Gary Gibbon
Commons to vote on Iraq IS attacks on Friday
Seeking parliamentary approval before military action has brought in a new era that inhibits prime ministers in a way that would be unthinkable to their predecessors.
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Gary Gibbon
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Britain prepares to join fight against Islamic State in Iraq
Britain could recall of parliament to discuss military action in the Middle East after David Cameron warns the fight against Islamic State was one the UK “could not opt out of”.
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Air strikes in Syria hit Khorasan group – but who are they?
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?
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Kylie Morris
US air strikes: Obama lured into Syria’s civil war
The expansion of the US-led air war to Syria is a powerful display of America’s bona fides to the allies it says it needs for the fight against Islamic State.
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Kylie Morris
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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Will Britain join the air strikes campaign against IS?
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?
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US air strikes in Syria – Q&A
In the early hours of the morning, US air strikes targeted Islamic State and other Islamist groups in Syria for the first time. Channel 4 News asks whether it is legal, and where it might end.
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Muslim leaders condemn Islamic State’s Alan Henning threats
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.
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Gary Gibbon
Salmond snaps back at ‘Black Wednesday’ scares
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.
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Syrian government continues ‘horrific chemical attacks’
Syria’s government is continuing to use chemical weapons in its war against rebels and jihadist groups, a new OPCW report finds.
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How British Kurds are heading to fight IS
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?
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Jon Snow
Islamic State turning old enemies into new allies
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.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Ukraine: lessons Putin must learn from Russian invasion of Afghanistan
President Putin seems confident as he says one thing and does another – denying Russian soldiers have crossed the border despite overwhelming evidence is classic Soviet doublespeak.
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The ‘immeasurable suffering’ of the Syrian people
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.
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What weapons has Islamic State seized at Tabqa?
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.
