Armed extremists went door to door in Mpeketoni on June 16, trying to find out if men inside the houses were Muslim and spoke Somali. If they did not receive the desired responses, they opened fire.

As ISIS continues to carry out mass murders of innocent civilians across Iraq, the United Nations has said it is extremely alarmed by the extrajudicial killings and summary executions carried out by the al-Qaeda-linked militants.

Fears for the fate of 223 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish after the leader of the Islamist militant group that abducted them announced plans to sell them.

On December 29 and again on December 30, suicide bombers in Volgograd, Russia detonated bombs killing a total of at least 31 people.