More than 10,000 jihadists have been killed in air strikes against the Islamic State group over a nine-month coalition campaign, U.S. deputy secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.

"We have seen enormous losses from Daesh (IS), more than 10,000 since the beginning of the campaign and this will end up having an impact," Blinken told French radio, without specifying whether the losses were in Iraq or Syria.

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen said Wednesday she had left her home in India for the United States after receiving death threats from Islamists behind the recent murders of atheist bloggers in her home country.

Nasreen, who fled to Europe in 1994 after protests against her work by Muslim extremists and who now lives in New Delhi, tweeted that she did not feel safe in the Indian capital.

From hit and run attacks and massacres to a shopping trip, Somali-led Shebab militants are on the march in northeastern Kenya.

With large numbers of troops in southern Somalia but seemingly unable to effectively police its own outer regions, Kenya must react quickly to stop the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists from gaining significant ground and finding a new generation of recruits, Western security officials say.

U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that Israel risks losing "credibility" over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stance on the creation of a Palestinian state.

Obama made the comments to an Israeli television station in response to a question about Netanyahu's comments regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state before and after March elections.

Protesters in Burundi once again defied police on Tuesday as they began a 38th day of demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to run for a controversial third term.

Police fired live rounds and tear gas to break up groups of demonstrators trying to gather in the three hotspot neighborhoods of Cibitoke, Musaga and Nyakabiga in the capital Bujumbura, AFP correspondents said.

Two major newspapers are now counting the number of people killed by police in the United States, as the debate over the use of deadly force by officers, especially against minorities, rages on.

More than two people were killed by police each day, and most were black or Hispanic, according to lists compiled by The Washington Post and The Guardian.

Muslim Rohingya women who were held at human-trafficking camps in Thailand and Malaysia were subjected to gang rapes by their captors, assaults that left at least two of them pregnant, a Malaysian media report said.

Malaysia's state-run Bernama news agency quoted a Rohingya survivor of the camps, Nur Khaidha Abdul Shukur, as saying young women would be taken away nightly from the jungle post where she was held near Padang Besar in Thailand.

The U.S. military released a video Monday of a Russian Su-24 bomber flying past an American warship in the Black Sea to dispel what it called inaccurate media reports about a routine encounter.

In the video, a Su-24 aircraft appears in the distance, then zooms by the USS Ross -- a guided-missile destroyer. 

Israel on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" a UN decision to recognize a London-based Palestinian non-governmental organisation it says is affiliated with the militant Islamist Hamas movement.

In a decision late on Monday, the UN committee on non-governmental organisations voted in favor of recognizing the Palestinian Return Center (PRC) as a permanent NGO with access to the world body's many forums.

A U.S. drone strike Monday killed at least four militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.

The strike took place in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, where the Pakistani military has been battling militants linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida since June.