The Arabic name of the new branch is 'Wilayah of Hind' (India Province), the dreaded terror outfit, (also known as ISIS and ISIL), said through its Amaq News Agency.
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has appeared for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group's propaganda arm.
The NIA said in a statement that it carried out the searches at the houses of three suspects in Kerala as part of its investigation into the ISIS Kasaragod module case.
In a statement published early Sunday through its propaganda 'Amaq' news agency, the ISIS said that it gave their noms du guerre as Abu Hammad, Abu Sufyan and Abu al-Qa’qa.
The security forces continue their hunt for members of the local terror group National Thowheeth Jamath (NTJ) which was behind the deadly Easter Sunday bombings.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Easter terror attacks on three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels, that claimed 253 lives, but the government has blamed a local Islamist extremist group, National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ) for the bombings.
Shamima Begum, 15, was one of three British schoolgirls who ran away from their homes in the UK in 2015 to be jihadi brides, causing much concern in the country on the impact of online radicalisation, especially among the youth.
Ten years, is certainly long enough, if not to change the world of diplomacy then at least to introduce a set of new actors and fundamentally new challenges for inertia-bound foreign policy wonks to grapple with.
