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Analysis: The WHO is vaccinating people against the devastating water-borne disease, as it spreads across Iraq and northern Syria.
Islamic State fighters seized the Syrian town of Maheen in Homs province from government forces on Sunday, a monitoring group said, expanding their presence in Syria's west.
The beheaded body of 20-year-old Syrian anti-Islamic State group activist, Ibrahim Abdul Qader, and his friend were found in a southern Turkish city on Friday.
A US-backed operation has freed 70 hostages in Iraq from an Islamic State group prison after information indicated they were about to be executed, the Pentagon said on Thursday
Blog: Father Paolo was presumed dead after he was kidnapped by IS militants in Syria a year ago. This week an IS defector said he was still alive.
Blog: Palestinians are being killed by Israeli soldiers daily, but the Islamic State group clerics in Raqqa rarely mention the violence, preferring to concentrate attacks on Syrian rebels.
![Iraqi forces [Anadolu]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/B22F61E7-C6F7-4C8E-A42B-13E8B97D3FD2.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=oDx4PdVe "Iraqi forces [Anadolu]")
Government forces in Iraq seized control of most of the Baiji oil refinery - the largest in the country - from IS, part of a wider offensive against the group.
Comment: The world has ignored the ethnic-cleansing of the Ottoman-Russian War of 1878, allowing it to play out again over a century later in Syria and Iraq [AFP]
The Islamic State has drawn nearer to the Syrian city of Aleppo after hours of ferocious fighting, as Iran announces an elite commander has been killed by the group.
The Iraqi Forces Alliance claims it has rejected an effort to topple Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, as efforts to close in on the Anbar provincial capital seized by extremists intensify.