British drone pilots who bomb Islamic State (IS) fighters could be awarded military medals under a review of how servicemen and women are recognised for their contribution to British operations, the UK's Defence Secretary has announced.

A global counter-extremism organisation has praised the international police operation that led to the arrest in Dublin of an Algerian national on suspicion of supporting jihadist terrorism.

Islamic State (IS) fighters launched a string of counter-attacks in a western Mosul neighbourhood that had recently been declared free of the militant group, setting of clashes that continued overnight, Iraqi officials said.

The successful fight against feuding gangs has prepared Limerick well to deal with the threat of Islamic State (IS) terrorism, community leaders have been told.

The expected rise in returned foreign fighters from Syria and Iraq is likely to strengthen domestic jihadist movements and magnify the threat posed to the EU, says Europol.

The US has deployed a truck-mounted missile system into Syria, an official confirmed.

Police say it was not a terrorist act, adding: "He could have shot everybody there, but he did not shoot anybody."

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Three car bombs have ripped through an outdoor market in the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 15 civilians and eight policemen.

Plans revealing thousands of plots by the Islamic State (IS) terror group to attack Europe have been discovered by coalition forces fighting the militants in Syria and Iraq, Britain’s top commander in the region has claimed.

Iraqi special forces have entered the outskirts of Mosul, taking the state television building and advancing despite fierce resistance by Islamic State (IS) fighters who hold the city.

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for five and a half years for drumming up support for Islamic State (IS).

At least 11 police officers have died and 78 other people are injured after Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in south-east Turkey with an explosives-laden truck.

Half a million tourists, dozens of heads of state, and the attention of the world’s media. If there were ever a headache for anti-terror forces, it’s the Olympics.

US authorities are investigating whether anyone helped the gunman who massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but said they did not believe anyone connected to the shooting posed a current danger to the public.

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The UN children’s fund has issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Islamic State (IS) militants to spare thousands of youngsters trapped by the battle for Fallujah.

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The Obama administration’s diplomatic point man in the fight against Islamic State (IS) said the extremists have been losing control over territory and that “this perverse caliphate is shrinking”.

Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted 300 cement workers and contractors in an area north-east of Damascus, Syrian state TV reported as fighting elsewhere in the country also worsened.

Europe’s fear of IS and the US’s election uncertainty have diverted attention from Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, writes Agnia Grigas

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The Islamic State (IS) militant group has committed genocide against minority Christians and Yazidis as well as Shi’ite Muslims, US secretary of state John Kerry said, a finding that is unlikely to greatly change US policy toward the group.

The US warned its citizens to be ready to leave Iraq in the event of what it has said could be a catastrophic collapse of the country’s largest hydro-electric dam near Mosul.

US officials said the US and Russia have agreed a plan for a ceasefire in Syria starting on Saturday that would exclude attacks on the Islamic State (IS) group and al-Qaida’s local affiliate.

Turkey’s president has condemned a car bomb attack in the capital which killed at least 28 people, saying it exceeds all “moral and humane boundaries”.

Islamic State (IS) has released a new video purportedly showing a young British boy blowing up a car and killing three prisoners inside.

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Moroccan police have arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan descent linked to the Islamic State (IS) group and who had a “direct relationship” to attackers who carried out the Paris attacks, said Morocco’s interior ministry.

US secretary of state John Kerry, in a visit to Moscow yesterday, sought to make progress in narrowing differences with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over how to end the conflict in Syria.

US authorities could soon be snooping on social media posts from would-be immigrants in a new effort to close security gaps in the country’s visa system.