Officials say an explosion near a courthouse in Turkey’s Aegean coastal city of Izmir was caused by a car bomb.

ISIL says it was behind the New Year’s Day mass shooting in a crowded nightclub in Istanbul in which 39 people died.

Authorities in France have arrested seven men and say they have foiled a terror plot which was ‘‘envisaged for some time.’‘

A man suspected of planning a major terrorist attack in Germany has appeared in court in Dresden.

The main suspect arrested in connection with the inquiry into the discovery of a car packed with gas canisters in central Paris has pledged allegiance to ISIL, according to investigators.

A court in Britain has jailed the country’s best-known radical Muslim cleric for five and a half years for urging support of ISIL .

It is back to school in France and, this time, with heightened security.

French authorities have arrested seven people on terrorism-related offences this month, at least three of whom allegedly had specific projects planned. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made the announcement during a meeting with his German counterpart in Paris.

Turkey’s president has accused followers of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being involved in the latest bombings to hit the country.

Four militants have been killed after Russian special forces stormed an apartment in St Petersburg as part of an anti-terrorism operation – according to officials.