Canadian Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau confirms he will withdraw Canadian fighter jets from the air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.

Australian police say they believe a 15-year-old who killed a police worker in Sydney had links to terrorism.

US President Barack Obama says the Russian bombing campaign in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad is driving moderate opposition underground and "only strengthening" Islamic State.

IS executes 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, reports the dailymail online.

A man - who joined Islamic State in Syria with 11 other family members of his family - is being held against his will after being "tricked" into going, his son tells British TV channel.

The Islamic State group beheads two women in Syria on accusations of "sorcery," the first such executions of female civilians in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

A senior US commander in Afghanistan says that fighters allied with Islamic State are in contact with militants' Syrian headquarters.

Islamic State (IS) militants kills more than 120 civilians since launching a fresh attack on the Syrian border town of Kobane, activists say.

Not long after staging a cartoon contest satirizing the Holocaust, a group in Iran launched another event — this time, aimed at the Islamic State extremist group.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition targeting Islamic State militants kills more than 50 civilians in northern Syria.

Islamic State appears to have released a promotional video for its own health service featuring NHS-style branding and an Australian doctor.

The Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

A car bombing claimed by Islamic State kills three people on Friday outside the US consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.

Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus after the Islamic State group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP.

A monitoring group says, since last three months, the Islamic State has recruited at least 400 children in Syria and trained them as so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" and hard line indoctrination.

Nine British medical students and doctors are feared to has travel to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State militants.

The US defence department says it is investigating an online threat allegedly made by Islamic State to about 100 of its military personnel, and posted a list of the names and addresses on a website linked to the group alongside a call for them to be killed

The United Nations human rights office said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have committed genocide against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes against civilians including children.

Chechen woman living in Netherlands takes her two young children against their father's will to join Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria

Islamic State (IS) accepts pledge of allegiance from Nigeria's militant group Boko Haram, according to an audio message