A British teenager who fled the UK to marry a member of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria should be allowed to return, said the father of another schoolgirl who accompanied her four years ago.

So-called Islamic State said they carried out both attacks, supposedly their first in the country.

No DNA of Mehdi Nemmouche found on door of Jewish Museum or revolver, they claim

Teenager says she encountered her ISIL captor, who kept her as a sex slave, in Germany

Its claim runs counter to a statement by the Tajik government which accused a banned Islamist opposition party of being behind the attack.

The bridge - known as the 'old bridge' or 'iron bridge' - is an essential artery linking the two sides of the Tigris river in central Mosul

Mass graves discovered near Hawija, recently taken from ISIL, are believed to contain around 400 bodies.

The report blames the Assad regime for a chemical strike that killed dozens in an opposition-held town

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) echoed the Islamic State’s ‘donut stunt’ after liberating Raqqa, Syria from the militants on October 17. The stunt was previously performed by the Islamic State (ISIS) when they captured Raqqa three years earlier. 

US backed Syrian forces celebrate after they take Raqqa from so-called Islamic State fighters.

An SDF assault on final ISIL positions in Raqqa has led to mass surrenders says the Kurdish-led, US-backed force.

That means the only area the Islamic State group still control in Iraq is a stretch alongside the western border with Syria.

French media report one woman had her throat slit and another was stabbed to death, in what is being treated as a likely terror attack.

Relations have strengthened despite Ankara and Moscow supporting opposing sides in Syria's civil war

The self-proclaimed Islamic State group has taken responsibility for suicide attacks that killed at least 50 people and injured more than 80 in a southern Iraqi city