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Quick Read: Hundreds of Islamic State militants are slipping back into Iraq. Their fight isn’t over.

News TeamJuly 24, 2019

QAIM, Iraq — Islamic State militants who escaped the defeat of their caliphate in Syria earlier this year have been slipping across the border into Iraq, bolste...

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The latest terrorism news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Europe safer since Islamic State defeat but threat endures, Europol says

News TeamJune 28, 2019

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europeans were safer from jihadist attacks last year than at any point since Islamic State set up its caliphate in 2014, but a number of fo...

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Quick Read: Car Bomb Targets Former IS Stronghold in Syria

News TeamJune 27, 2019

A powerful explosion on Wednesday rocked a town in northeast Syria, local sources told VOA. The car bomb attack, which took place on a main street near the center of Tabqa, wounded at least two security personnel and one civilian, the sources said...

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The latest news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Islamic State group: Nicaragua arrests four suspected members

News TeamJune 27, 2019

Four men with suspected ties to the Islamic State (IS) group were arrested in Nicaragua after crossing illegally from Costa Rica, officials say. The identities ...

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The latest abduction, kidnap, ransom and extortion news from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Bodies of Nine Civilians Abducted and Killed by Islamic State Found in Iraq, Army Sources Say

News TeamJune 7, 2019

Iraqi forces found the bodies of nine civilians abducted and killed by Islamic State militants in an area near the border with Syria, military sources said on S...

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Quick Read: Deadly shooting shakes Lebanese city, culprit a ‘lone wolf’

News TeamJune 5, 2019

Military police and forensics in white overalls deployed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Tuesday after a lone gunman went on an overnight shooting spree, killing four security personnel before blowing himself up in an apartment in a resid...

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Quick Read: UN: Syrian fighters burning vital farmland is ‘weapon of war’

News TeamJune 5, 2019

Thousands of hectares of vital crops and farmland have been set on fire by fighters in northwest Syria in a campaign that has turned food supplies into a "weapo...

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Quick Read: Islamist rebels kill 13 civilians in east Congo’s Ebola zone

News TeamJune 5, 2019

GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Thirteen Congolese civilians were killed in the country’s eastern Ebola zone in an attack by a group thought to be linked to Islamic Sta...

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Quick Read: ISIS ‘plotting to massacre Brits in Med hotels in Sri Lanka-style attacks’

News TeamJune 3, 2019

ISIS is planning Sri Lanka-style attacks on Brit holidaymakers in the Mediterranean, it has been reported. The jihadis have been driven from their final stronghold in Syria but they have been linked to the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that kill...

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Quick Read: Congo forces kill 26 ADF rebels while repelling attack: army

News TeamMay 31, 2019

GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Congolese forces killed 26 rebels from the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group believed to be linked to Islamic State, whil...

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Quick Read: IS Threatens ‘Hot Summer’ by Scorching Iraq, Syria Farmlands

News TeamMay 29, 2019

The Islamic State in its al-Naba newspaper claimed responsibility for setting fire to hundreds of acres of agricultural land across Iraq and Syria, encouraging ...

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Quick Read: Two guards killed and four kidnapped in suspected Islamic State attack outside Libyan oilfield

News TeamMay 23, 2019

BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Two guards were killed and four others were kidnapped early on Saturday in a suspected Islamic State attack targeting Libya’s Zella oilfield, a security source said.... Read the full article at the publisher's site: https://uk...

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Quick Read: IS West Africa Claims Killing, Execution of 29 Nigerian Soldiers

News TeamMay 23, 2019

Islamic State's West Africa branch claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a raid in Nigeria two days earlier in which it said 20 soldiers had been killed, and ...

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Quick Read: 24 in Morocco face trial in Nordic hikers’ slayings

News TeamMay 17, 2019

Twenty-four people went on trial Thursday in Morocco on terrorism charges for the brutal slaying of two Scandinavian women hikers that was then shared on social...

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Quick Read: Three killed in suspected Islamic State attack on southern Libya: official

News TeamMay 9, 2019

BENGHAZI, Libya/GENEVA (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Thursday in a suspected hit-and-run attack by Islamic State militants on a town in southern Libya, residents and a military official said, the second such attack within days.... Read the ...

