Fresh fighting erupted in Libya’s second city Wednesday, bringing the death toll in three days of violence between pro-government militias and Islamist fighters to more than 30, officials said.

Leader of Nigeria’s militant Boko Haram group has announced that a town in the north east of Nigeria seized by the insurgents earlier this month has been placed under the self-claimed “Islamic caliphate” known as ISIL or ISIS.

Millions of Muslims will celebrate the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday, June 29, while some Muslim countries and minorities will observe the dawn-to-dusk month a day earlier.

Remarkable pictures from the Saudi Arabian funeral of a student murdered in the UK have emerged on social media, showing hundreds of grief-stricken mourners.

Twin car bombs that exploded at a crowded bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos have killed at least 118 people, the country’s emergency agency said.

Forces apparently loyal to a renegade Libyan general said they had attacked parliament and suspended its activities, directly challenging the legitimacy of the country’s central government.

Nigeria’s government has said it is ready to hold talks with Boko Haram to secure the release of more than 200 girls abducted from their school last month.

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, the top religious authority in the birthplace of Islam, has condemned Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a group “set up to smear the image of Islam” and condemned its kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls.

A Boko Haram attack has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, multiple sources have said, as police offered $300,000 for information leading to the rescue of more than 200 schoolgirls held hostage by the armed group.

Nigeria’s President has appealed for international help to find, and ensure the release of, 276 schoolgirls abducted by suspected Boko Haram fighters, amid criticism over government inaction.