Syria's peace talks hit a fresh impasse over President Bashar al-Assad Monday, as the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah vowed his Shia movement would keep fighting alongside the regime until Islamic State jihadists are defeated.

Islamic State militants attempted an attack on the Bashiqa military camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday morning and Turkish troops stationed in the camp retaliated, military sources said.

The Egyptian High Council of Justice's disciplinary board retired on Monday 15 judges on charges of engaging in politics, which is prohibited for judges.

Security forces have killed 10 members of the Sinai Province militant group in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuwaid, according to security sources.

Egyptian military forces seized a truck containing barrels of explosives in Central Sinai, stated military spokesperson Mohamed Samir Monday. The forces inspected the truck loaded with gravel that hid explosive-filled barrels in al-Qatf area in Central Sinai and two suspects were arrested, Samir added, continuing that the truck contained 100 iron cylinders used for bombs, 100 plastic barrels with sulfuric acid, 22 barrels with high-explosive material, 22 thinner jars, and explosive material of C4.

An Egyptian appeals court rejected on Monday the Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide's request to change the judge presiding over a case involving him and 36 other defendants.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on their military vehicle in the southeastern town of Nusaybin near the Syrian border on Monday, security sources told Reuters.

Giza Criminal Court suspended on Sunday the retrial of Muslim Brotherhood party members. Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei, along with 36 other members of the party, were due to be trialed over a case publicly known as the "Rabaa task force". Charges include the kidnapping of state officials and plotting to burn state facilities and churches.

At least 13 policemen were killed in an armed attack on a checkpoint in the North Sinai city of Arish on Saturday, Egypt's interior ministry said in an official statement.

After months of losing ground in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group is showing signs of wear and tear, and its opponents say they have seen an increase in desertions among the extremists. But the jihadis appear to be lashing back with more terrorist and chemical attacks.

A US Marine who was part of the coalition fighting Islamic State was killed in a rocket attack by the militant group in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement on Saturday.

The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State (IS) group militants in Iraq with 16 strikes on Saturday, the US military said on Sunday.

The Islamic State (IS) group is carrying out genocide against the Christian, Yazidi and Shia minorities on its territory in Iraq and Syria, the United States declared Thursday.

The grand sheikh of al-Azhar, Egypt’s highest Islamic authority, said that it is up to individuals, in Islamic law, to decide to believe or disbelieve, in a speech he gave at the German parliament on Tuesday.

A Coptic monk was arrested early Thursday after protesting against the construction of a road through what he says are archeological grounds of a monastery in Wadi al-Raian in Fayoum governorate, Youm7 reported.

The Islamic State jihadist group on Thursday released pictures of six men being executed on charges of "spying" for the Iraqi government in the city of Fallujah.

A police conscript was killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded in Sheikh Zuwayed, North Sinai, according to security sources.

The suspect gunned down in a shootout with Belgian police on Tuesday was found with an Islamic State flag, a Kalashnikov rifle and a book of "extremist" literature next to his body, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday.

At least 21 people have been killed and 32 were injured in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, a military source and a civilian joint task force member said.

At least 16 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus in Peshawar, the main city of Pakistan's insurgency-wracked northwest, officials said, with the toll feared to rise.

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, told the German Parliament on Tuesday that Christianity was the first to provide sanctuary to Islam, saying that without it the religion would have been eradicated at its inception.