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Flooding from heavy rainfall swept through a remote village in northeast Afghanistan, killing 10 members of a single family.

A common enemy -- the Islamic State extremist group -- has emerged as the catalyst for closer ties between Russia and the Taliban in the fight against terrorism. And to move the relationship to a new level, Russia says it plans to de-list the Taliban itself from its terror blacklist.

Russian politicians, pro-Kremlin pundits and media, and online voices and bots have fed the notion that the attempt by the suspected gunmen involved in the Moscow attack to flee to Ukraine cast doubt on whether they were really members of Islamic State.

A person calling himself "the Canadian" who writes propaganda for an Afghan branch of ISIS claims to be based somewhere in Canada, which, experts say, could be cause for concern for authorities.

ISIS could "attack U.S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning," said CENTCOM's head.