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The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, on Thursday met security chiefs to discuss horrifying photographs posted on Facebook of a Kosovo Albanian militant allegedly beheading a captive soldier in Syria.

Security bodies were tasked with “treating this threat to the security of Kosovo as as priority.

An Istanbul-based association has been shut down after being accused of using ISIL symbols and sending jihadists to Syria

An Istanbul-based Islamic charity organization that created controversy by using an insignia adopted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has shut down after allegations that it was recruiting militants for the fight in Syria.

Israel mobilised 16,000 additional reservists on July 31 to bolster its forces waging military operations in the Gaza Strip that left more than 100 Palestinians dead in a day.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to head a team including Hamas for talks in Cairo on sealing a Gaza ceasefire between the Islamist movement and Israel, an official said July 28.
      

A female suicide bomber blew herself up at a petrol station in northern Nigeria's biggest city of Kano on Monday, killing one other person, a military source said.
   
The source gave no other details about the attack. It was the third bomb attack in Kano in just 24 hours.
   

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas said July 25 it fired three rockets at Tel Aviv airport, a day after US and some European airlines had resumed flights after a two-day suspension.
      
"At 11:45 am (0845 GMT), the Qassam Brigades bombarded Ben Gurion airport with three M75 rockets," a statement from Hamas's armed wing said.
      

Islamist-led militiamen have stepped up their assault on Libya’s main airport, controlled by rival fighters, which the Health Ministry said July 21 had left at least 47 dead in a week.

The fighting, which erupted on July 13 and shut Tripoli international airport, also injured 120 people, according to figures for the week until July 19.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a U.N. request to briefly halt hostilities July 17 on humanitarian grounds, after an Israeli strike killed four Palestinian children on a beach, while efforts intensify to secure a formal truce.

The Israeli air force bombed 160 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight as it pressed a widescale campaign to stop volleys of Palestinian rocket fire, an army official said Wednesday.
      

Hamas warned Wednesday that Israel would pay for the kidnap and murder of a Palestinian teenager in annexed east Jerusalem, in suspected revenge for the murder of three Israeli teens.