The Iraqi government has reportedly launched a campaign with Iran-backed Shia militias to recapture the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State.
The Islamic State (IS) have released a new propaganda video apparently showing the brutal killing of dozens of Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
The Islamic State has said that it was behind Wednesday’s terror attack at the Bardo museum that left 23 people dead.
During the US war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands died the sort of deaths that, if broadcast in an Islamic State video, would have inflamed international opinion.
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance or “Bay’ah” to the Islamic State (IS) in an audio statement shared online.