Islamic State

The ISIS affiliate abducted the girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014, and most are still missing. The case spurred international outrage and prompted the "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.

Eighteen months after British schoolgirl Kadiza Sultana ran away from home to join the Islamic State militant group, her family lawyer says they've received word she has died in Syria.

The measures would allow Germany to fast-track deportations for foreigners deemed dangerous and would strip German citizenship from dual-citizens who fight for extremist groups abroad.

Two years ago, "to many observers, ISIL looked invincible," Obama said at the Pentagon on Thursday. But now: "ISIL turns out not to be invincible, they're in fact inevitably going to be defeated."

Cracks are forming at the highest levels of the Nigeria-based extremist group. The Islamic State has named a new leader and a new strategy for the group, but the old leader says he's still in charge.

"I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists," the pope said during a flight from Poland to Italy.

The Pentagon announced it had attacked targets around the ISIS-occupied city of Sirte at the request of the U.N.-backed Libyan Government of National Accord.

Two men attacked a church near Rouen during Tuesday Mass, killing an elderly priest before being shot to death by police. One of the assailants had tried to travel to Syria and was under surveillance.