Iraq on Saturday buried the victims, among them many young boys, of a suicide attack that ripped through a trophy ceremony after a football tournament and killed 32 people.
A group of suicide bombers from the Islamic State group killed three Iraqi soldiers Saturday in an attack on a military base hosting hundreds of coalition advisers, officers said.
The Islamic State group suffered a double setback in Syria as army troops recaptured the ancient citadel in Palmyra and the Pentagon said the jihadists' second-in-command was killed in a US raid.
US forces killed the Islamic State's second-in-command this week, dealing a blow to the extremist group's ability to conduct operations in Iraq, Syria and abroad, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said.
Syrian soldiers advanced slowly in heavy fighting with Islamic State fighters near Palmyra's ancient ruins on Friday, state media and a monitoring group said, in an offensive which could open up swathes of eastern Syria to government forces.
Pro-government forces pushed a fierce bid to recapture Syria's ancient city of Palmyra from jihadists on Thursday as Moscow hosted top US diplomat John Kerry for talks on the fraught peace process.
Iraq's armed forces started an offensive against Islamic State in the northerly Nineveh province in what a military statement described as the first stage of an operation aimed at liberating the city of Mosul.
Belgian police were hunting for a "third man" filmed with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as investigators accumulated evidence that the same jihadist network was involved in the Paris attacks.
A man was found guilty in London Wednesday of a 2014 plot to kill police, troops and civilians in a drive-by shooting inspired by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists.
Belgian police identified two suspected Islamic State suicide bombers captured on security cameras before they struck Brussels Airport in the first of two attacks that also hit the city's metro, public broadcaster RTBF said.
World leaders united in condemning the carnage in Brussels and vowed to combat terrorism, after Islamic State bombers killed around 35 people in a strike at the symbolic heart of the EU.
Several countries have tightened or reviewed airport security following twin explosions at Brussels Airport, as Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull blamed Europe's porous borders and lax security for the attack.
