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Ukraine and Islamic State crises give Nato new purpose
The threats from Islamic State and the Russian intervention in Ukraine have changed the mood at the Nato summit as leaders face a dangerous new world reality.
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Home Secretary Theresa May says Britain “must act to destroy” the Islamic State group. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, she added: “They are not Islamic and they are not a state.”
Islamic State group militants are said to be just one mile away from Baghdad – despite Iraqi ground forces holding them back in a key town near the city.
Britain could recall of parliament to discuss military action in the Middle East after David Cameron warns the fight against Islamic State was one the UK “could not opt out of”.
Turkey closes some of its border crossings with Syria following an influx of more than 100,000 Kurdish refugees in two days, fleeing an advance by the Islamic State.
The kidnap and threatened murder of British aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State (IS) militants is not permissible under sharia law, prominent Muslim clerics have warned.
The US carries out its first air strike against Islamic State (IS) militants under a new strategy to defeat the group in Iraq.
The second British hostage held by Islamic State militants is named as Alan Henning by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The UK will take whatever steps are necessary to combat the Islamic militants responsible for the murder of British aid worker David Haines, the Prime Minister David Cameron says.
Islamic State releases a slick new propaganda video showing the massacre of Bashar al-Assad’s 93rd brigade in Raqqa in August.
The threats from Islamic State and the Russian intervention in Ukraine have changed the mood at the Nato summit as leaders face a dangerous new world reality.
As the UK weighs up joining the US in airstrikes targeting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Iraq’s government says that an airstrike has killed the right-hand man of the leader of IS.
Amid the rise of and widespread exhibition of the vile inhumanity of the Islamic State, has been the tender opening of dialogue between two vast regional enemies – Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The US will not be intimidated by Islamic State militants, President Obama says, after the White House confirmed that a video showing the beheading of a US journalist was authentic.
Islamic State militants release a video apparently showing the beheading of US hostage Steven Sotloff – just days after the killing of American journalist James Foley.
Iraqi security forces and Shi’ite militia fighters have broken the siege on the town of Amerli, in the north of Iraq.