Iraq: why this isn’t 2003 all over again
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
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The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani gives his view on how to tackle Islamic extremism in the Middle East – and tweets most of it as he does so.
When President Obama announced that US and Arab warplanes had begun strikes against IS in Syria, he also said the US strikes had targeted the little-known Khorasan group. But who are they?
As US and Arab warplanes strike Islamic State forces inside Syria, will the UK recall parliament to vote on the issue of British involvement, one year after Labour scuppered action against Assad?
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.
Isis is urging followers to carry out public beheadings, says Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. How did the country become a target and how do counter-terrorism officials respond?
The US carries out its first air strike against Islamic State (IS) militants under a new strategy to defeat the group in Iraq.
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.
It began as an offshoot of Al-Qaeda barely 18 months ago. Now Islamic State are more successful than Al-Qaeda ever were, with over 10,000 men under their command – and a self -declared caliphate in which to fight.
Murder, torture and rape – a UN report catalogues the “unimaginable” horrors being heaped upon the people of Syria by the government, rebel groups and the Islamic State.
US officials confirm that an American believed to be fighting with extremists in Syria has been killed, reportedly by the Free Syrian Army.
Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.
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”.
To America, the Middle East is like a balloon. If you squeeze it in one corner it will bulge in another. You just can’t be sure where.
The gruesome video of the murder of journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants is a terrorist publication say UK police, and those viewing or sharing it risk prosecution.