Islamic State

Dead include four senior commanders and Abu Muhammad al-Shimali who oversees foreign fighters at IS

Ibnu Mas‘ud is a ramshackle complex of classrooms, dormitories and prayer rooms that hosts up to 200 students

The extremist group has already lost more than half of its nearby bastion of Raqqa

Tombs marked 'martyr' have multiplied, as have posters of 'hero fighters'

'I've seen no convincing evidence, intelligence, or open-source or other rumour or otherwise that he's dead'

An operation to exchange wounded Islamic State fighters with the bodies of other soldiers is underway

Father said he tried keeping his children away from such sights, but they slowly became accustomed to macabre scenes

Ex-porn star says after terrorist group sent her mocked-up execution photos

Two suspects blamed imam for plotting while another two denied knowing him

Cardiff company is being used by IS to finance terror plots, The Sunday Times reports

Police kill five attackers some of whom were wearing explosive belts

Operation would continue until the army recovered control of Lebanese territory up to, says army spokesperson

Divisions across political, religious, ethnic lines will again rise to surface in Iraq

Ground attack to try to take the city should start when the air campaign is over, says spokesperson

Hasina's secular government blames JMB for a slew of attacks in recent years

The suspects shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation

The officer, who was taken from the scene in an ambulance, died from his wounds

Iranian officials arrest dozens allegedly linked to the attacks

Usman's testimony describes a web of radical seminaries and training and bomb making facilities

Khaled Merhi was one of four detained during raids by counter-terrorism police in suburbs in Sydney a week ago

Khalid Yusuf Bari had assisted the attackers in 2015's Safoora Goth bus massacre

30 worshippers were killed in the attack

Security forces evacuate embassy staff

Police seize several electronic devices and documents during the operation in nine different Istanbul districts

IS is losing ground in Syria to separate campaigns by the Russian-backed Syrian govt and the US-backed Kurdish forces

Other photos show men in padded bras as they attempt to slip out of Mosul

IS flag has flown from a bakery in Bahawalpur where IS symbols were for a while obvious in a number of retail outlets

Sistani has millions of followers not only in Iraq but also abroad

'We believe 99 per cent he is alive'

Earlier this month a local politician and his guard were also slain

Five Kalashnikov rifles and a pistol were seized during the raid on house

Russia's Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi

Militants, armed with machine guns and mortars, have now seized more than 75 percent of a village south of Mosul

He is accused of attempting to provide military documents and training to the group

Much of Mosul in ruins, thousands dead and wounded and nearly half the city's population forced from their homes

In a bid to identify the suicide bombers, soldiers are ordering women on the streets to remove their niqabs

Event was held at the site of a deadly truck attack in December, claimed by the Islamic State group, killing 12 people

The 38-year-old is accused of crimes of international terrorism and is now in prison in the southern town of Foggia

Villagers said a group of heavily armed attackers came to attack the village 11:00 pm

Army says many were arrested, but officers privately estimate that hundreds were able to slip through the cracks

The interior ministry estimates that 300 have quit Austria or tried to leave in order to fight in Syria or Iraq

Kunar governor confirms the air strike and casualties

The Iraqi military believes that there are just a few hundred jihadists left in Mosul

The recapture of Mosul will not however mark end of war against Islamic State

The militants said in a statement they had been targeting an Iraqi army position

Iraqi security forces are in the final stages of the gruelling battle to retake Mosul

Bangladesh has been reeling from a spate of violence in recent years

Pakistani counter terrorism agencies' operations against the IS has, by and large, been reactive rather than proactive

Indonesia has seen a string of low level attacks since January last year carried out by Islamic State sympathisers

Taking the Grand al Nuri Mosque hands a symbolic victory to the Iraqi forces