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.

Endowment Minister Mokhtar Gomaa labeled anti-niqab initiatives “provocative” in a Sunday TV interview, continuing to say he adopts the opinion that the face veil is not obligatory.

The Egyptian armed forces killed 30 militants in airstrikes targeting weapon and ammunition stores in the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, the army spokesman said in a statement on Monday.

Yemeni troops backed by Arab coalition air strikes killed more than 800 members of Al-Qaeda in an attack on a southeastern provincial capital held by the group for the past year, the coalition said Monday.

Towering over his Kurdish partner at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, U.S. volunteer John Cole cuts an unusual figure on the road to the newest front in the war against Islamic State.

A century after her forebears fled massacres in Turkey for Armenia, Alla has gone the other way, hoping to win Turkish citizenship after leaving her impoverished homeland.

Hundreds of Coptic Christians flocked to the churches of New Valley governorate on Sunday to celebrate Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, which will culminate in a week’s time with Easter Sunday.

Clashes between Kurdish and Shi’ite Turkmen paramilitary forces broke out late on Saturday in northern Iraq, killing at least eight people and cutting a strategic road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk, security and medical sources said.

An Iranian minister said on Saturday that Islamic State has been hatching "plots and conspiracies" against Iran from its de facto capital Raqqa in Syria and has made several attempts to send "terrorist teams" into Iran.

Clashes between Kurdish and Shi’ite Turkmen paramilitary forces broke out late on Saturday in northern Iraq, killing at least two fighters and cutting a strategic road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk, security sources said.

A century after her forebears fled massacres in Turkey for Armenia, Alla has gone the other way, hoping to win Turkish citizenship after leaving her impoverished homeland.

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State staged 24 strikes on Wednesday in Iraq and Syria in its latest daily operation against the militant group, it said in a statement released on Thursday.

At least 40 pro-Syrian government fighters surrendered to Kurdish forces in the city of Qamishli in mostly Kurdish-controlled Hasaka province on Thursday, a Reuters witness said.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback killed at least 11 people in northeast Nigeria this week, two civilian vigilantes assisting the military told AFP on Thursday.