The Berlin market attacker, Anis Amri, has been shot dead by police in Milan.
Thousands of civilians have fled Mosul in the last week as the Iraqi military and Kurdish peshmerga attempt to retake the city from Islamic State control.
An operation to retake control of the city of Mosul from the Islamic State has been launched by a coalition of the Iraqi military, Kurdish Peshmerga, and other allied forces.
US President Barack Obama says that Islamic State’s power and influence in Iraq and Syria has been degraded, but warned that the terror group still poses a threat in the Middle East and beyond.
Militants from the Islamic State have launched a counter-offensive in an attempt to repel the Iraqi military from Falluja, while upwards of 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the city.