Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

NATO's commander in Afghanistan insists the dropping of the US military's largest non-nuclear bomb on the strongholds of Islamic State was the right weapon at the right time.

At least seven people are killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb explodes at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal security in Mogadishu.

At least 10 civilians, including two children, were killed Monday in a government barrel bomb attack on a mosque in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.