An Iraqi official says displaced families are returning to the western city of Ramadi three months after Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes drove out the Islamic State group.

Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are netting between US$150 million and $200 million a year from illicit trade in plundered antiquities, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said in a letter released on Wednesday.

Danish police said they had arrested four people on Thursday at different addresses near Copenhagen on suspicion of having been recruited by the militant group Islamic State (IS) in Syria to commit terrorist violence.

Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in November’s Paris attacks, will be extradited to France from Belgium in a few weeks to allow for additional questioning by Belgian investigators, his lawyer said on Thursday.

Pope Francis will visit the Greek island of Lesbos on April 16, the Vatican said on Thursday, in a trip aimed at supporting refugees and drawing attention to the front line of Europe’s migrant crisis.

Around 250 Syrian civilians are feared kidnapped after an attack by the Islamic State militants group on a cement factory east of Damascus, residents told AFP on Thursday.

A man allegedly implicated in a number of bombings in Giza was arrested in his apartment where explosives were seized, a security source told Youm7 in a Wednesday report.

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Al-Qaeda's North African branch has confirmed the death of a prominent leader of the network's Syrian affiliate, Abu Firas al-Suri, in a U.S. air strike in Syria on Sunday.

Dar Al-Ifta’s Islamophobia observatory denounced the running over of a Muslim woman during an anti-Islam rally in the Sint-Jans-Molenbeek municipality of Brussels on Tuesday.

Assistant Security Director of North Sinai Yasser Hafez was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering shrapnel wounds after a roadside bomb detonated under his armored vehicle west of Arish city, Youm7 reported.

The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in the West, naming London, Berlin and Rome as possible targets.

Assailants have killed a senior Saudi security officer whose body was found west of the capital Riyadh, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Tuesday, in an attack claimed by the hardline Islamic State group.

A Giza criminal court ordered two senior Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya leaders, detained for almost two years, to be released on bail pending trial for charges of inciting violence.

Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday.

A Saudi police colonel was shot dead in the Riyadh region on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack.

Dar al-Iftaa of Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to issue “sober fatwas” and overcome differences in views in an endeavor to confront extremism, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Ismailia Criminal Court resumed Monday a trial session of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 104 other co-defendants in the case known as the “Ismailia incidents,” Youm7 reported.

The Czech Republic will send back to Iraq a group of Iraqi Christians who tried to move on to Germany instead of staying in the country, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on Sunday.

A prominent leader in Syrian al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front was killed on Sunday in what rebel sources said appeared to be a US drone strike in the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.

Some male Muslim students in Switzerland will no longer need to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that has caused an uproar and consternation in the country.