Jihadists have killed at least eight Syrian government troops near a planned buffer zone around the country's last major rebel bastion, a monitor said on Saturday.

Jihadists kill 8 Syria troops near truce zone: Monitor

Jihadists have killed three village chiefs in less than a week in Iraq's restive north, local officials said Saturday, as the targeting of state representatives escalates.

Islamic State kills 3 Iraq village chiefs in a week: Officials

Turkey beefed up its military positions in Syria's rebel bastion of Idlib Tuesday as the clock ticked down on a mid-October deadline to remove jihadists from the area.

Turkey sends reinforcements to Syria's Idlib

Twelve people were killed and 14 injured in an attack by suspected jihadists on a village in a gas-rich region of northern Mozambique, a local source told AFP on Friday.

12 killed, 14 wounded in Mozambique jihadist attacks: Source

The Egyptian forces targetted two vehicles which were crossing Egypt's western borders and were loaded with weapons and bombs. In addition, 20 vehicles and 79 motorbikes used by the militants were destroyed

Egypt Army Forces kill 8 jihadists, arrests 64 suspected IS militants

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton told an ASEAN-Australia special summit in Sydney that the use of the 'dark web' by extremists and other criminals was a spiralling problem

Australia warns Southeast Asia of high-tech terror threat

At least 57 civilians were killed as the toll for the month-old assault near Damascus continued to mount and world powers remained unable to stop one of the seven-year conflict's worst crises

Death and exodus as two Syria assaults escalate

Nomadic Fulani people and farmers from the Dogon ethnic group have engaged in tit-for-tat violence sparked by Fulanis grazing their cattle on Dogon land

25 killed in ethnic violence in Central Mali: Community leader

The deaths raise military casualties to at least 16 dead, along with more than 100 jihadists, since the start of the operation on February 9

4 soldiers, 10 jihadists killed in Egypt Sinai campaign

At peak viewing time, it broadcasts gruesome images of their purported crimes before interviewing the convicts, who appear clad in orange or yellow jumpsuits

In Iraq, death-row jihadists 'confess' on prime-time TV

Government forces backed up by Russian air power are conducting an operation to carve out a foothold in the southeast of the province, the last one that had remained completely beyond regime control

Syria regime forces push towards Idlib airbase: Monitor

Government and allied forces backed by Russian warplanes have since Monday been battling mostly jihadist fighters

Regime forces advance against jihadists in northwest Syria

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the strikes hit the village of Al-Shafah, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, in the early hours of Sunday morning

Russian strikes kill 34 civilians in Syria's Deir Ezzor: Monitor

Troops and paramilitaries had advanced into the desert from the east and north on Thursday at the start of an offensive aimed at inflicting a final defeat on the jihadists

Iraq forces open new drive to flush out Islamic State

Albu Kamal has changed hands several times, with government forces announcing its capture earlier this month but losing it to a blistering Islamic State counter-attack a week ago

Syria army, allies, retake Albu Kamal from Islamic State: Military source

A Singaporean member of the dreaded ISIS group has challenged Britain's Prince Harry to fight the jihadists and threatened to send him to 'hellfire'

ISIS challenges Prince Harry to a fight

The attacker wearing a t-shirt with the word 'jihad' threw explosives at the church on Borneo island, killing one child and wounding three

Indonesia: 2-year-old killed in church attack, suspect arrested

Turkish PM said Ankara could not confirm who was the perpetrator of the attack after President Erdogan said it was a child bomber

Turkey backtracks on 'IS child bomber' claims, PM says 'no clue' about attacker

The two took part in IS training programmes, vowed allegiance to the group and bore weapons in its name

Pakistani and Chechen-origin jihadists jailed in Norway

Father Jacques Hamel's funeral will be held at the 11th-century Gothic cathedral in the northern city of Rouen

Funeral to be held for French priest slain by jihadists

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube already work hard to take down jihadist accounts, but they often pop up again under different names

Bangladesh clamps down on social media spreading jihadist propaganda

Heavy fighting between the Islamic State group and rebels gripped a town in northeastern Syria Saturday, a monitor and an activist said, after a lightning assault by the jihadists cut a main supply route.

IS-rebel clashes rock northeast Syria town

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