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Syria airstrikes? Obama’s buddies rush for the exit…
When the leader of the free world declares his country is going to war you’d hope his international partners might be reliable. At least for 24 hours. Just to be polite.
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World leaders back military measures to help defeat Islamic State fighters in Iraq – but make no mention of the tougher diplomatic challenge in Syria.
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.
The brother of the British man who was murdered by Islamic state militants says his life was about love, not hatred.
When the leader of the free world declares his country is going to war you’d hope his international partners might be reliable. At least for 24 hours. Just to be polite.
President Barack Obama approves air strikes in Syria for the first time in an attempt to tackle the threat of Islamic State militant. He said it was counter-terrorism, but it sounds a lot like war.
The UK arm of Kurdish guerrilla army the PKK, proscribed by the Home Office as a terrorist organisation, has had a resurgence since its war with IS. Is it time to de-list and arm them?
Barack Obama says he will outline a plan to defeat Islamic State extremists later this week, as pro-Iraqi forces say US air strikes wiped out IS fighters targeting the strategic Haditha Dam.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby deplores the lack of a global strategy from world leaders for what he said could not be understood as a local problem.
The parents of Aqsa Mahmood make a heartfelt plea for their daughter to return home, after the 20-year-old from Glasgow travelled to Syria to join Islamic State fighters.
The prime minister is set to announce new measures in the House of Commons to counter the threat from the Islamic State, amid tense negotiations between the two coalition parties.
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?
If the lives of UK women, and especially lesbian women, are very different now, there’s a very contemporary relevance to Waters’ reflections on the futility of war and the terrible toll it exacted.
By calling themselves Islamic State, the killers of James Foley have created a lie since they are neither a state nor very Islamic.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond calls the murder of US journalist James Foley by a suspected Briton an “utter betrayal”, but expects the struggle against extremism to last “a generation”.