Russia said on Sunday talks were taking place to include Aleppo in a temporary lull in fighting declared by the Syrian army in some western parts of the country, a sign of intensified efforts to halt a surge of violence in Syria's former commercial capital.

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shi’ite Muslim worshippers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said.

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing nine people and wounding 26 others, police and medics said.

Saudi security forces killed two militant suspects and arrested a third in a two-day operation in southwestern Bisha province, the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday, accusing them of involvement in deadly attacks claimed by Islamic State group.

The United States and its allies conducted 25 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Monday.

At least 38 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded in fresh violence in Syria's second city Aleppo on Thursday, a monitoring group said.

Police have arrested a “terrorist cell” in Upper Egypt’s governorate of Sohag Wednesday, state news agency Mena reported.

The U.S.-led military coalition targeted Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with 22 strikes on Wednesday in its latest daily attack on the militant group, the coalition leading the operations said.

At least 20 people were killed by fresh air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Thursday including three children, and the death toll was expected to rise due to the number of serious injuries, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Turkey's military returned fire on Islamic State (IS) group positions in northern Syria on Thursday, killing 11 members of the militant group, military sources said.

Egypt’s state news agency says three policemen have been killed in a roadside bombing in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula.

The US military is now conducting cyber attacks on the Islamic State group, a general said Tuesday as the Pentagon looks for ways to accelerate the fight against the Islamist militants.

Top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was handed over to French authorities on Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Belgium said.

Militants from the Islamic State group seized five villages from Syrian rebels close to the Turkish border Wednesday, further weakening the rebels’ foothold in the Aleppo area.

A young Egyptian named Sherif Adel Habib was found with severe burns leading to his death in a London hospital after a fire broke out in a residential building in the district of South Hall in London. The British Metropolitan Police Service reported that a 21-year-old man was rescued from the vehicle by London Fire Brigade, and was taken to a specialist burns hospital in Essex where he was reported dead. His family were informed.

Yemeni government forces and their Emirati allies took back control of the country's largest oil export terminal from al Qaeda on Monday, security officials said, a day after routing the militants from their nearby stronghold.

Fighting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has killed at least 30 people in the past 24 hours including at least eight children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

Yemeni officials say forces loyal to the country’s internationally recognized government have retaken the southern coastal city of Mukalla, driving out al-Qaida militants a year after they captured it.

Turkey will take additional military measures after suffering 46 artillery attacks from Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria since January, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.

German authorities are investigating nine Muslim extremists on suspicion they planned to kill two people over disagreements in their interpretation of Islam.

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb will visit Nigeria and France to “correct the image of Islam,” Youm7 reported Sunday.