Uzbek police have questioned dozens of people in an attempt to discover who hung the black flag of the Islamic State militant group from a bridge in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.

The Islamic State (IS) group is planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan in the spring, an officer with Uzbekistan's domestic intelligence agency, the National Security Service (SNB ...

File Photo: An Islamic State Fighter holds the group's flag. (Reuters) Moscow: Uzbek fighters from an Al Qaeda-linked militant organisation have thrown their support behind the jihadist Islamic ...

Torture and death for Uzbek Muslims in jail. After 2005 revolt against President Karimov’s iron-fisted rule, crackdown against Muslims continues unabated.

It was a year after the Uzbek government released official international notice on Jovokhir Attoev that the United States realized ... An ISIS fighter poses in front of an Islamic State flag ...

In early August, news broke that Usmon Ghazi, the current leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), had pledged the Central Asian militant group's allegiance to Islamic State (IS). Ghazi had ...

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is on the offensive against Kabul government. Skip to Main Content. ... Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the black-and-white Islamic State flag behind them. ...

It was launched in 2003 by the most prominent Islamic scholar of independent Uzbekistan, the late Sheikh Muhammad Sadiq Muhmmad Yusuf; since his death in 2015 the site has been run by his followers.

The Islamic State terrorist group deliberately designed its flag to co-opt long-existing Islamic symbology. The script on the flag reads: “There is no God but Allah; Muhammad is Allah’s ...

Muslim groups, religious leaders and experts have voiced alarm at the federal government’s push to ban a flag associated with Islamic State, saying it risks criminalising legitimate displays of ...

Australian Muslim organisations and leaders have hit out at a government push to ban the IS flag, amid fears legitimate displays of imagery could be criminalised.