Gunmen shot dead eight plain-clothed Egyptian policemen in the Helwan district south of Cairo, the interior ministry said Sunday.
Displaced families returned home and schools reopened in rebel-held districts of Syria's Aleppo on Saturday after a truce was extended for 72 hours in the battleground northern city.
A Saudi police officer has been shot dead in the Makkah region, the interior ministry said on Friday, after four suspected jihadists died during a raid in the same area.
An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for the Islamic State has been killed in a US air strike in Iraq, disrupting the militant group's ability to lure fighters, Australia said on Thursday.
Singapore has detained eight Bangladeshi men planning to stage terror attacks in their home country, the city state said, the second group of Bangladeshis investigated in the past six months.
The Islamic State group has beheaded four teenagers and young men in its Syria stronghold of Raqa for allegedly providing intelligence to the US-led coalition, a monitoring group said ...
The Islamic State group carried out rare attacks in Iraq's deep Shia south Sunday, killing at least 33 people with twin suicide car bomb blasts in the city of Samawa.
Bangladesh police detained three people on Sunday over the gruesome murder of a Hindu tailor one day earlier, the latest deadly attack on minorities claimed by the Islamic State group.
The departure hall at Brussels airport, hit in March by a deadly double suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, will partly reopen on Sunday, the management said.
A car bomb targeting Shia pilgrims killed at least 23 people near Baghdad on Saturday, as hundreds protested in the capital for reforms and parliament made another attempt to reshuffle the cabinet.
The head of Libya's unity government has announced plans for a concerted campaign to drive the Islamic State group out of the North African country, but without foreign intervention.
US Vice President Joe Biden met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in an unannounced visit to Baghdad to show support for the government as it builds on wins against Islamic State.
