IS group

  • Daesh terooist group (Islamic State) said on Tuesday one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders was killed in what appeared to be an American air strike in Syria, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas.

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif extended a message to his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari on liberation of Fallujah, a city in Iraqi province of Al Anbar in west of Baghdad.

  • Iraqi forces on Friday entered the center of Fallujah, the Iraqi city longest held by terrorist group of Daesh (IS) , nearly four weeks after the start of a U.S.-backed offensive that cleared out the tens of thousands of residents still there; reuters reported.

  • A knife-wielding attacker stabbed a French police chief to death in front of his home late on Monday and his partner's body was found inside, officials said, killings IS's Amaq news agency said were carried out by a member of the group; Reuters reported.