Iraq's offensive to retake the jihadist bastion of Fallujah has displaced 43,000 people in just over three weeks, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.
US investigators on Tuesday worked to untangle the complicated motive of the "radicalised" gunman behind the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, as reports emerged that he frequented the popular nightspot.
Iraqi forces on Monday said jihadist fighters were attempting to flee Fallujah by blending in with civilians who have used recently opened corridors to escape the besieged the city.
Gunmen shot and badly wounded a prominent Syrian activist and journalist living in southern Turkey, the latest attack on an anti-jihadist refugee from Syria inside the country, reports and fellow campaigners said on Monday.
The top Democrat on a congressional intelligence committee said local law enforcement believed the suspect in Sunday's deadly Orlando shooting had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group.
Fighters from the Islamic State group killed at least 18 members of two families as they attempted to flee the besieged jihadist bastion of Fallujah, relatives said on Sunday.
Iraqi troops advanced against Islamic State south of Mosul on Sunday as the US-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the militants on multiple fronts across their self-proclaimed caliphate.
At least eight people were killed and scores wounded in twin suicide and car bomb blasts on Saturday in a Damascus suburb that contains Syria's holiest Shia Muslim shrine, state television said.
US-led coalition jets and Turkish artillery killed 31 Islamic State militants in Syria, the local Dogan News Agency reported on Saturday, without saying when the attacks occurred.
Forces allied with Libya's unity government said Saturday they had recaptured the port in the jihadist stronghold of Sirte from Islamic State group fighters who are surrounded inside the city.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu monastery worker who was stabbed to death in Bangladesh, a monitoring service tracking militant online activity reported a day after the slaying.
Arab-Kurdish fighters backed by the United States on Friday cut the Islamic State group's main supply route between Syria and Turkey, a monitor said, in a major setback for the jihadists.
