US fighter jets on Friday launched strikes against Islamic State from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy said, marking the first time a US aircraft carrier targeted areas in the Middle East from the Mediterranean since the Iraq War began in 2003.
Authorities in Malaysia have uncovered an immigration racket involving the sabotage of a computerised passport-screening system at its main international airport, police said.
Fighters allied with Libya's UN-backed unity government have captured two coastal towns from the Islamic State group in an advance towards its bastion Sirte, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight against an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern district of the city of Falluja, the group's bastion near Baghdad, officers said on Tuesday.
Kuwait's supreme court on Monday upheld the death sentence handed down to the main convict in the Islamic State group bombing of a Shia mosque that killed 26 people.
Iraqi forces thrust into the city of Fallujah from three directions on Monday marking a new and perilous urban phase in the week-old operation to retake the jihadist bastion.
Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga forces on Sunday launched an offensive to retake areas east of Mosul, the Islamic State's main hub in the country, a statement said.
Sunni politicians in Iraq condemned a visit by Iranian General Qassem Soleimani to Shia paramilitary forces fighting alongside the Iraqi army to drive Islamic State militants out of the city of Falluja.
A top ISIS commander in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah is among 70 militants killed in coalition air strikes, the US military said.
Yemeni authorities on Saturday arrested seven Islamic State group suspects, including one "Westerner", in second city Aden, a police officer told AFP.
Hundreds of people fled the Falluja area on Friday with the help of Iraqi forces who are fighting to retake the city from the Islamic State jihadist group, officials said.
Islamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.
