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Terrorist who shared beheading videos and car bomb guide to be freed from jail

The Parole Board has decided Mohammed Khilji, who was sentenced to five years in 2018, is suitable for release

The Independent UK

Islamic State names new leader, confirming US raid killed predecessor

Audio message names Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as new leader in first admission of former head’s death

The Guardian - AU

Islamic State confirms death of leader and names new chief

The group announces Abu Al-Hassan al-hashemi al-Quraishi as its new leader following the violent death of its former leader during a US special forces raid in February.

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ISIS names new chief after confirming death of former leader in audio clip

In a new audio statement, ISIS confirmed the death of Abu Ibrahim Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi and former spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi, before naming its new leader

Daily Mirror

Islamic state confirms death of its leader, names new chief

Islamic State confirmed on Thursday the death of its leader Abu Ibrahim Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi and its spokesperson Abu Hamza Al-Quraishi, and announced Abu Al-Hassan Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi as its new chief.

Reuters

Mosul's Old City Rises from Rubble in War-scarred Iraq

Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists. Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the ISIS group seized…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Terror in Peshawar: on Shia mosque attack

Islamist terrorists are seeking to set off a Sunni-Shia sectarian war in Af-Pak region

The Hindu

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Honours for soldiers who went way beyond the call of duty

Fifteen awards to soldiers who served in Iraq, Afghanistan as well as Australian floods and pandemic

The Canberra Times

Pakistan vows to arrest masterminds of IS mosque attack

Officials in Pakistan are vowing to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack claimed by an Islamic State affiliate

The Independent UK

Swedish woman jailed for war crimes over son becoming child soldier

A Swedish court found a Swedish woman guilty of war crimes for failing to prevent her 12-year-old son from becoming a child soldier in Syria, where he was killed in the civil war.

Reuters

Ericsson broke DoJ deal over Iraq corruption claims, say US prosecutors

Telecoms group’s admission comes days after revelations about alleged bribes given to Islamic State

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: leaked files show how Ericsson allegedly helped bribe Islamic State

Leak also found the telecoms giant had put its contractors at risk and allowed them to be kidnapped by the militants

The Guardian - UK

‘A symbol of new beginning’: Mosul’s university library reopens

The institution suffered a devastating attack by Islamic State in 2014. Eight years on, an international effort has seen it reopen as ‘a lighthouse of knowledge’

The Guardian - UK

Canada responds to claims it's not helping citizens in Syria

A Canadian government spokesman says officials are working with Syrian Kurdish authorities and international organizations to gather information and help Canadian citizens detained in Syria

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The Independent UK

Lebanese authorities say they have foiled 3 militant attacks

Lebanon's interior minister says authorities have thwarted attempts by members of the Islamic State group to carry out three attacks near the capital Beirut that would have inflicted a large number of civilian casualties

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson’s Russia sanctions slammed by MPs as not tough enough

Boris Johnson’s sanctions against Russia have been slammed as not tough enough by MPs.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson warned UK sanctions against Russia are feeble and kleptocrats will ‘not be caught’

Senior Tories demand tougher action now – while one of Vladimir Putin’s most high-profile enemies brands measures ‘tepid’

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson under pressure from Tories and opposition MPs to go further on Russia sanctions – as it happened

PM unveils sanctions on five Russian banks and three individuals

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The Independent UK

Poverty, fear drive exodus from Syria's one-time IS capital

Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State group, is now free but many of its residents are fighting to leave

The Conversation

Islamic State: death of leader is big step towards becoming a different kind of terrorist organisation

A “proto-state”, a “socio-political movement, the ”beast“ – all names given to a single group that, at its height, seemed to embody the west’s worst nightmare.

The Guardian - UK

France announces military withdrawal from Mali after nine years

Fears of jihadist push in Gulf of Guinea after Macron and allies pull out

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Crisis looms in Syria camps, jails holding foreign nationals

A deadly prison attack last month sharpened the focus on the tens of thousands of foreign nationals held in camps and detention centers in northeastern Syria — many of them affiliated with the Islamic State group

France 24

Macron announces French troop withdrawal from Mali

In a joint announcement from the Élysée Palace on Thursday, France and allied nations announced that they were withdrawing troops from Mali due to a breakdown in relations with the ruling junta after nine years of fighting a jihadist insurgency. Read FRANCE 24's live coverage of the day’s events as…

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