CONFLICT

Syrian Democratic Forces' recapture of Raqqa is an emblematic loss for terrorist group who had designated the city the capital of the so-called Islamic State. But it does not signal the end of Isis.

British Isis recruiter Sally Jones, also known as the White Widow, allegedly tried to recruit a British pizza chef to assassinate the Queen with a home-made bomb in 2015.

Activists say civilians suspected of working with government were shot in the street as militants retreated before Syrian troops and allied militias regained control of the town.

Ziad Doueiri was ordered to appear before a Lebanese military court last month because his previous film was shot in Israel.

In pictures: The siege of Marawi has finally come to an end after one final fierce gunfight with a group of militants holed up in the shattered city.

Sahar's skeletal body weighed four pounds (1.9kg) when she reached the hospital in eastern Ghouta region, where humanitarian access is restricted due to a blockade imposed by the Assad regime.

"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.