A Michigan school student suffered a severe cut to the hand that needed surgery after playing the "Isis Game" where pupils pretend to behead each other.
Kurdish forces, called the peshmerga, had driven Isis out of Kirkuk. Now their positions in the city are under attack from the Iraqi army, its former ally against Islamic State.
Final battle for Raqqa underway as Isis left isolated and with dwindling supplies in its last enclaves within the Syrian city, once the Islamic caliphate's de facto capital.
A 15-year-old girl told a CBS News reporter that her radicalised father forced her into Isis territory five years ago. Both her father and her Isis fighter husband have died.
David Wright, from Massachusetts, US, has denied plotting to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller.
The man, known by his nom de guerre Abu Adam Al-Britani, has been fighting with Isis for the past two years.
Tehran has promised "crushing" response to Washington if the elite Islamic Revolution of Guards Corps (IRGC) is labelled as a terrorist group.
The suspect was reportedly heard shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as he ranted at passengers on a train in Brussels.
The foreign secretary came under fire from his own colleagues for comments about war-torn Libya. Johnson said Sirte could be the next Dubai once it "clears the dead bodies away".
Iraqi troops and Shia militia have recaptured Hawija, the last Isis stronghold in northern Iraq. Now comes another crisis for Iraq and its neighbours: Kurdish independence.
Isis once controlled larges swathes of Iraq and Syria, but the group has lost several areas to joint offensives launched by coalition forces in both countries.
The troops were on a routine mission near the Mali border when they came under fire.
Iraqi forces and Shia paramilitaries have entered the town of Hawija, one of just two pockets of territory still under control of Islamic State (Isis/Daesh) in Iraq.
UK home secretary Amber Rudd said the sentence will increase from 10 years, in a speech to Conservative Party conference attendees.
Photos of the battle for Raqqa, where the jihadists' last strongholds are a hospital and stadium, with hostages in both.
The holiest day in the Shia calendar is observed on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year, to mourn the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
Charges against suspect behind vehicle and knife attacks include terrorism and attempted murder.
The man first rammed into an officer and stabbed him before running over four pedestrians during a pursuit.
Commercial drones are increasingly used to drop bombs and conduct surveillance.
Aksoy was working as a press officer for the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Raqqa.
Isis abducted and beheaded soldier and sent dismembered body to Hezbollah.
Syrian Democratic Forces have seized 80 to 90 percent of the city and have hemmed the jihadists into a few districts in the north of the city.
