Russia's envoy to the UN warned long-term ally President Bashar al-Assad over his vow to retake all of Syria, saying he faced dire consequences if he did not comply with Moscow over the peace process.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 38 civilians were killed in air strikes carried out by a US-led coalition in Hasaka province in northeast Syria in the past two days.
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday not to let the Islamic State build a base in Libya, saying the United State would take action where there was a "clear target."
A United Arab Emirates court sentenced four people to death in absentia for joining the Islamic State militant group, the UAE state news agency WAM reported.
The United Arab Emirates wants to deploy commandos to help train forces fighting Islamic State jihadists and will resume its contribution to the US-led air campaign, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said.
CIA director John Brennan has said that Islamic State fighters have used chemical weapons and have the capability to make small quantities of chlorine and mustard gas, CBS News reported Thursday.
The risk of Iraq's largest dam collapsing and unleashing a huge wave onto Mosul is affecting plans to retake the city from jihadists, an adviser to the prime minister's office said.
Turkish security forces seized explosives and four suicide vests in the baggage of a group of suspects stopped at the border with Syria, the Turkish army said.
The global threat posed by the Islamic State group is still rising but US-based homegrown extremists pose the biggest danger to the homeland, Washington's top spy said Tuesday.
The United Arab Emirates said it was ready to send ground troops to Syria as part of an international coalition to fight against Islamic State.
Islamic State militants have slipped into Europe disguised as refugees, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said on Friday, a day after security forces thwarted a potential IS attack in Berlin.
German police arrested two Algerians suspected of links to the Islamic State group and hunted two others after raids targeting several sites including refugee shelters where some of the suspects lived.
