The Fourth High Criminal Court in Bahrain has sentenced to 3 years in prison three defendants from one family who joined the terrorist ISIS organization.

Iraq has begun court proceedings against 14 suspected French members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group captured by U.S.-backed forces and transferred to Iraq from Syria last month, two legal sources said.

Nawaf and Hassan both left their homelands to live under the Islamic State group, but now sitting in a police station in northeast Syria they insist they did nothing wrong.

Sputnik Russian News Agency reported that a leader in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) described Bahraini Interior Minister�s statements as fake and false accusations.

A delegation from the Bahraini House of Representatives visited the Republic of Iraq in an official visit, during which it met Iraqi President Fuad Masum, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari and Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim Al-Jabouri.

The High Court of Appeal (December 13, 2017) upheld on Wednesday a 10-year prison term for a member of the ISIS group, also revoking his nationality.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest political group in Bahrain, condemned the terrorist attack on a mosque in the Egyptian region of Al-Arish that was launched during Friday prayers on November 24, 2017, describing it as "perfidious " attack.

Iraqi forces said Friday that Islamic State group fighters are withdrawing deep into the desert to escape an offensive aimed at a final defeat of the jihadists.

Syria�s army declared victory over Islamic State on Thursday, saying its capture of the jihadists� last town in the country marked the collapse of their three-year, hardline reign in the in the region.

An Iraqi Shi�ite militia fighting Islamic State in Iraq near the border with Syria will also take on the jihadist group in the Syria border town of Albu Kamal, the militia�s spokesman was quoted as saying on Friday.

The American CNN channel aired an interview with one of ISIS members in the Syria�s Al-Raqqa, who turned himself over to the Syrian Democratic Forces that took control over ISIS stronghold last week.