Jihadists aligned with Islamic State ambushed a Nigerian military convoy killing 15 soldiers and four militia fighters, reported AFP quoting military sources. The attack took place in Borno, a state in northeastern region of Nigeria.

Nigeria: Jihadist ambush kills 19 troops, says report

An increase in Islamic insurgency has led to the displacement of nearly 670,000 people in east Arica's Mozambique. Jihadist violence has been a major reason behind displacement at this level. Oil wells have become the source of conflict for which insurgency has been dragged for 3 years.

Africa: Islamic insurgency led displacement of over 670,000 people

The trial of a case pertaining to the 2014 kidnapping and beheading of a French mountaineer claimed by a jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group opened before an Algiers court Thursday.

Trial opens in Algeria jihadist beheading of French mountaineer

Islamist militants in Mozambique killed two dozen soldiers in an ambush attack, military sources told AFP, a significant show of force against the military's struggle to quell an insurgency in the north.

Jihadists kill 25 soldiers in Mozambique's restive north

A horrific attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadist group has claimed 110 lives in northeast Nigeria, said the United Nations. UN's humanitarian coordinator said that this was the "most violent direct attack against innocent civilians this year".

Nigeria attack blamed on jihadists claims 110 lives

After France & Austria, Switzerland has reported a suspected act of terror. A 28-year-old 'Jihadist' attacked two women with a knife at a departmental store in Lugano. WION's Molly Gambhir gets you a report.

Gravitas: 'Jihadist' knife attack in Switzerland

Swiss police have identified a Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday as a known jihadist.

Swiss police identify assailant in knife attack as jihadist

Tanzanian police have said that about 300 jihadists launched a cross-border attack from Mozambique last week, confirming an earlier claim by the Islamic State group.

Tanzania hit by recent IS attack near Mozambique border: police

A Swiss woman who has been been killed in Mali is being claimed to be the same missionary who was abducted in 2016. The foreign ministry said Beatrice Stoeckli was a missionary who belonged to Basel and worked in Timbuktu.

Swiss woman killed by jihadist group was a missionary

Afghan authorities were searching Tuesday for about 270 inmates, most of them Islamic State fighters, who remained on the loose after escaping during a deadly prison raid.

Islamic State jihadists on the run after Afghan prison raid

Jihadists have killed 10 people in a raid on a village in northeast Nigeria's restive Borno State, burning homes and looting food supplies, civilian militia sources said Sunday.

Jihadists kill 10 in northeast Nigerian village

Israeli fighter jets launched airstrikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria, the Israeli military said on Monday, after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and airstrikes around Gaza.

Israeli strike in Damascus killed 2 Islamic Jihad members: Group

Seven soldiers were killed on Tuesday when Islamic State-affiliated militants attacked a military position in northeastern Nigeria, two military sources stated. Fighters in several trucks fitted with machine guns attacked a military position in Mainok village, 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, they said on Wednesday "We lost seven men in the attack by the terrorists.

Seven Nigerian troops killed after attack

A militant attack in northern Burkina Faso on Tuesday killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women, the president said, one of the deadliest assaults in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country. #WION #WestAfricancountry #Burkina Faso #jihadist violence

35 civilians, 87 terrorists killed in militant attack in Burkina Faso

Thirteen French soldiers fighting jihadists in Mali killed in helicopter crash

Dutch police on Tuesday arrested two women who joined the Islamic State group in Syria after they were deported by Turkey to the Netherlands, prosecutors said. The women, one of whom has two young children, were being held on terror charges following their arrival at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, the prosecution service said in a statement.

Dutch police arrest two female Islamic State members

Turkey will start sending foreign jihadists back to their home countries next week, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told state news agency Anadolu on Friday. "Now we are telling you that we are going to send them back to you.

Turkey to send foreign Islamic State jihadists home from Monday: Minister

A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female jihadist cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid to detonate a car bomb outside Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

French female jihadist gang sentenced to up to 30 years in jail

A Sri Lankan court Tuesday rejected prosecution demands that the country's police chief and a top defence official face murder charges for failing to prevent the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks.

Sri Lanka court rejects Easter bomb murder charge against officials

Mali's council of ministers has fired the governor of its central Mopti region after gunmen killed dozens of people in the latest of a spate of ethnic killings there, it said in a statement.

Mali fires regional governor after attack that killed dozens

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused both Egyptian security forces and terrorist of committing "war crimes" in their confrontation in the restive North Sinai region.

Human Rights Watch accuses Egypt forces, militants of Sinai 'war crimes'

Attacks by two jihadist groups killed at least 17 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early on Saturday, a war monitor said.

Jihadist attacks kill 17 Syria pro-regime fighters: Monitor

Iraq has begun trial proceedings for nearly 900 Iraqi suspected members of the Islamic State group caught fleeing jihadist territory in neighbouring Syria, a judicial source told AFP on Sunday.

Iraq begins trial proceedings for 900 jihadist suspects

A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group went on trial Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.

German Islamic State woman accused of letting Yazidi 'slave' girl die of thirst

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