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Quick Read: Fears Grow Islamic State’s Foreign Fighters Ready to Carry On

News TeamMay 8, 2019

This is part one of a four-part series. WASHINGTON — Even as the Islamic State’s caliphate was clinging to life with its last defenders cornered in a small town...

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The latest news on India from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: South Asian security experts downplay Islamic State threat

News TeamMay 2, 2019

Indian and Bangladeshi officials and security experts largely dismissed a fresh threat of violence from an Islamic State-aligned media group, insisting that saf...

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Quick Read: France says Islamic State Baghdadi video should be treated with caution

News TeamMay 1, 2019

PARIS (Reuters) - Intelligence services are checking the authenticity of a video which Islamic State said showed its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but if real it would reinforce that fact that the group is still active, France’s defense minister said ...

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The latest news on journalists and journalism from Safe Travels Magazine, offering travellers and travel safety professionals information, news, advice and insights to help keep travellers safe.

Quick Read: Fate of missing Lebanese cameraman remains unknown

News TeamApril 24, 2019

The family of a Lebanese cameraman who has gone missing in war-torn Syria are waiting for any information about his fate.... Read the full article at the publis...

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Quick Read: New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi, kidnapped in Syria, may be alive, Red Cross says

News TeamApril 15, 2019

Louisa Akavi, 62, and two Syrian colleagues have been held hostage for longer than anyone in the 156-year history of the international aid organisation, and the...

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Quick Read: Four police, one civilian killed in bomb attack in North Sinai: sources

News TeamApril 10, 2019

CAIRO (Reuters) - Five people including four police personnel were killed on Tuesday when a suspected militant blew himself up near a market in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, three security sources said.... Read the full article at the publis...

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Quick Read: US foils alleged plot to drive stolen truck into pedestrians: DOJ

News TeamApril 9, 2019

The United States Justice Department said on Monday it had arrested a Maryland man who allegedly plotted to drive a stolen U-Haul truck into pedestrians on the ...

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Quick Read: Hundreds of Islamic State militants are slipping back into Iraq. Their fight isn’t over.

Quick Read: Europe safer since Islamic State defeat but threat endures, Europol says

Quick Read: Car Bomb Targets Former IS Stronghold in Syria

Quick Read: Islamic State group: Nicaragua arrests four suspected members

Quick Read: Bodies of Nine Civilians Abducted and Killed by Islamic State Found in Iraq, Army Sources Say

Quick Read: Deadly shooting shakes Lebanese city, culprit a ‘lone wolf’

Quick Read: UN: Syrian fighters burning vital farmland is ‘weapon of war’

Quick Read: Islamist rebels kill 13 civilians in east Congo’s Ebola zone

Quick Read: ISIS ‘plotting to massacre Brits in Med hotels in Sri Lanka-style attacks’

Quick Read: Congo forces kill 26 ADF rebels while repelling attack: army

Quick Read: IS Threatens ‘Hot Summer’ by Scorching Iraq, Syria Farmlands

Quick Read: Two guards killed and four kidnapped in suspected Islamic State attack outside Libyan oilfield

Quick Read: IS West Africa Claims Killing, Execution of 29 Nigerian Soldiers

Quick Read: 24 in Morocco face trial in Nordic hikers’ slayings

Quick Read: Three killed in suspected Islamic State attack on southern Libya: official

Quick Read: Fears Grow Islamic State’s Foreign Fighters Ready to Carry On

Quick Read: South Asian security experts downplay Islamic State threat

Quick Read: France says Islamic State Baghdadi video should be treated with caution

Quick Read: Fate of missing Lebanese cameraman remains unknown

Quick Read: New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi, kidnapped in Syria, may be alive, Red Cross says

Quick Read: Four police, one civilian killed in bomb attack in North Sinai: sources

Quick Read: US foils alleged plot to drive stolen truck into pedestrians: DOJ

Ghana: Two Canadian women abducted on Monday in Kumasi, Uber driver detained

Travel Advice: State Department urges people to ‘reconsider travel’ to Burkina Faso due to terrorism, crime, and kidnapping

Travel Advice: FCO warns of terror threats against Western targets in Afghanistan, especially in Kabul

Travel Advice: State Dept warns militants in Afghanistan plan vehicle-borne bombings against American targets

Travel Advice: FCO warns visitors to Jamaica as states of emergency extended due to shootings

Travel Advice: Canadian Government updates travel warning regarding crime threat to visitors in Vietnam