BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have slipped into Europe disguised as refugees, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said on Friday, a day after security forces thwarted a potential IS attack in Berlin.

BBC - Senior commanders from so-called Islamic State (IS) have moved to Libya from Iraq and Syria recently, a top Libyan intelligence official says.

Euronews - The Islamist extremist group ISIL has posted a video on the internet making an apparent threat to attack Britain. The unverified footage contains images of UK MPs backing airstrikes in Syria.

Euronews - ISIL is said to have kidnapped 400 civilians in an attack on a city in eastern Syria.

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s president ordered police on Wednesday to step up surveillance after at least a dozen people went missing and are believed to have joined a little known group that authorities have described as radical and dangerous.

Euronews - At least 15 people, including 12 police officers, are said to have died as a suspected suicide bomber struck outside a polio vaccination centre in Pakistan.

Euronews - At least 10 people have been killed and 15 wounded in a blast in the centre of Turkey’s most populous city Istanbul, the authorities say.

Euronews - Belgian police have arrested two men suspected of plotting attacks in Brussels on New Year’s Eve.

The German parliament has voted to support the coalition conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Syria.