Isil Financial News

Shahnawaz and has been arrested by Delhi Police’s Special Cell, just days after NIA announced a reward of ₹3 lakh on him. After a massive search operation, the cops arrested three suspected Islamic State (IS) terrorists who were wanted by the NIA. Last month, the NIA released pictures of four terror suspects, including that of Shahnawaz, wanted in the Pune ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) module case and declared a reward money of ₹3 lakh each for credible information on them leading to their arrest.

Pakistan: Second suicide bombing reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, death toll surges to 57 There was no immediate information on the assailants. Kurdish and far-left militant groups as well as the Islamic State group have carried out deadly attacks throughout the country in the past. (Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channel. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) Erdogan was set to speak during the opening of this parliamentary session, which must validate Sweden's entry into the NATO alliance.

Also read: Libya flood updates: Death toll in Derna rises to over 11,000. 10 points UN World Meteorological Organization said many deaths could have been avoided if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly in the war-scarred country. However, hydrologist Abdul Wanis Ashour who researched the system of dams protecting Derna 17 years ago, found several problems in the eastern port town.

Binance, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange, has been instrumental in aiding the arrest of key members of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), an affiliate of the global terrorist network ISIS. The operation was a joint effort between Binance, the Financial Monitoring Department under the National Bank of Tajikistan, and blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs.

our Briefing explains, these shifts begin a new chapter in the Middle East marked by fresh opportunities and new dangers. The region’s leaders are testing ideas that have caught on in much of the world, including embracing autocratic pragmatism as a substitute for democracy, and multipolar diplomacy instead of the post-1945 American-led order. The Middle East is also a place where threats that will menace the world in the 2030s may play out early, including nuclear proliferation, extreme weather and even greater inequality, as weak countries fall further behind.

Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a «proscribed» organisation under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State and al-Qaeda, a report in the Daily Mail said. «Wagner is a violent and destructive organisation which has acted as a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia overseas,» the newspaper quoted Braverman as saying. «While Putin's regime decides what to do with the monster it created, Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals.» Under the Terrorism Act 2000 the home secretary has the power to proscribe an organisation if they believe it is involved in terrorism. A proscription order makes it a criminal offence to support the group. «They are terrorists, plain and simple — and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law,» a BBC report added, quoting the minister. «Wagner has been involved in looting, torture and barbarous murders,» Braverman added in the Daily Mail. The group's operations in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa «are a threat to global security,» she said. «That is why we are proscribing this terrorist organisation and continuing to aid Ukraine wherever we can in its fight against Russia.» Draft measures to ban the Wagner Group under the act will be laid in Parliament on Wednesday, the reports said. In July, Britain announced sanctions against 13 individuals and businesses it said had links to the Russian group in Africa, accusing it of crimes there including killings and torture. The people and entities targeted — which are no longer able to deal with UK citizens, companies and banks, and have any UK assets

Prigozhin last week, the Kremlin's spokesperson said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters during his daily conference call, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that «different versions» of what happened exist and «are being considered» by Russian investigators, including, «let's put this way, deliberate wrongdoing.» A business jet carrying Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the his top lieutenants crashed halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg a week ago, killing all seven passengers and three crew members. The Interstate Aviation Committee, the Moscow-headquartered body that oversees civil aviation in most former Soviet republics, said in an online statement Wednesday that it was not currently investigating the crash, although the agency has an accident investigation division.

Eleven labourers were killed in a bomb attack in Northwestern Pakistan, caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said on Sunday in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The device exploded after being attached to a truck carrying the workers to a construction project in Waziristan, near the Afghan border. "They were working at an army post that is under construction ...

Islamist extremist groups have severely dented China's efforts to access the rich mineral resources in Pakistan and Afghanistan. These minerals are crucial to fuel China's global ambitions to become a superpower, replacing the US. Baloch separatists view China as a neo-colonial power that is hand in glove with Pakistan's elite, including the army, to exploit the province's rich resources to the exclusion of locals.

IRNA, “Fars Deputy Governor Esmail Ghezel Sofla described the attacker as a Takfiri element and said the person had been arrested and is being interrogated by judicial authorities." In Iran, the term ‘takfiri’ is referred to jihadists or proponents of radical Sunni Islam. Early media reports said that the attacker had opened fire at people after being confronted by security guards at the gates of the shrine. The wounded were transferred to medical centres and are undergoing treatment, said the media reports.

DUBAI (Reuters) -An attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Iran's southern city of Shiraz killed at least one person on Sunday, a local official told state TV, adding that one person had been arrested.

ABUJA (Reuters) -West Africa's ECOWAS bloc aims to send a parliamentary committee to Niger to meet coup leaders who took power last month and have so far resisted diplomatic pressure to restore civilian rule, a parliament spokesperson said on Saturday.

attack by Islamic State group jihadists on Syrian government forces in the war-torn country's east has killed 33 soldiers, a monitor said Saturday, revising an earlier toll of 26 deaths. The shooting Thursday evening on an army bus was the extremist group's deadliest attack on government forces this year, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Despite losing their last piece of territory in Syria in 2019, IS has maintained hideouts in the vast Syrian desert from which it has carried out ambushes and hit-and-run attacks.

NAIROBI—American military commanders were dismayed last month when a clique of top army officers seized power in Niger, the U.S.’s main ally in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa. What stung perhaps most sharply were televised images of one particular man, Brig. Gen.

NIA) on Saturday said it has arrested the sixth accused in connection with the IS Maharashtra module case related to IS' conspiracy to disrupt peace in the country. The accused was identified as Aakif Ateeque Nachan. The NIA said that he was arrested for his involvement in the fabrication and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for commission of terrorist acts and arranging a hideout for two other terror operatives.

By Edward McAllister

UN Security Council report, the TTP may be looking to unite with Al Qaeda to form a single entity that would house all militant organisations active in South Asia. Although cross-border militancy persists, Pakistan has long held Afghanistan responsible for failing to uphold its promise to ensure that its soil was not utilised for terrorism in Islamabad.

Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a bombing attack that has killed dozens in Pakistan, in a statement issued on the jihadists' news arm Amaq. «A suicide attacker from the Islamic State… detonated his explosive jacket in the middle of a crowd» in northwestern Pakistani town of Khar, the statement said.

Pakistan held funerals on Monday for victims of a massive suicide bombing that targeted a rally of a pro-Taliban cleric the previous day as the death toll climbed to at least 45 and the government vowed to hunt down those behind the attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing, which also wounded nearly 200 people. Police said their initial investigation suggests the Islamic State group's regional affiliate could be behind the attack.

Al-Qaeda is shaping its Indian subcontinent offshoot to spread its operations to Jammu and Kashmir, as well as to Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Al-Qaida core in Afghanistan remains stable at 30-60 members, while the number of Al-Qaeda fighters in that country is estimated to be 400, reaching 2,000 with family members and supporters included, according to the report prepared by the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions & Associated Committee that deals with the ISIS and Al Qaeda. Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS, which is not listed by the UN) has about 200 fighters, with Osama Mehmood being the emir, according to the report.

Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where an explosion at a gathering of an Islamic political party resulted in the loss of at least 40 lives, with many others sustaining injuries. The blast struck during the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) workers' convention in Khar, Bajaur, as reported by Geo News, with the police confirming the casualties. The injured individuals have been promptly transported to a nearby hospital, and law enforcement agencies have taken measures to cordon off the affected area.