1. Iraq steps up the fight against Daesh terrorists. Kurdish fighters take control of the centre of the northern town of Sinjar as government forces advance on the western city of Ramadi.
2. A bomb blast kills at least 18 people and injures more than 40 others in Iraq’s capital.
3. At least 9 Palestinians are injured, one of them critically, after Israeli troops open fire on angry protesters in the occupied West Bank.