Australian police said they had arrested two people, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of raising funds to support operations of the Islamic State militant group.
At least 26 pro-government fighters were killed battling the Islamic State group near Palmyra on Monday as Damascus stepped up a bid to recapture the ancient city, a monitoring group said.
French President Francois Hollande on Monday was set to hold his first formal meeting with victims of the November 13 attacks in Paris, three days after Belgian police captured key suspect Saleh Abdeslam.
A Turkish jihadist with links to the Islamic State carried out the suicide bombing that killed four foreigners on a major shopping street in Istanbul, Interior Minister Efken Ala said Sunday.
Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam woke up behind bars on Sunday after spending his first night in jail on charges of "terrorist murder" for his role in orchestrating the worst-ever terror asssault on French soil.
A wave of air strikes killed at least 39 civilians on Saturday in Raqqa, the main stronghold of the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, a monitoring group said.
Police found fingerprints of Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam in a Brussels apartment raided this week, officials said Friday as authorities continued the hunt for two suspects who fled the scene.
Belgian police found an Islamic State flag next to the body of an Algerian killed during a raid in Brussels, investigators said Wednesday as they raced to track down two suspected extremists who escaped.
An Iraqi army plane went down Wednesday near Kirkuk, with the military blaming a technical problem but the Islamic State group claiming its fighters shot it down.
Terrified residents were fleeing the Iraqi town of Hit as security forces closed in Tuesday and jihadist fighters hunkered down to defend one of their main bastions in Anbar province.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani played down recent failures to jump start peace talks with the Taliban, instead choosing to highlight recent successes against the nascent Islamic State presence in Afghanistan.
The Islamic State group said Tuesday it killed a Bangladeshi who was hacked to death this week, describing the victim as a top Shia preacher.
