Why US foreign policy is like ‘smoking without inhaling’
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.
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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?
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”.
Home Secretary Theresa May is poised to bring in new laws to prevent the spread of extremism, in the wake of the murder of journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants.
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 number of people to die in Syria has risen to over 191,000 in three years, but the conflict has “dropped off the international radar”, says the United Nations commissioner.
David Cameron will return to Cornwall later after interrupting his holiday over events in Iraq. Who is in charge while he is away from Downing Street?
Islamic State is distributing a document seen by Channel 4 News which explains how to avoid being excluded from social media.
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”.
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.
A plumber, teacher and vet… It reads like the start of a joke but actually it is a list of the day jobs juggled alongside sporting glory by the World Cup-winning England women’s rugby team.
The wife of a Muslim convert who went to fight in Syria is convicted of arranging for a friend to smuggle 20,0000 euros to him in her underwear.
There are so many different power blocs and interest groups in Iraq and Syria that it is almost impossible to predict where events might lead.
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.
Another young British Muslim has reportedly been killed fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, after an apparently normal life in the UK.
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.