Iraqi forces are pushing from the south towards Mosul airport.
Federal police and elite interior ministry units known as Rapid Response are leading the charge toward the airport, just south of the city.
Islamic State group has threatened to eliminate Christians from Egypt and 'liberate Cairo'.
Sir Michael Fallon tells Munich security conference about need to stay until 'job is done'.
The billionaire magnate said advances in genetic engineering could be a global threat.
The newly-trained soldiers include nearly 2,000 policemen from Nineveh province.
Kimberley Taylor of Blackburn is first known British woman to join fight against jihadists.
The Sufi shrine bombing in southern Pakistan claimed 72 lives on Thursday.
A three-day mourning against the terrorist act on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar will be observed across Sindh.
US defence secretary attended his first counter-Isis ministerial meeting at Nato headquarters in Brussels.
Islamabad military blames terror 'sanctuaries in Afghanistan' for the Sehwan suicide bomb blast.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights states 51 women and 88 children were among the victims.
At least 48 have been killed in a car bomb blast near car dealerships.
"Children in the IS area have lost their innocence due to all the violence", says intelligence chief.
The boys – aged 11 and 12 – are brothers and were abducted in August 2014 from Iraq's Nineveh Province.
President Trump has ordered his defence secretary to present a proposal by February-end to combat the Islamic State.
US Central Command confirmed over 5,000 rounds containing DU were fired.
PMOI says a network of camps run by the revolutionary guard trains hundreds of fighters each month.
Iraqi F16s targeted a home in western Iraq where it was known the Isis leader was meeting his commanders.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh had pleaded guilty to the offence in October, 2016.
Rachid Kassim is believed to have guided half of the 17 terrorist attacks against France in 2016.
Sources said the involvement of a number of Pakistanis in some terrorist actions led to the move.