Middle east events and news

ISIS Claims Killing Of 80 People Including Top Intelligence Official In Attack On Election Rally In Pakistan
On July 13, 2018, the Islamic State (ISIS) released a statement claiming that one of its fighters had detonated his suicide vest at an election rally in the city of Mastung in Baluchistan, Pakistan, and killed 80 people including Mir Siraj Khan, the “intelligence director in Baluchistan.
Video Shows Fighters In ISIS’s New Hauran Province Swearing Allegiance To Al-Baghdadi
On July 15, 2018, an Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated media outlet released a six-minute video showing a group of Jaysh Khalid bin Al-Walid (JKBW) fighters renewing their bay’a (“pledge of allegiance”) to ISIS caliph Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
ISIS Attack On Kabul Government Ministry Kills And Injures More Than 60, Including French Nationals
On July 15, 2018, the Islamic State (ISIS) announced that one of its fighters had carried out a suicide attack on the Ministry of Rural Development in Kabul, resulting in the deaths and injury of more than 60 people (by memri org).