With monikers as divergent as the “Professor” and the “Destroyer”, the Islamic State group’s new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma.

A whistle-blower has claimed that he earned tens of thousands of euros from Qatar for hiding a dossier that documented the country’s support for Hezbollah.

Israel is investigating the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem over suspected terrorism, in the first such allegation against the often-arrested leader, his lawyer said Monday.