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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.

Rio Priatna Wibawa, 23, was taking orders from Bahrun Naim, the Indonesian who is fighting for Isis in Syria.

Australia's most senior Isis operative known as Abu Khaled al-Cambodi was reported dead twice in 2016.

Surgeon Kenneth Elliott and wife Jocelyn were taken hostage by AQIM in January 2016.

East African Community-led talks have failed to end crisis that has left 1,000 dead and 20,000 missing.

Boko Haram has been carrying out attacks in northeastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries since 2009.

It follows a damning report in September in which David Cameron was blamed for a lack of strategy.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

The massive explosion happened near the village of Shomali, 60 miles south of Baghdad

More than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in three months in 1994.

Nigeria-based Boko Haram renowned for forcing civilians to carry out suicide-bombing missions.

Children with blackened faces play in and around puddles of thick crude oil gushing from the breached wells.

Ten other Turkish soldiers were wounded in the early-morning air strikes.

Civil war started in 2013 when President Salva Kii fired his deputy Riek Machar and his cabinet.

The explosion took place in the southeast Turkish province.

Iraq's defence ministry has said that Daesh media minister Ziad Kharoufa was killed in an air strike.

Turkey has issued an arrest warrant despite PYD leading US-backed fight against Isis in Syria

Fighters and journalists came under fire at a newly-liberated airport outside Tal Afar.

Seven-year-old Bana is one of the 250,000 people who have been under siege in eastern Aleppo since July.

The $4.4 bn USS Zunwalt was towed to port after engineering failure.

Reports allege ousted vice-president arrested and deported back to South Africa in failed attempt to enter Ethiopia.

Jordan closed its border on 21 June after seven of its soldiers were killed in a bombing claimed by Isis.

Abdelilah Himich, also known as Abu Suleiman Al-Faransi, is believed to be living in Syria.

Tensions between Awlad Suleiman and Gaddadfa inflamed by 'monkey prank'.

Christian militias liberating towns near Mosul find devastation in Iraq's largest monastery Mar Behnam.

Bands of Christian fighters travel across the desert in pickup trucks bearing large wooden crosses.

The Philippine military said they doubt if the abducted German sailor Juergen Kantner is still alive.

Church accuses exiled Presidential hopeful Thomas Nahimana of 'genocide crimes' in 1994.

Army veterans have long suported Mugabe but they published a shock document describing him as 'dictatorial'.