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US seeks ‘bandwidth’ to deal with IS, Ebola and the Ukraine crisis
Achieving a unified approach in dealing with the threat from Islamic State is one of several challenges facing the US at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
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Achieving a unified approach in dealing with the threat from Islamic State is one of several challenges facing the US at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
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.
In Edinburgh for Alex Salmond’s press conference for international media. Judging by the applause and yes badges it’s not just media in the audience.
Syria’s government is continuing to use chemical weapons in its war against rebels and jihadist groups, a new OPCW report finds.
Islamic State releases a slick new propaganda video showing the massacre of Bashar al-Assad’s 93rd brigade in Raqqa in August.
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.
At least 500 Britons are thought to have taken up arms in Syria and Iraq, while only a dozen American-born nationals have been identified as Islamic State fighters. What is behind the difference?
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.
With America’s most senior general calling for the military offensive against Islamic State to be broadened, some are asking if our enemy’s enemy – Syria’s President Assad – should now be our friend.
State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf says that the US will not work with Assad to fight IS. “Isis has been able to grow strong in Syria in Iraq because Assad has allowed them to grow.”
In his last article before he was kidnapped, James Foley reported on the “increasingly violent” Syrian opposition, which had been “deeply infiltrated by both foreign fighters and terrorist groups”.
We don’t spend much time talking about Vietnam, other than its allure as a holiday destination. But the time has come to talk about politics in this sickle-shaped nation.
The attack on Gaza’s main hospital was the work of Hamas, says Daniel Taub, the UK’s Israeli ambassador. And he says his country wants to see nobody die – “least of all children”.
I’m on the train to New York where the UN Security Council is meeting in a few hours for an emergency session on the downing of MH17 – a session Britain has requested.
There was a reason why outgoing foreign secretary William Hague teamed up with the film star in the campaign to end warzone rape.