IS The Islamic State
Baghdadi's aide was key to his capture
Baghdadi would sometimes hold strategy talks with his commanders in moving minibuses packed with vegetables in order to avoid detection, Ismael al-Ethawi told officials after he was arrested by Turkish authorities and handed to the Iraqis.
Trump confirms death of Islamic State chief Baghdadi in US raid
President Donald Trump says that elusive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, dying "like a dog," in a daring, nighttime raid by US special forces deep in northwest Syria.
Instructions from headquarters: Islamic State's new guerrilla manual
After losing territory, Islamic State fighters are turning to guerrilla war - and the group's newspaper is telling them exactly how to do it.
Shamima won’t be allowed to enter Bangladesh: Foreign Ministry
Affirming the country’s stance of zero tolerance to terrorism and violent extremism, the government of Bangladesh states that it will not allow Shamima Begum to enter to the country.
US designates ‘IS-Bangladesh’ as Foreign Terrorist Organisation
The US Treasury Department has added two individuals and seven organizations including “ISIS-Bangladesh” to its sanctions list for global terrorism, it said on Tuesday.
Putin, Trump agree to defeat IS in Syria: Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, in a joint statement on Syria, agreed to continue joint efforts on fighting Islamic State until it is defeated, the Kremlin says.
57 dead in US-led strikes on IS Syria prison: Monitor
US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Russia claims to have killed IS leader Baghdadi
Russia's Defense Ministry says it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in late May.
IS attack kills 32 at Syria refugee camp
At least 32 people are killed in an Islamic State group attack near a refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq, a monitor says.
Sweden truck attack: Man held for 'terrorist crime'
A truck ploughs into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm, killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
Sweden truck attack: Man held for 'terrorist crime'
A truck ploughs into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm, killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
London attack: Police make 2 more 'significant arrests'
Two more people are arrested over Wednesday's terror attack in London, police say, also giving the attacker's birth name as Adrian Russell and appealing to the public for information about him.
Afghan-based IS expands, new challenge to Trump
An Islamic State offshoot based near the Afghan-Pakistan border is expanding to new areas, recruiting fighters and widening the reach of attacks in the region, members of the movement and Afghan officials said.
Aleppo battle: Evacuation of rebel-held east 'under way'
An operation to evacuate thousands of civilians and fighters from the last rebel bastion in Aleppo is under way despite an earlier attack on a medical convoy by pro-government forces.
Battle of Aleppo ends after years of bloodshed with rebel withdrawal
Rebel resistance in the Syrian city of Aleppo ends after years of fighting and months of bitter siege and bombardment, as insurgents agree to withdraw in a ceasefire.
Syria conflict: Death toll at 32 in renewed air strikes
Air strikes pound neighbourhoods around a children's hospital and a blood bank in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Wednesday in a second day of renewed bombing that has killed at least 32 people, a war monitor, medics and emergency workers says.
Jihadists say Trump victory a rallying call for new recruits
From Afghanistan to Algeria, jihadists plan to use Donald Trump's shock US presidential victory as a propaganda tool to bring new fighters to their battlefields.
Iraqi forces take six districts of eastern Mosul
Troops from Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) capture six districts of eastern Mosul from Islamic State militants, a military statement says on Friday.