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Mourners and well-wishers have been laying flowers, lighting candles and leaving tributes to the victims at the site.

The targeted mall CentrO, is reportedly one of the biggest malls in Germany with almost 250 shops.

Turkey reportedly banned some social media sites after the Isis video emerged online.

They were thought to be planning bomb attacks in Australian's second largest city on Christmas Day.

The Syrian Army announced the 'turning point' on state-run television.

Operation Lafiya Dole resulted in recapture of several territories held by Isis-affiliated terrorists.

Around 34,000 have left rebel held areas of east Aleppo since start of ceasefire, said the charity.

In this gallery, IBTimes UK looks back at the year in four countries ripped apart by conflict: Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen.

People in Western nations need to urge their leaders to act on the violence.

The draft resolution drawn up by Egypt says Israel's construction has 'no legal validity'.

The Security Council also approved providing aid for another year.

Christmas celebrations were briefly disrupted by an explosion, but no injuries were reported.

18 Lucha activists were arrested by police during a peaceful demonstration in Goma.

Police said that more than one gunman could be on the run.

UN proposed one-year-long arms embargo as genocide fears increase in war-torn South Sudan.

US, EU sanctions against top Congolese security officials said to be 'useless' as crackdown on protests deepens.

They died battling Islamists who earlier killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist

Nation has treated more than 2,000 Syrians since 2013, according to Israeli army.

The rebels remaining in Aleppo were told to leave 'as soon as possible' by the Syrian forces and their allies.

Raphael Katebe Katoto tells IBTimes UK as situation deteriorates due to 'the population taking charge'.

The attacks in Brussels, Nice, Orlando and Berlin made the biggest headlines, but terrorists claimed the lives of thousands of people across the world in 2016.

Their aim was 'to convince viewers that those pictures are the outcome of the ongoing events in the city of Aleppo'.

Lucha activist tells IBTimes UK of fears as youths 'form groups' to protest against President Kabila using violence.

The UN body said an additional 2,400 people are internally displaced in northeast Myanmar.

IS supporters deemed attacks in Germany and Turkey "a day of good tidings".

Shots were fired outside the US embassy in Ankara hours after the assassination of the Russian ambassador.

Bana's convoy was reportedly briefly held up by a regime checkpoint in no man's land.

Under the slogan: 'Football is our life, let us live', Iraq wants Fifa to allow international games

IBTimes UK looks at the armed group accused of large-scale atrocities in the country's northwest.