The discovery by Iraqi forensic teams “of mass graves believed to contain some of the soldiers killed by Islamic State (IS) militants last year” (Irish Examiner, 7 April), is, I fear, merely the first in a cycle of IS atrocities as it retreats.

Some 234 girls are missing from a Nigerian school attacked last week by Islamic extremists – significantly more than the 85 reported by education officials, parents told the state governor today.

Bangladeshi police questioned 58 suspected Islamic militants today after a man detonated a bomb outside a government building, killing one person and wounding at least 29 others, authorities said.

More than two dozen gay Arab men – arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding – could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said today.