Is UK letting migrants drown as they cross the Med?
The British government is committing one – yes, one – solitary “debriefer” to the Europe-wide effort to alleviate the worst refugee crisis in Europe since WWII.
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Shia Muslims in Pakistan, Iraq, and Lebanon take part in a self-flagellation ritual on the holy day of Ashoura. (Warning: graphic images)
David Cameron met the Emir of Qatar on Wednesday – a country that’s invested tens of billions of pounds in London – but a country that’s also accused of funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.
The British government is committing one – yes, one – solitary “debriefer” to the Europe-wide effort to alleviate the worst refugee crisis in Europe since WWII.
Another British Muslim from Portsmouth is killed fighting with Islamic State militants, in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.
Canada’s prime minister didn’t mention the shooter by name, but he did use the “T” word – he called the shooter who put Ottawa’s parliament buildings on lockdown and killed a soldier, a terrorist.
The main suspect in the Canada parliament shoot-out, in which a soldier was killed, is named by police as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, a Muslim convert with a police record.
A gunman is shot down inside Canada’s parliament building after fatally shooting a soldier guarding the National War Memorial. The city remains under lockdown as police check for more assailants.
A new hashtag is taking off on Twitter, and for once it is not One Direction related. It is #daeshbags – and it fits into an online movement ridiculing the #IslamicState group.
Ministers are talking about reviving the ancient laws of treason to deal with jihadis. What is treason and should it make a comeback?
Four men who allegedly planned a terror attack in London carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a police station and army barracks, Scotland Yard says.
Iraqi pilots are defecting and training Islamic State to fly MiG fighter planes, observers say. But how real is the prospect of an IS air force?
US President Barack Obama meets military leaders from 20 countries to tackle Islamic State in Iraq, after recent IS gains in Anbar province where an Iraqi military base was seized.
The defenders of the Syrian Kurdish town claim to have repulsed waves of attacks by Islamic State militants, as pressure grows on Turkey to intervene.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani is about to fall to Islamic State militants.
The Iraqi Yazidi MP Vian Dakhil, who wept as she exhorted the world to save her people from Islamic State militants, wins a prestigious award for her courage.