Branded as devil worshipers by extremists, as many as 200,000 Yazidis in northern Iraq fled their homes following a siege by ISIS.
Watchdog group Amnesty International accused Nigeria's army of "extensive" rights violations in the fight against Boko Haram.
Hezbollah has vowed to aid the Lebanese army in repelling the terrorist group formerly known as ISIS, which controls a wide swath of Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic State seized three towns in northern Iraq, and as many as 200,000 members of a religious minority may have fled the area.
The Israeli army said 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, the missing soldier who was feared to have been captured by Hamas, was killed in action.
The Libyan military denied the al Qaeda-linked group has taken over Benghazi, saying it abandoned parts of the city for strategic reasons.
Now the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria's lasting progress is only discouraged by Boko Haram's pervasive violence.
Mehdi Nemmouche spent more than a year fighting with Islamist fighters in Syria, and was extradited from France to Belgium on Tuesday.
Members of the Islamist group, active in the southern part of the country, attacked a convoy of villagers celebrating the end of Ramadan.
Nigeria says the Islamist militants want to gain traction in neighboring Cameroon.
A fatwa purportedly from the Islamic State orders girls ages 11 to 49 to undergo FGM. But is it real?
Air Algerie Flight 5017 was flying over a disputed region of Mali, where al Qaeda-linked jihadists and government forces have been fighting.
No one has claimed responsibility, but militant Islamic group Boko Haram has carried out a series of attacks in the region in recent months.
Mosul is one of the holiest cities of Christianity in the Middle East and the ancient churches of Mosul are some of Christianity’s oldest.
As sectarian violence increases in Iraq, a weekend of fatal bombings culminated Tuesday with a suicide attack on a police checkpoint.
Nigerian government spokesman appeared to deny Boko Haram had taken over Damboa.
Arab governments have their own problems at home, where many are fighting militant groups like Hamas.
The car bombs were set off in four different districts.
ISIS swallowed large chunks of Iraq and imposed its version of Shariah in the territory it decreed the Islamic Caliphate.
Suspected Boko Haram members also set homes ablaze in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damboa.
Islamic State could soon step up involvement in the Israeli crisis.
This month Abdul Raqib Amin appeared alongside two other British-based men in an ISIS recruitment video.
