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Norway

Norway government under pressure after populist party quits coalition

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has said she will continue to govern with a minority three-party coalition.

Iran

Euroviews. In killing Soleimani, Trump’s only success is the uniting of a once divided Iran ǀ View

The extrajudicial killing of Iranian official Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandis by US forces last week will set back Western-Iranian relations by decades, with repercussions not only across the region but across the world.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Islamic State fighters and their families return to Bosnia

12 of those returned were children who had been living under ISIS rule in Syria.

Belgium

Islamic State servers targetted in European takedown operation

Twitter, Google, Instagram and Telegram were involved in the operation, Europol said.

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Netherlands

Netherlands not required to return children of IS families, says court

An appeals court has ruled the Netherlands is not required to repatriate the children born into families of its fighters that left to join the Islamic State.

United Kingdom

UK to repatriate orphaned children of suspected IS fighters from Syria

"These innocent, orphaned, children should never have been the subject to the horrors of war," says Dominic Raab

Denmark

Denmark to strip suspected ISIS fighters of consular assistance

Denmark has already announced plans to strip dual nationals of their citizenship if they have travelled abroad to fight with militant groups.

Turkey

Turkey begins deportation of IS militants, with many headed to EU

Eleven French jihadists are expected to be sent home in the coming days, along with seven Germans, according to state media.

Turkey

Turkey will begin sending ISIS fighters back to Europe 'from Monday'

Ankara has vowed to send European militants back to their home countries whether they are welcome or not.

United Kingdom

Briton who fought ISIS in Syria jailed for four years

Ayden James, 28, was convicted about his 2017 stay in an Iraqi base held by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) which is recognised as a terrorist organisation by the UK.

France

French firm Lafarge cleared of Syria war crimes complicity charge

The industrial giant is still accused of financing terror groups including IS as it tried to keep its Syrian plant open amid the conflict.

Mali

French soldier killed in Mali bomb attack claimed by ISIS

Corporal Ronan Pointeau, 24, died in the northeastern region of Menaka as his vehicle was "struck by an explosive device," the Ministry of Defence said.

Syria

ISIS confirms death of Baghdadi, threatens US with revenge

The so-called Islamic State confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and vowed revenge against United States.

World News

ISIS confirms al-Baghdadi's death and names new leader

The jihadist organisation confirmed that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and chief spokesman had died after the US announced the deaths earlier this week.

Syria

ISIS insider helped in hunt for leader al-Baghdadi

An ISIS insider who gained the trust of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was passing on information about his whereabouts to the United States via Kurdish officials, NBC News' Richard Engel reports.

Iraq

How Kurdish-led intelligence helped track Baghdadi

How Kurdish-led intelligence helped track Baghdadi

Syria

MEP calls for humanitarian corridor for Europe’s children of IS

A Belgian MEP has called for a humanitarian corridor to be established to return Europe’s children of the so-called Islamic State (IS).

Syria

Euroviews. With the US absconding, the EU is facing a day of reckoning over Turkey’s Syria campaign ǀ View

Apart from the immediate disastrous results for the Kurds who have freed their areas from Islamic State (IS) with tremendous sacrifice, the US troops’ pull-out will have vast security implications for Europe as well.

The Cube

Why Iraqis are on the streets after 'years of anger and frustration'

Prime Minister Mahdi says he will listen to the ''legitimate'' demands of protesters, but with many calling for his downfall, what is next for Iraq?

Syria

Exclusive: THE CAMPS AND THE CALIPHATE - what is left of ISIS

Overflowing latrines, sewages trickling into tents, acute malnutrition and diarrhoea are just some of the issues the nearly 75,000 people held in the al-Hol detention camp in northeastern Syria face every day. More that 11,000 foreign nationals suspected of links to IS fighters are held there.