None of the infighting groups in Lybia has yet claimed the responsibilities of taking hostage two Bangladeshis in Libya, says State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam

Two Bangladeshi nationals have been identified to be among the nine people abducted from an oilfield in Libya on Friday, the Bangladesh embassy has confirmed.

A rocket attack on a United Nations base in northern Mali has killed a peacekeeper and two civilians.

The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, has been named.

Islamic State (IS) shocked the world when they took control of Mosul, Iraq's second city, in June of this year.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has a detailed structure that encompasses many functions and jurisdictions, according to ISIS documents seized by Iraqi forces and seen by American officials and Hashim Alhashimi, an Iraqi researcher.

Islamic State (IS) is a radical Islamist group that has seized large swathes of territory in eastern Syria and across northern and western Iraq.