Militant in a sentence

Air strikes also hit a weapons storage facility, and an operational command centre used by the Islamic Jihad militant group, it added.

A little known militant group that identified itself as Ansar-ul-Islam claimed responsibility, saying it was their first attack, according to a statement sent to a Reuters reporter.

An army spokesman said the attack during a Sunday service was likely carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan militant group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

A Niger Delta militant group, The Force of Egbesu, has hailed President Bola Tinubu on his emergence as President of Nigeria at the 2023 general elections.

Asian shares mostly rose Thursday as investors awaited the release of U.S. consumer price index numbers and kept a cautious watch over the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Asif also said that the banned militant group was equipped with advanced weapons, such as night vision goggles left behind by the American forces when they withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021.

At Al-Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital, doctors said patients and people taking shelter were stranded in horrific conditions in the facility, which Israel says sits atop an underground Hamas command base -- a charge denied by the militant group.

At least two troops and one militant were killed.

A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect on Saturday night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021.

At the event, Ms. Haley called for Israel to wipe out Hamas, a militant group backed by Iran.

Both the Government and Labour have been united on the right of Israel to defend itself in the wake of the assault by the Palestinian militant group.

But it became a major focus of the Israeli ground offensive, with Israel claiming that Hamas was running a command centre below the facility despite repeated denials from hospital officials and the Palestinian militant group.

Charity worker Leigh Humpage, who used to live in and is an Israeli citizen as well as British, was visiting friends in Raanana, a small city in the centre of the country, when Palestinian militant group launched an attack.

China has a warm relationship with Iran, where the clerical leadership supports both Hamas and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group that could open a second front against Israel.

Damascus-based Islamic Jihad's chief Ziyad al Nakhla received a call from senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati in which the latter said he supported the "resistance of the Palestinian people, a statement by the Iranian-backed militant group said.

Early on Thursday, the Israeli military carried out strikes against the Islamic Jihad militant group and said a senior commander in charge of the group’s rocket launching force.

Egypt, a longtime mediator in Gaza, secured the agreement of both Israel and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad to its latest ceasefire proposal, an Egyptian security official said.

Frequent clashes between these three communities have resulted in proliferation of armed militant factions among these ethnic groups.

Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza, launched a large-scale surprise attack against Israeli civilian communities on Saturday.

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, sent fighters across the border to Israel and fired thousands of rockets in an unprecedented attack on Saturday, which also saw a music festival targeted.