Iraq on Saturday denied claims made by Ankara that its soldiers on a controversial base near the northern city of Mosul killed 18 jihadists after coming under attack.
The Islamic State group claimed Friday to have staged an attack on an Israeli tourist bus in Cairo a day earlier which officials described as mere vandalism that caused no casualties.
French anti-terror investigators were seeking to identify a man shot dead while trying to storm a Paris police station brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest.
US authorities said two people with ties to the Islamic State group are due in court in California and Texas, including a refugee from Syria accused of returning there to fight alongside IS.
At least 47 people were killed on Thursday when Libya's worst bomb attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi hit a police training centre as hundreds of recruits gathered for a morning meeting.
Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the US-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday.
Investigations into the identity of an English-speaking man who featured in an Islamic State (IS) group video are focusing on a Briton, Siddhartha Dhar, the BBC reported.
Authorities in Yemen's southern city of Aden imposed a curfew on Monday after violence blamed on suspected jihadists killed at least 22 people, pro-government media and security sources said.
Britain is examining an Islamic State video showing a young boy in military fatigues and an older masked militant who both spoke with British accents.
Authorities in Yemen's southern city of Aden imposed a curfew after violence blamed on suspected jihadists killed at least 17 people, pro-government media and security sources said.
Attacks by five suicide bombers on an Iraqi military base north of Baghdad killed at least 15 members of the security forces and wounded 22 others, security sources said.
A soldier and an elderly Muslim man were slightly injured when a man drove his car at troops protecting a mosque in Valence in southern France.
