Iraq and the Levant

Britain’s most wanted female terrorist Sally Jones, nicknamed the White Widow, has reportedly been killed in a drone strike.

The fugitive jihadi, who was once a punk rock singer, was said to have been killed in June in a US strike close to the border between Syria and Iraq.

Police have caught three Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants allegedly preparing to stage an attack in Istanbul.

A document showing instructions on how to build the bomb used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attack was found in the searches carried out in the militants' homes, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 26.

A Russian general was killed while battling Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants near the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, Moscow's defense ministry has said.

Russia said on Sept. 8 to have killed several top commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in an airstrike in Syria, including the "minister of war" who has a bounty on his head.

A total of 174 Turkish militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have surrendered to the Iraqi army, Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) and Peshmerga forces in Iraq after the liberation of Mosul and Tal Afar from the jihadist group.

Police shot and killed a would-be suicide bomber from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Sept. 6, preparing to attack a police station near the regional National Intelligence Organization (MİT) base in the southern Turkish province of Mersin.

The U.S.-led coalition carried out two sets of air strikes on Aug. 30 to block Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group fighters evacuated from Lebanon from reaching eastern Syria, its spokesman told AFP.

Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) stronghold in the country's northwest, the Iraqi military said on Aug. 27.

Iraqi forces on Aug. 22 recaptured from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group the first two districts of jihadist bastion Tal Afar.  Iraqi troops reached the first urban areas on the third day of a multi-pronged operation, said a military commander.

Turkish security forces on Aug. 19 killed an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) member and detained four others believed to have been planning a bomb attack, local authorities have said.