Monday at midnight: will we see nuclear peace in our time?
Will a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme lead to rapprochement between the US and the Islamic state after 35 years of enmity?
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A parliamentary inquiry slates a US internet company for failing to help prevent the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. But is Facebook being blamed for intelligence service failures?
Former British soldiers are reportedly in northern Syria battling the Islamic State group alongside Kurdish fighters – but who are they? And what happens when they come back?
Will a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme lead to rapprochement between the US and the Islamic state after 35 years of enmity?
With reported sightings in three continents in a matter of months, the story of Samantha Lewthwaite – the widow of 7/7 London bomber Germaine Lindsay – is becoming absurd.
Elite US soldier Robert O’Neill has been “unmasked” as the man who shot the 9/11 mastermind – but does his desire for recognition threaten the future of special forces?
Members of the US navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden at his hideout in 2011 are making conflicting claims about who actually shot the al-Qaeda leader.
Terrorist kidnapping and extortion is now a multi-million pound industry, according to a UN report – and the average value of a foreign hostage is £1.7m.
At least half of Aleppo’s Armenians have left the country. Once again, their community is divided and endangered. And once again, they regard Turkey as the chief cause of their problems.
Driving to Aleppo, the Springsteen song My City of Ruins began to play in my head. But Aleppo is nowhere near rising up – and it may yet have further to fall.
More than 2,000 Syrian Kurds are evacuating the Kurdish town of Kobani, near the border between Syria and Turkey, as Islamic State militants advance towards the city centre.
The Pakistani Taliban is reported to have pledged to send fighters to support the Islamic State group in the fight against the “enemies who are united against you”.
David Cameron becomes the first world leader to meet Afghanistan’s new president following an unannounced visit to the country.
The Home Secretary warns that if they are not disrupted, the Islamic State group could acquire weapons of mass destruction – but has that threat been ‘sexed up’?
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.
British Tornado fighter jets fly into Iraq ready to carry out air strikes against the Islamic State group, but the Ministry of Defence says no targets were hit in the first approved combat operation.