin’s non-jury Special Criminal Court

Irish Mirror

Iraq: Mosul's long road to recovery, five years after IS group's defeat

On July 10, 2017, Iraq's second-largest city was wrested back from the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group after two years under its rule of terror. But the devastating battle left much of the city in ruins, especially in the historic centre.

France 24

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack in Congo -statement

Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on Thursday that targetted the town of Lume in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the group's news agency said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Saturday.

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Niger: the west’s bulwark against jihadis and Russian influence in Africa

The country is emerging as a critical ally in a neighbourhood of failing states

Financial Times

Nigeria recaptures 27 inmates after jail attack claimed by Islamic State

Nigeria's security forces on Thursday recaptured 27 inmates who fled from a prison in the capital in Abuja following an attack claimed by Islamic State, the correctional service said.

Reuters

Extremists claim responsibility for Nigerian prison attack

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a prison attack in Nigeria’s capital which freed nearly 900 inmates including 60 of its members

The Independent UK

France changes tack, repatriates 35 children and their mothers from Syria

France has repatriated 35 French children and 16 mothers – family members of suspected jihadists who joined the Islamic State armed group before it was ousted in 2019. This is the country's largest repatriation of children since the fall of Islamic State, with the decision to bring back the mothers…

Radio France Internationale

France repatriates 51 citizens from IS group camps in Syria

French authorities on Tuesday repatriated 51 women and children from the former Islamic State group-controlled areas in Syria, according to a statement from the national counterterrorism prosecutor’s office.

France 24

ISIS Beatle could be back on UK streets in days after being released from Turkish jail

Aine Davis - known as Jihadi Paul - is due to be deported from Istanbul next Saturday after serving seven-and-a-half years for terrorism offences and will soon be back in the UK

Daily Mirror

EU's Takuba force quits junta-controlled Mali

The French-led Takuba task force of EU special forces has officially ceased operating in Mali, France announced Friday, ending an anti-jihadist effort launched in March 2020 that soured after two military coups overthrew the civilian government.

France 24

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'ISIS Beatle' Aine Davis 'to be deported to UK' years after execution squad killed Brit

Londoner Aine Davis, an alleged member of a Islamic State execution squad named after the iconic rock band, will reportedly be sent back to the UK in the coming weeks

Evening Standard

‘Jihadi Paul’ Aine Davis to be deported back to UK on release from Turkish prison

Turkish sources said they didn’t want their country to become a “dumping ground” for Western extremists

Daily Record

Daughter of murdered Scots aid worker David Haines meets killers face to face

Bethany Haines met with one of the members of the Islamic State terror cell known as 'the Beatles' who executed her father.

The Guardian - UK

‘Blood money’: Europe’s secretive trade in Syrian phosphates

Hidden imports provide economic lifeline to Assad and funds for a Russian oligarch under EU sanctions

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How French court ruled in Paris Islamist attacks trial

A French court announced guilty verdicts on Wednesday for all 20 men tried for the Nov. 13, 2015 Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed by Islamist militants.

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20 men are convicted in the 2015 Paris terror attacks; one sentenced to life in prison

The deadliest peacetime attacks in French history killed 130 people. Chief suspect Salah Abdeslam was found guilty of murder and attempted murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise.

Radio France Internationale

Sole surviving member of Paris attacks terror squad Abdeslam sentenced to whole-life prison term

The sole surviving member of an Islamic State terror cell that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015 was handed a whole-life sentence by a French court on Wednesday, the toughest punishment possible.

Wales Online

Lone surviving attacker from 2015 France terror atrocities jailed for life without parole

Nineteen other men have been convicted of their involvement

The Independent UK

Bataclan terror attack: Isis bomber guilty of mass murder over 2015 Paris blast

He has been sentenced to life in prison without parole – a punishment handed out just four times in French history

The Guardian - UK

Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam found guilty of murder and jailed for life

Abdeslam was only survivor of 10-man terrorist unit that struck in city, killing 130 people, in 2015

The Independent UK

20 suspects in Paris terrorist attacks trial: Who they are

A total of 20 men are facing a verdict Wednesday over the 2015 Paris attacks by Islamic State extremists on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium

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