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A forensics team from Baghdad will investigate the bodies after the discovery near Hammam al-Alil.

Children trained to behead prisoners and make suicide bombs have been corralled into joining the Islamic State defence

Rights group claimed officials abused 43 women and girls in seven internally displaced camps in Maiduguri.

Parachute bombs take longer to hit the target, allowing aircraft to avoid fire.

At least 196 girls still missing after being kidnapped from Chibok village in April 2014.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have clashed with Islamic State in the north of Raqqa.

Kurdish forces' launched an early morning offensive to retake Bashiqa to the east of Mosul.

John Kerry welcomed the release and said he recognised the move as a 'positive gesture by the Houthis'.

The Philippines military is trying to determine the dead woman's identity, whose body was found on a yacht in Sulu.

Seoul officials suspect that the Kim Jong-un regime might fire an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

'Biggest reinforcement of our collective defence" since the end of the Cold War says Nato.

Images show blood splattered across the tiled floors alongside toys and the rubble.

Ministry of Defence document questions the UK's ability to fight the tank.

Tensions are high as Arab and Kurdish military forces don't want Turkey to interfere in the campaign.

SAS reportedly acting on intelligence gathered by MI6, MI5 and GCHQ.

PM Haider al-Abadi says Mosul will be liberated soon amid skirmishes between government forces and IS militants.

Shia paramilitary forces report that four more villages have been liberated at Nineveh province.

Known for their skull balaclavas and combat skills, they're taking Iraq back.

German intelligence agency is investigating up to 80 soldiers for potential Islamist beliefs.

Born Terence Kelly, and known by the nom-du-guerre Abu Usama al-Irlandi, the Irishman died in the attack.

Ex-SAS man says violence was used in self defence as team tried to fight way out of police station during riot.

Clashes broke out after people attending a funeral procession reportedly threw rocks at security officials.

The blasts occurred in Hawija, about 120km south of the Isis stronghold of Mosul.

The blast occurred outside a police station in Diyarbakir on 4 November amid a crackdown on pro-Kurdish leaders in the country.

The FBI and New York police are probing reports of al-Qaeda's plan to launch attacks ahead of the 8 November presidential polls in the US.

The UN's Human Rights Agency has said as many as 50 fighters were killed at the Ghazlani military base in Mosul.

The car the pair were travelling was shot when its driver failed to listen to orders from guards.

Violence has been escalating between longstanding foes Renamo and Frelimo.

The people of eastern Aleppo don't trust government forces and have so far rejected offers to leave their homes.