David Cameron is expected to offer Indonesia and Malaysia support in tackling Islamist extremists - their "common enemy" - during a four-day trade mission.

Turkish air force jets carry out fresh strikes against Islamic State (IS) positions in Syria and also hit Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.

Turkish planes have for the first time carried out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria.

A nurse who said he was forced to work with the so-called Islamic State is thought to be returning to Australia.

The High Court rejects bail petition of a UK citizen of Bangladeshi origin, who came here for recruiting jihadists for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in a case filed for conspiring to establish an IS group in Bangladesh.

Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu promises to boost security along the country's border with Syria, after 30 people were killed by a bomb in the town of Suruc.

The Islamic State group fired chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq last month, Kurdish fighters and weapons experts have said reports The Economic Times.

Britain is committed to working with the US to destroy the "caliphate" set up by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the prime minister says.

A car bomb kills 120 people and injures at least 130 at a busy market in an Iraqi town, officials have said.

Bangladesh embassy suspends operations in war-torn Libya, advises Bangladeshis including migrant workers to avoid traveling there.

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.

Turkish authorities arrest 21 suspected members of the Islamic State group, according to state media.

At least eight people have been killed after a "technical problem" caused a bomb to fall from an Iraqi military plane over Baghdad.

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group is "intensifying" its campaign in northern Syria, President Barack Obama says.

British bank HSBC fires six staff after they filmed a mock Islamic State-style execution video during a team-building day out and posted footage online.

A video apparently released by the Islamic State group shows 25 men being shot dead in the ancient city of Palmyra, in Syria.

A UK family of 12 who went missing have joined so-called Islamic State and are "safer than ever", according to a statement said to be on their behalf.

A group affiliated with Islamic State says it fired three rockets into Israel from Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

Egypt says its army will continue an offensive in the Sinai Peninsula, after clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants left more than 100 dead.

Islamic State militants have launched a wave of attacks on the security forces in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula.