The resolution also calls for 'rapid, safe and unhindered' humanitarian aid delivery throughout Syria.
Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook said they are doing all they can to track down the Islamic State chief.
Songs can now be banned from being broadcast on local media if authorities decide so.
Islamic State has carried out successful attacks across the world despite the Mosul campaign.
"This Congolese crisis is forgotten for financial reasons, due to international corruption," activist tells IBTimes UK.
Russian military offered support to Turkish operation in al-Bab for the first time.
Rahmani had requested for asylum after allegedly receiving death threats from hard-liners.
For President Pierre Nkurunriza to run for a fourth term the constitution would have to be amended.
In a letter, they told Myanmar government to lift all restrictions that are placed on humanitarian aid to Rakhine State.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had said on Christmas Eve that the extremist group had been defeated.
Previous ceasefires have been broken but there is optimism this one can hold.
Muslim Khan was convicted of killing 31 people, including civilians and security personnel
New MPs, who took oath of office this week, are set to select Somalia's next President.
Long-standing civil war foes Renamo guerrillas and Frelimo government agreed to 'new year' ceasefire.
Thousands rushed to fight jihadis in Mosul, but their friends and families are expected not to mourn.
The militant had reportedly been deployed to shore up defence of Tabqa Dam.
It would bring a nationwide halt to the fighting that erupted in 2011.
German lawmakers have warned that fake news poses a threat to democracy.
CENCO hopes for political agreement as risks of political instability and violence grow.
For more than a decade, ethnic Baloch groups have been fighting against the government for greater autonomy.
What the secretary of state said would be standard in most Western capitals.
Announcement comes days after Islamist group Boko Haram lost major stronghold in Nigeria.
The jihadists had captured the city in June 2014.
The alleged victim, Hadil Yassin Abu al-Madi, was a resident of al-Yarmouk district in capital Damascus.
The Nashir Media Foundation posted a series of graphical images with inflammatory messages on a Telegram channel.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a US and Yemeni imam implicated in the planning of several al-Qaeda attacks.
Iraqi army admit battle for Mosul could take months despite latest setback for Jihadists.
Neither of the mortars exploded although one landed in the courtyard of the embassy.
Kerry passionately defended two-state solution as the only way to secure Israel's survival as Jewish and democratic state.
In the first genocide of the 20th century, Germany massacred tens of thousand of Herero and Namaqua tribesmen.