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The US military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday that three members of the Islamic State group had been captured by US forces during a helicopter and ground raid in eastern Syria. The terrorists, according to CENTCOM, were arrested a day earlier and were identified as logisticians, facilitators, and "associates" of the jihadist group. According to a statement from CENTCOM, a civilian suffered "minimal injuries" and was transferred to a hospital. An international coalition led by Washington is combating IS in Syria.

Allison Fluke-Ekren—a 42-year-old woman from Kansas, US, who led an all-female battalion of the Islamic State terrorist group—has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. A federal courtroom gave the sentence in Alexandria, Virginia on Tuesday. First Assistant US Attorney Raj Parekh described Fluke-Ekren, a former teacher, as the “Empress of ISIS” who “brainwashed young girls” in a mission to create the all-female battalion, reports CNN. “She became a warped visionary for ISIS… She was attracted to death and destruction,” Parekh said.

A woman from the United States who was raised on a farm in Kansas, converted to Islam, and then joined the Islamic State in Syria, where she oversaw an all-female combat unit, is scheduled to get her sentence on Tuesday for aiding a foreign terrorist organisation. After pleading guilty to terrorism-related charges in June in a US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, now faces up to 20 years in prison.

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Islamic State (IS) terror group was present in the north of the country, saying it was "baseless", the media reported. Addressing a virtual summit of the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS) on Friday, Putin said that Russian data has revealed that 2,000 IS fighters are in the north of Afghanistan, TOLO News reported.