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.

Following the death of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, investigations rose on the possible culprit of the torturous and fatal procedures done to him last January 25, 2016. Now, the Egyptian media has spoken out on their conspiracy claims on the case.

Al-Qaeda's North African branch threatened France and its allies fighting against militants in the volatile region, in a statement boasting about the group's deadly weekend attack on an Ivory Coast beach resort.

Pope Francis on Tuesday approved sainthood for Mother Teresa, the missionary nun who became a global if controversial symbol of compassion for her care of the sick and destitute.

A total of 45 alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison over “showing force,” while 22 were found innocent, Youm7 reported.

A top Islamic State commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday.

A delegation from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is arriving in Cairo on Saturday evening for talks with Egyptian intelligence officials, the movement said.

Human Rights Watch called on Egypt on Sunday to revoke the jail sentences of four Coptic Christian teenagers who were found guilty of blasphemy last month.

An Islamic State (IS) group militant from the United States was taken into custody in northern Iraq after emerging from territory controlled by the militant group in Syria, news media reported on Monday.

The Islamic State group on Monday returned to the desert town of Rutba in western Iraq, less than a day after vacating it, officials said.