In Pics: For first time since IS defeat, 19th century church celebrates mass in Iraq

Several aid workers and journalists kidnapped in Syria by a group of British Islamic State terrorists were forced to fight each other until they passed out, a US court was told during a hearing.

Islamic States captives were forced to fight each other until they passed out, trial told

A court in Sweden on Friday sentenced a mother to six years in jail for allowing her son to fight for the Islamic State (IS) group as a child soldier in Syria. The 49-year-old was convicted of aggravated of war crimes, violations of international law and for "not stopping her son, then aged 12 to 15, from being recruited and used as a child soldier for IS in the armed conflict in Syria," the Stockholm district court said in a statement.

Sweden jails mother who took son to fight for IS

At least 11 people were killed late Tuesday in an attack on a village in eastern Iraq blamed on the Islamic State group, security sources said. The attack on Al-Rashad in Diyala province left "11 dead and 13 wounded", a local security source said.

11 dead in Iraq attack blamed on IS group: Security sources

A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined the Islamic State group to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.

German IS bride sentenced to 10 years over Yazidi girl murder

Pakistani police said they killed at least three Islamic State terrorists Thursday on the outskirts of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan. Two or three other militants escaped the raid, which was carried out after a tip-off, the anti-terrorism police said in a statement.

Three Islamic State terrorists killed in Pakistan

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Islamic State (IS) terror group was present in the north of the country, saying it was "baseless", the media reported.

Taliban rejects Putin's claim of IS presence in northern Afghanistan

In a gun battle with security forces, Indonesia’s most wanted militant with ties to the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed, said the military. It is being seen as a victory for the counter-terrorism campaign against extremists in the jungles of Sulawesi island.

Indonesia’s most wanted militant with ties to IS killed in gun battle

In a stern message, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Saturday that Iran will not allow the Islamic State group to establish a presence on the country's border with Afghanistan.

Iran won't allow IS presence on Afghan border, says President Ebrahim Raisi  

The top Unites States Army General, Mark Milley, has warned of an imminent civil war in Afghanistan, saying that the conditions are ripe for the “resurgence of terrorist groups” in the country.

Afghanistan: Top US General warns of civil war, says al Qaeda, ISIS may grow

Thirteen Iraqi policemen were killed in an Islamic State group attack against a checkpoint in the country's north early Sunday, security and medical sources said.

IS jihadist attack kills 13 Iraqi police: Security, medics

French President Emmanuel Macron was to pay a visit Sunday to the Islamic State group's former Iraqi stronghold Mosul, a day after vowing to keep troops in the country.

Macron visits IS former stronghold in Iraq's Mosul

As the Afghan crisis worsens and US troops move towards the August 31 deadline, the French President Emmanuel Macron has declared that France will stay back in Iraq even if the US troops withdraw.

France to stay in Iraq even if US troops withdraw: Emmanuel Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron is among leaders set to attend a regional summit Saturday in Iraq, with the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and a deadly jihadist attack in Kabul overshadowing the meeting.

Macron to attend Baghdad summit amid fears over IS

French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the threat the Islamic State group poses ahead of an Iraqi summit Saturday overshadowed by the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and a deadly bombing in Kabul.

Macron warns against IS as Afghanistan overshadows Iraq summit

In response to the deadly suicide attack on Thursday, the United States military struck back at the Islamic State by bombing an IS member in Afghanistan on Saturday.

US airstrike targets IS in Afghanistan in response to deadly suicide attack

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that 10,000 Islamic State fighters continue to be held in detention in camps run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that this situation was 'untenable'.

Blinken: 'Untenable' for 10,000 IS fighters still to be held in Syria

The jihadist Islamic State claimed it carried out this week's attack on a mosque on the outskirts of the Afghan capital that left 12 worshippers dead, SITE Intelligence Group reported.

IS claims Afghan mosque blast that killed 12 worshippers: SITE

Jihadists on Wednesday killed a policeman before blowing up two oil wells in Kirkuk, a northern province claimed by both Iraq's federal government and the Kurds, officials said.

IS 'blows up' Iraq oil wells, kills policeman: Officials

Police in Denmark said they on Tuesday have arrested six men, who are suspected of joining and financing the Islamic State group in Syria. Two of those arrested, ages 29 and 30, allegedly travelled to Syria in 2014 where they were recruited by IS.

Denmark arrests 6 men for allegedly joining, financing IS 

Dragging a screaming lraqi actress wrapped in a fake suicide belt, television presenter Reslan Haddad, himself dressed up in a military uniform, pretends to just have rescued the blindfolded Nessma from a staged violent Islamic State attack on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Islamic State TV prank triggers controversy in Iraq

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Sunday handed over 34 orphaned children, whose parents were suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group, to a Russian delegation to be repatriated.

Russia repatriates 34 orphans of IS families from Syria

Kurdish forces arrested dozens in an operation launched to apprehend suspected family members of Islamic State militant in a camp in northeast Syria. Al-Hol is the largest such settlement controlled by Kurdish authorities, who warn it is emerging as an extremist powder keg following dozens of murders in the camp since the start of the year.

Kurdish forces arrest dozens in security sweep against IS families

The two neighbouring countries, Australia and New Zealand seem to be in a bad position with each other over the nationality of the terrorist arrested in Turkey. A 26-year-old woman was reportedly arrested this week in Turkey with her two children.

'It is wrong': New Zealand-Australia clash over responsibility of terrorist with dual nationality

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