Top Islamic State group commander Omar al-Shishani has been "clinically dead" for several days after a US air strike in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Sunday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed on Saturday to retaliate against the Islamic State group after it launched a chemical attack on a town near Kirkuk.
An American has been stabbed and wounded in Kuwait and the assailant arrested, the US embassy said, urging nationals to remain alert to the threat of attack by extremists.
Tunisian security forces killed seven "terrorists" overnight near Ben Guerdane after a deadly jihadist attack on the town near the border with Libya, the authorities said on Wednesday.
The Islamic State group is trying to establish a stronghold in the violence-racked southern Philippines, the head of the nation's biggest Muslim rebel organisation warned Monday.
Yemeni authorities have blamed the Islamic State group for an attack on a care home run by missionaries that killed 16 people and was condemned by Pope Francis as "diabolical".
A group of Syrian rebel fighters late Friday seized control of a crossing on the Iraqi border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya were freed on Friday in a raid on Islamic State group hideouts in a city near the capital, officials in Libya and Rome said.
German police on Thursday arrested a doctor suspected of having recruited a man of limited mental capacity to fight for the Islamic State organisation in Iraq.
Gulf countries declared Lebanon's Hezbollah a "terrorist" group, in the latest regional move against the Shia organisation fighting in support of Syria's regime.
Afghan security forces killed a team of suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least six people were wounded, officials said.
A senior Iraqi army officer and seven others were killed when Islamic State militants attacked a military headquarters near Haditha.
