French police identify first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by Islamic State group, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks.

Horror and panic spreads across Paris after simultaneous suicide bomb and gun attacks the city that left at least 127 dead and scores others injured.

Islamic State releases an undated video threatening to attack France if bombings of its fighters continue, a day after gunmen and bombers killed at least 140 people in Paris.

Kurdish fighters enter Sinjar in northern Iraq, a day after launching an offensive to retake it from Islamic State (IS) militants.

US forces have carried out an air strike targeting the Islamic State group militant "Jihadi John", the Pentagon has said.

Forget principles and morality. Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.

IS claims responsibility for attack on police checkpost at Ashulia that left a constable dead, US-based SITE Intelligence Group says.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has described claims that militants linked to Islamic State (IS) brought down a Russian airliner as "propaganda".

It’s time the government should admit to itself that whatever measures it had taken or not taken to uproot militancy, is not working or working in a very limited way. The government cannot gain anything from false assurance and denial.

An investigation is under way after a Russian airliner crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board.

The US is sending Special Forces to Syria to assist anti-government rebels in fighting the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials say.

The operative words are extremism and terrorism; so what's in a name, terrorism is terrorism. The threats have always been there and to be fair to ourselves some of the major terrorist acts have not seen handing out of convictions to the perpetrators.

The quick 'acknowledgment' of the killings by the IS, the method of which does not fit the IS footprint, raises doubts about the veracity of the post. However, let the IS issue not be a red herring.

There is no doubt that the instruction for killing the two foreigners in Bangladesh came from London, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif says.

There is no organisational structure of terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan reiterates, hours after SITE reiterated its reports on IS claim of two foreigners’ murder and Shia headquarters bomb attack.

The United States announces that Iran may take part in talks to end the civil war in Syria and warned of increased military action against the Islamic State.

Islamic State militants have killed three captives in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to columns and blowing them up, activists say.

The Islamic State jihadist group executes three people in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group said.

Police file a case under Anti-Terrorism Act in connection with the blasts at Hossaini Dalan in old part of Dhaka that left one killed and at least 87 injured.

Tony Blair apologises for mistakes made over the Iraq War - and said there were "elements of truth" to claims the war caused the rise of Islamic State.