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By Srijit Das
BOOM Live
Russian officials persisted in saying Ukraine and the West had a role in last week's deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group. Without offering any evidence, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, followed similar allegations by President Vladimir Putin, linked the attack to Ukraine even as he acknowledged that the suspects arrested were “radical Islamists.” The IS affiliate claimed it carried out the attack, and US intelligence said it had information c...
Euronews (English)
Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall, killing at least 130 people and wounding more than 180. The men - who showed signs of severe beatings - were marched handcuffed and bent double into a court in the Russian capital on Sunday. One appeared to be barely conscious during the hearing. All were charged with terrorism, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment. All pleaded guilty. The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Crocus City Hall on Friday - a claim corroborated by US intelligence. Russian officials have alleged - withou...
Euronews (English)
Editor's Note: This story contains descriptions of graphic scenes. The Islamic State on March 23 released footage of the March 22 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in a Moscow suburb. The video was released through the Amaq News Agency, which is affiliated with the terrorist group. Several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a Moscow suburb, on the evening of March 22, killing at least 137 people and injuring at least 140, according to the latest updates by the Russian authorities. The ISIS footage shows the gunmen recording themselves as they pursue people through the l...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Editor's Note: This story contains descriptions of graphic scenes. The Islamic State on March 23 released footage of the March 22 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in a Moscow suburb. The video was released through the Amaq News Agency, which is affiliated with the terrorist group. Several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a Moscow suburb, on the evening of March 22, killing at least 137 people and injuring at least 140, according to the latest updates by the Russian authorities. The ISIS footage shows the gunmen recording themselves as they pursue people through the l...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Editor's Note: This story contains descriptions of graphic scenes. The Islamic State on March 23 released footage of the March 22 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in a Moscow suburb. The video was released through the Amaq News Agency, which is affiliated with the terrorist group. Several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a Moscow suburb, on the evening of March 22, killing at least 137 people and injuring at least 140, according to the latest updates by the Russian authorities. The ISIS footage shows the gunmen recording themselves as they pursue people through the l...
Kyiv Independent
Two men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on the Swedish parliament building in Stockholm were arrested by German police on Tuesday. One of the men, identified as Ibrahim M.G., is said to have joined the Islamic State offshoot Khorasan Province, a group based origins in Afghanistan and eastern parts of Iran. The other man has been named as Ramin N. German investigators say the group commissioned Ibrahim to carry out an attack in the summer of 2023 in response to protests in Sweden where demonstrators burned copies of the Quran. The two men are said to have made plans for an assault on S...
Euronews (English)
By Archis Chowdhury A video showing injured woman being rescued from a camp by military personnel is viral on the internet as a footage of Hindu women from India and Bangladesh being held as sex slaves by the Islamic State (ISIS). The video has been purportedly shared as evidence of the claim made in film "The Kerala Story" of Hindu women being abducted from India into sex-slavery by ISIS. BOOM found these claims to be false; according to our fact-check the video shows Yezidi women being rescued from an ISIS camp in Syria by the Women's Protection Unit of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Septem...
BOOM Live
By Hazel Gandhi A video of a street play from Iraq is being shared online with a false claim that it shows a sex slave auction organised by terrorist group ISIS. BOOM found that the video was staged for social awareness, and was part of an art performance shot in Erbil, Iraq. The video shows a man approaching women dressed in burqas, removing their niqabs to see their faces and putting them back after. The video is being shared with the claim that the women are being enslaved, and the only people allowed to see their faces is their owner. One caption on Twitter reads, "This is sex slave market...
BOOM Live
By Srijit Das An old photo of a group of youngsters sporting terror organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) T-shirts in Tamil Nadu has been revived as Kerala, amidst the ongoing controversy surrounding the film The Kerala Story. Directed by Sudipto Sen, 'The Kerala Story' makers had initially claimed that the film showcases stories of 32,000 Hindu and Christian women from Kerala who have been trafficked to Syria and Yemen and then recruited by terror outfits such as ISIS. BOOM found that the 32,000 figure as claimed by the makers is grossly exaggerated and lacks data-based evidence...
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