A video released late on Saturday appears to show the execution of Japanese reporter Kenji Goto by a fighter of the Islamic State group.
Several thousand people have managed to escape – some taking up to 10 days to get out – but other civilians are still trapped in Sirte, which continues to be bombed by Nato aircraft and shelled by fighters of the new government.
The book's leading man, James More, is a British spy who is taken captive by jihadi fighters of Al Shabab.
It is defended by the fighters of the YPG Kurdish militia who are the Syrian branch of the mainly Turkish Kurd PKK which the US labels as "terrorist".
The local militants in Swat are led by Maulana Fazlullah, a charismatic Islamic cleric, and are fortified by Islamic fighters of Uzbek, Tajik and Chechen origin, residents say.
Among the armed groups, the Mai Mai fighters were the main perpetrators of human rights (285 violations), followed by the fighters of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) (157 violations).
Ambushed by fighters of the Mahdi army, the soldiers of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment attacked with everything they had, from bayonets to tank shells.
The war in Aceh has gone on since 1976, when an insurgency led by fighters of the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM, demanded independence for the province.
Tel al-Karama is the hometown of Firas al-Abseh, known as Abu Muhammad, a Syrian Islamic extremist killed last week by fighters of the Farouq al-Shamal Brigade, which is part of a large rebel group based in Homs province.
Heavy clashes were reported from Baquba after it was taken over by fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), and in Baghdad eight people were killed by a suicide bomber.
