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More than 50,000 Isis fighters killed since 'war on terror' began, Pentagon official confirms
Pentagon official said the 50,000 figure was a 'conservative estimate'.
Christian militia taking on Isis: 'They burned our churches, desecrated our monasteries'
IBTimes UK Special Report: The fighters ride to battle under wooden crucifixes and Shia paramilitary flags
Alleged terrorist with loaded Kalashnikov arrested in Rotterdam
Man had a large image of the Islamic State flag in his home.
Iraqi forces have surrounded Mosul with fall 'inevitable', Pentagon confirms
The fight for northern Iraqi city is still expected to take several months.
Inside Samarra: Iraq's holy city that has withstood a decade-long Isis and al-Qaeda onslaught
The Shia stronghold held out against Isis despite relentless suicide bomb attacks.
Women and children held captive by Isis are released as Sirte is liberated
Dozens of women and children – some of them migrants from sub-Saharan Africa held captive by Isis – escaped or were released from militant-held territory.
Libyan forces take control of Isis-held Sirte in major blow to Islamic State
The town was the Islamist terror group's major centre of power in Northern Africa.
Iraqi civilians flee as heavy sandstorm rages through Mosul
The cloudy skies act in favour for the militants as they hinder air strikes and blur the vision of Iraqi forces.
Isis could have adopted new tactics to unleash terror on Europe, Europol warns amid ongoing Mosul offensive
A Europol report cautions against foreign fighters returning from Isis strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
Isis warn supporters against using WhatsApp to avoid being targeted by US bombs
Islamic State has grown increasingly paranoid as senior commanders are killed.
Humanitarian situation worsens for displaced Iraqis as winter months approach
The UN is preparing for a worst-case scenario in which more than a million people are made homeless and food shortages set in.
Just 10% of Isis fighters returning to Europe reject group's ideology, study says
German study finds that nearly half of returnees remain committed to extremist ideology.
Ohio State Isis knife attacker was 'Somali refugee who should not have been here' says Trump
President-elect previously made controversial remarks on Somali community during electoral campaign.
Duterte warns Isis-linked local Maute group not to force him to wage a war against them
The group is active in Lanao del Sur province, where Duterte's security convoy was hit by a blast recently.
German spy agency employee arrested over Islamist comments and internet chatroom leaks
The German intelligence agency, BfV, first became aware of the man's actions 4 weeks ago.
Battle for Mosul: Isis killing civilians who refuse to let snipers use their homes
UN says it has evidence Isis dishing out brutal punishments to civilians who reject their demands.
Emotional scenes as relatives who fled Mosul separately are reunited at refugee camp
Relatives hold hands and try to embrace through the wire fence around the camp, lifting up new babies so that their families can meet them.
Life inside Mosul: Residents carry white flags as war rages around them
Many residents have chosen to stay in Mosul, preferring the risk of crossfire to spending the winter in a cold displacement camp.
Australia seeks extradition of alleged Isis beheading plotter Neil Prakash after arrest in Turkey
Prakash also allegedly appeared in Isis propaganda videos urging westerners to wage jihad.
Isis militants and Israel clash for the first time in terror group's history
Daesh fire at Israeli military patrol, which responded with an air strike reportedly killing 4 jihadis.
FBI targets Islamic State social media chiefs
American and allied forces campaign takes out more Daesh's influential computer experts
Recently arrested Indonesian was making powerful bombs and plotting attacks under Isis orders, police say
Rio Priatna Wibawa, 23, was taking orders from Bahrun Naim, the Indonesian who is fighting for Isis in Syria.
8 Egyptian soldiers killed as car bomb explodes in Isis-plagued northern Sinai
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
Air strike by Assad warplanes kill three Turkish troops fighting Islamic State
Ten other Turkish soldiers were wounded in the early-morning air strikes.
Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces and Shia militia cut off key road link to Isis stronghold
Iraq's defence ministry has said that Daesh media minister Ziad Kharoufa was killed in an air strike.
Husband and wife jailed for funding Isis fighter nephew from London home
Mohammed and Nazimabee Golamaully sent cash to nephew fighting Kurdish PKK, saying it was his 'Islamic obligation'
Islamic State torches sacred texts and smashes Virgin Mary sculptures in Iraq monastery
Christian militias liberating towns near Mosul find devastation in Iraq's largest monastery Mar Behnam.
Onward Christian Soldiers: Waging holy war on Islamic State in Iraq
Bands of Christian fighters travel across the desert in pickup trucks bearing large wooden crosses.
British woman who lost her son to Isis starts counselling service to prevent jihadist radicalisation
Nicola Benyahia's son Rasheed, 19, left home on 29 May 2015 and went to Syria to join the Islamic State.
Moroccan courts sentence Frenchmen of ISIS-linked charges based on 'fake' confessions, say activists
Sentencing based largely on "tainted" confessions written in Arabic, instead of their mother tongue of French.