Islamic State

Four men are reported to be in police custody as Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack that killed 84 people on Bastille Day.

Bangladesh police continue to question friends and family of seven men suspected over last week's attack on a restaurant in Dhaka, in which 20 hostages were killed.

Suicide bombers have struck three cities across Saudi Arabia in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks.

The number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has risen to 165, officials have said.

The weekend's deadly blasts in Iraq are about revenge and are an attempt by Islamic State to drive a wedge between the Sunni and Shia population, analysts say.

Twenty people, most of them foreigners, were killed during an attack by suspected Islamist extremists on a cafe in Bangladesh, officials say.

The triple suicide bombing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport is the sixth deadly bomb attack in Turkey's two largest cities in the past year.

The Iraqi Prime Minister declares the army has 'liberated Fallujah' from Islamic State, and calls on all Iraqis to celebrate.

Two men found with objectionable material from Islamic State have been sentenced, with one of the cases understood to be the first of its kind in NZ. Audio

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Libyan forces say they have re-taken control of the port in the city of Sirte, after fierce fighting against militants from the Islamic State militant group.

Civilians fleeing an Iraqi stronghold of Islamic State are being shot as they try to leave, an aid agency says.

Syria's army has pushed into Raqqa province, home to the de facto capital of Islamic State, after a major Russian-backed offensive a human rights monitor says.