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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.

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.

At least 50 policemen have been killed when they launched a raid on a militant hideout in Western Desert.

The attacks targeted a Shia mosque in Kabul and a Sunni mosque in Ghor province.

A court in Sweden has awarded a man almost £10,000 after he was imprisoned for four months, wrongly suspected of being an Isis terrorist – but they cannot find him anywhere.

Pompeo said "the world has moved" and pledged that the CIA will now refine how it works to combat "non-state threats" and "state intelligence adversaries."

The Philippines president said the martial law will remain in place until all the extremists are wiped out from the restive southern region.

Even at these taxing times, the urge only to punish has to be curbed. If it isn't, a liberal democracy will become an elected autocracy. And then no one is safe.

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.

"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.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced they have defeated Islamic State (Isis, Daesh) in its former capital after a four-month battle.

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).

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.

A Michigan school student suffered a severe cut to the hand that needed surgery after playing the "Isis Game" where pupils pretend to behead each other.

Iraq Army troops invaded Kurdish-controlled Kirkuk as tensions are soaring following an independence referendum held in the autonomous Kurdistan region.

New York jihadi Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, is convicted of laying two pressure cooker bombs. He considered himself 'a soldier in a holy war against Americans'.

More than 300 people died when a truck packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of Mogadishu's Safari Hotel on 14 October.

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.

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.

Members of the minority Coptic community have repeatedly been targeted by Isis-affiliated militants in recent months.

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.

Final battle for Raqqa underway as Isis left isolated and with dwindling supplies in its last enclaves within the Syrian city, once the Islamic caliphate's de facto capital.

At least 6,000 Kurdish troops are believed to have been deployed to the oil-rich city in response to Baghdad's alleged threats.

Tensions are soaring in the country following an independence referendum held by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in September.

Madihah Taheer allegedly spent hundreds of pounds to help husband Ummariyat Mirza plan deadly terror attack, Woolwich Crown Court heard on Thursday (12 October).