Celle / AFP A teenage girl went on trial in Germany on Thursday for stabbing a police officer, an assault allegedly “ordered” by the IS organisation but which was not claimed by the extremist group. The court in the northern city of Celle ruled at the start of the proceedings against Safia S., 16, that they would take place …

  Nawaran/AFP Kurdish forces launched a major assault on Thursday on a town held by the IS group near Mosul, opening a new front in the offensive to wrest back the extremists’ last Iraqi bastion. Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi told an international meeting in Paris that the offensive was “advancing faster than expected” as it entered its fourth day. France …

  Jakarta / AFP Indonesian police shot dead a man carrying knives and suspected pipe bombs after he launched a daylight assault on officers near Jakarta on Thursday, an official said, in an attack later claimed by the IS group. The man was shot three times as he stabbed wildly at officers on a busy intersection in Tangerang, a satellite …