US President Barack Obama lays out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no US policy shift to confront what he called a "new phase" in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California.

RAF jets have carried out their second set of air strikes in Syria since MPs backed military action against so-called Islamic State in the country.

The PM is to ask his cabinet to endorse a one-day Commons debate and vote on Wednesday over UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria.

Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS).

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says a vested quarter is conspiring to make Bangladesh “dysfunctional” by smearing it with the name of Islamic State (IS).

Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Bogra Shia mosque last night that killed one and injured three, US-based SITE Intelligence group says.

Detectives have detained a man for allegedly conducting propaganda in favour of Islamic State (IS) though internet. Nahid Hossain was arrested from Badda in Dhaka last night.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan reiterates there is no organisational existence of terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh.

The so-called Islamic State (IS) group is weak and Australia has no plans to send combat troops to fight it, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.

A US air strike has destroyed more than 238 fuel trucks controlled by Islamic State (IS) militants in north-east Syria, the US military has said.

We unequivocally welcome the unanimous adoption of a UN Security Council resolution urging the world to unite to defeat IS. The move follows the recent ghastly terrorist attacks in Beirut...

The Islamic State group has released a photo of the bomb it says was used to bring down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.

Air strikes by France and other nations on the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Raqqa in Syria since Sunday have killed at least 33 militants, activists say.

A French father, his little son and a reporter had a conversation in the wake of the recent Paris attacks and the conversation is going viral after it was shared on Facebook by French TV show Le Petit Journal.

Armed police have raided a flat in the north Paris suburb of Saint Denis in an operation linked to Friday's attacks.

Jordan's King Abdullah II warned of a "third world war against humanity", describing the Islamic State group as "savage outlaws of religion" in the wake of the Paris attacks.

The hacker group Anonymous claim to have taken out 5,500 Twitter accounts linked to the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.

Islamic State militants are trying to develop the ability to launch deadly cyber-attacks on UK targets such as air traffic control or hospitals, Chancellor George Osborne says.

Following one of the most devastating acts of terrorism in Paris on November 13, the world unites with mourning and prayers and expressing solidarity, particularly in the social media.

The family of a man who has been hailed as a hero for tackling a suspected ISIS suicide bomber during an attack in Con Thursday at the at the cost of his own life, say they feel pride at his actions, reports CNN.