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Islamic State: how western policy is scrambling to catch up
Some say the US and Europe should, while holding their noses, embrace Assad. That may not only be distasteful but also self-defeating: Assad has engineered this situation.
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A laptop with details of how to build a dirty bomb has been found in Syria. One expert tells Channel 4 News that such an attack could be “easier than flying a plane into a tall building”.
David Cameron says the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists is “a deeper threat than we have faced before”, as the UK’s terror rating is raised to its highest level in three years.
As the Islamic State seizes Tabqa airbase in Syria, it kicks the Syrian government’s army out of the north east of the country and seizes a cache of advanced weapons.
The UN human rights chief says Islamic State’s actions in Iraq and Syria are “appalling and widespread” and may contribute to “war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
Islamic State is distributing a document seen by Channel 4 News which explains how to avoid being excluded from social media.
Extremist group the Islamic State may claim ancient roots, but its barbaric actions and propaganda machine have made it the most searched for and tweeted about terror group on the modern web.
Last week, we spoke Abu Rumauysah about British citizens who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State. During the interview, we challenged him on the use of beheading videos by IS.
Islamic State, the jihadi group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria, releases a video showing missing US journalist James Foley being beheaded – in what it calls a “message to America”.
Some say the US and Europe should, while holding their noses, embrace Assad. That may not only be distasteful but also self-defeating: Assad has engineered this situation.
The human tragedy of refugees fleeing Mosul includes a new mother and a pregnant woman frightened of what will happen when her baby comes, writes Anna-Lisa Fuglesang in Irbil.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari tells Channel 4 News friends of the country should support its battle against the Islamic State by carrying out air strikes against the militants.
Radical Muslims are demanding the security services allow them to leave Britain to live under Sharia law in parts of Syria and Iraq controlled by the Islamic State, so why can’t they leave?
Islamic State Twitter accounts report a major victory in Syria, bringing the jihadist group closer to the Turkish border – and an ancient town associated with the countdown to Armageddon.
The west’s actions in Iraq have a dual agenda, says International Editor Lindsey Hilsum: one, to protect the people threatened by the Islamic State, the other to safeguard American interests.
Holding up severed heads, carrying guns and declaring that non-believers will be “butchered” – Channel 4 News examines what life is like for children in the Islamic State.