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After plane crash, pressure grows for ground troops to be used against IS
Expect Gen Dempsey and many other voices to grow louder in the coming weeks that more must be done with ground forces if IS is to be dislodged.
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A 25-year-old woman has been arrested at Luton airport on suspicion of Syria-related terror offences.
In Britain, 2014 was the year of the floods, Ukraine saw a revolution, Scotland almost went indy and the deadly Ebola struck west Africa.
A teenager sent to carry out a suicide bombing by Islamic State is being paraded by Iraqi officials after he refused to detonate the device.
A Jordanian jet fighter pilot is taken prisoner by the Islamic State after his plane crashed, but the US dispels claims from the militants they shot it down.
Expect Gen Dempsey and many other voices to grow louder in the coming weeks that more must be done with ground forces if IS is to be dislodged.
Some soldiers have criticised moves to allow women into close combat roles in the British Army. But women are already on the front line around the world.
Kurdish peshmerga forces fight back Islamic State militants from Mount Sinjar on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, freeing hundreds of Yazidis trapped by IS.
Nearly 15,000 people attend Dresden’s latest march against “Islamisation of the west” – is the movement driven by the middle classes, as claimed – or are there more sinister forces at work?
The deliberate targeting of so many children has caused outrage across the world. And it’s part of an increasing – and horrifying – trend.
Vladimir Putin is still riding high in the polls as the president who has defied the interfering west and resurrected Russia’s glory. But for how much longer?
The cry is up – if you have a conscience, if you care about your country’s integrity and decency, you guys, start leaking!
Non-radical, middle-class Germans are in the majority as thousands of people take part in a march in Dresden against “Islamisation of the west”.
The hostage taking in Sydney by a man bearing an Islamist flag is just the latest terror attack to threaten Australia. Propaganda by Islamic State is one of the factors being blamed by experts.
Supporters of pro-Islamic State tweeter take to Twitter in their hundreds to demand the release of a man arrested after a Channel 4 News investigation.
Indian police arrest a man suspected of operating the most influential pro-IS Twitter account, following a Channel 4 News investigation.