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A senior Iraqi general predicts the battle for IS-held Tal Afar to be relatively easy, with IS militants "worn out and demoralised" after their Mosul defeat.
IS has seized tens of thousands of civilians for use as human shields in Mosul, and nearly 300 people have been executed. Fresh displacement was reported meanwhile as army advances.
Kurdish-Arab coalition closes in on militants in Manbij after pushing across the Euphrates and encircling the city.
In the second escape of its kind, 29 Yazidi hostages including women and children escaped from Islamic State, taking advantage of weather conditions to slip into Erbil
A deal has been reached between Syrian rebels and Damascus that will allow opposition fighters to leave the Waer district of Homs, a local official has said.
Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation forces have taken over 120 Sunni civilians captive to secure the release of prisoners held by the Islamic State group.
Embassy in Jordanian capital issues alert to US citizens, saying extremists have repeatedly expressed an interest in attacking "soft targets" such as shopping centres.
Two Tunisian journalists kidnapped last month are believed to be alive, despite IS declaring in January they had been killed.
British authorities say the "time is right" for police, security and intelligence agencies to be given more powers to defend the UK.