Pakistan's military has killed a senior member of militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi(LeJ) along with two suicide bombers in a raid in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, the army's media wing said.

Three suicide bombers killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner said on Saturday.

Two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 56, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State in the country.

Two suicide bombers detonated a car packed with explosives in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Tuesday, killing at least six people, witnesses said.

A French prosecutor said on Sunday that a man arrested last week after a police raid on a flat near Paris had a direct connection with Islamic State.

Wearing military uniforms and armed with grenades, three attackers entered the facility in Samarra, said General Qassem al-Tamimi, head of a police unit charged with protecting vital installations.

Islamic State group suicide bombers killed seven members of Iraq's security forces in an attack on an Iraqi police and army base Wednesday in Baiji, north of Baghdad, the interior ministry and a local official said.

The French parliament on Thursday voted to extend the state of emergency until November 1, a measure first imposed after Islamist suicide bombers and gunmen killed 130 people in coordinated attacks on Paris in late 2015.

Three girls recruited as suicide bombers were killed in Cameroon on Saturday, a military officer said.

Two suicide bombers attacked a celebration being held the night before a wedding north of Baghdad, killing 26 people, a police officer and a doctor said on Thursday.

Five people were killed on Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said, with the Taliban claiming the assault as the latest in a fresh offensive.

Saudi security forces have arrested 13 Pakistanis and three Saudis suspected of having links to jihadists who blew themselves up during a weekend firefight with police, authorities said on Tuesday.