"There are no more militants in Marawi City," Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said while announcing the end to combat operations in the city.
Al-Omar oilfield is located in the east bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
One in five Rohingya children in Bangladesh's refugee camps are "acutely malnourished" and require medical attention, says Unicef report, Outcast and Desperate.
A steady stream of Syria-focused rhetoric from Al-Qaeda shows that the organization has not at all given up on Syria, but is rather trying to reestablish itself.
Chilling photos of bunkers, bombs and bodies inside Raqqa after Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters liberated the city from Islamic State (Isis/Daesh) militants.
The attacks come just two days after Taliban gunmen stormed a police training centre in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 74 people.
Opposition leaders are trying to mobilize against efforts to remove an age barrier in the constitution that prevents 73-year-old President Yoweri Museveni from extending his rule when his current term expires in 2021.
"Isis is currently in an 'interim' period focusing on a much bigger endgame," Elaine Duke, US President Donald Trump's acting Secretary of Homeland Security, warned.
Photos show fighting is still going on in Marawi long after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared it had been liberated from Islamist militants.
US officials estimate there are 6,500 Isis fighters left in Iraq and Syria, where multinational coalitions have recaptured several territories previously controlled by the group.
Iraq's dramatic move against the Kurds came soon after they had fought side by side to rid the country of Islamic State (Isis/Daesh).
Taliban threats, extreme poverty and child marriage prevent many girls in Afghanistan from getting a proper education.
Raqqa has witnessed intensified fighting as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), supported by a US-led coalition, started a campaign to recapture the city in June.
A refugee camp in Aïn Issa, a town 50km from Raqqa, is hosting families of fighters while coalition forces continue to gain territory in the former Isis stronghold.
Iraq Army troops invaded Kurdish-controlled Kirkuk as tensions are soaring following an independence referendum held in the autonomous Kurdistan region.
This is the worst attack in Africa's history since Al-Qaeda was blamed for twin attacks on US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, when 220 people died.
Hundreds of civilians fled the city last week as US-led airstrikes on Isis fighters intensified to drive them from one of their last Syrian strongholds.
Syrian battery attacked after it allegedly fired on Israeli warplanes during reconnaissance mission over neighbouring Lebanon.
British national Sally Jones and her 12-year-old son Joe Dixon are believed to have been killed by a Predator drone in Syria. Legal questions surround their deaths.
Philippines Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute were dead and the Marawi siege could end soon.
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.
Russia funds the Taliban in Afghanistan by $2.5m a month through laundered fuel sales, according to the Times who spoke to a treasurer with the group.
Mogadishu residents say it's the most powerful explosion they've heard in years. Nobody has claimed responsibility, though it bears hallmarks of attack by terror group al-Shabab.
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.
Its a cruel irony that an economy which gets 98% of its revenue from oil faces one of its worst fuel crises following years of conflict.
Tensions are soaring in the country following an independence referendum held by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in September.
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.
Speculation that North Korea has carried out a nuclear test has followed an earthquake detected in an area where previous tests have taken plac, north-east of Sungjibaegam.
American woman Caitlan Coleman, 31, and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, 34, were abducted while hiking in Afghanistan's Ghazni province in 2012.
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said the reclusive regime is prepared to respond to the US with a "hail of fire, not words".