Paris attacks: Middle East's wars arrive in Europe
We have arrived at a crossroads. Few can have believed that the bloody killings of Charlie Hebdo’s staff would be the end of it.
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The so-called Islamic State has shown itself capable of striking civilian targets in western Europe. But is the terror group on the back foot in its heartlands of Iraq and Syria?
We have arrived at a crossroads. Few can have believed that the bloody killings of Charlie Hebdo’s staff would be the end of it.
In the summer of 2014, President Obama was trying to stick to his plan to stay out of war in the Middle East. He was the guy who brings soldiers home. That’s what he’d promised. But after the Islamic State group attack on the Yazidis in Iraq, and the ensuing images of people being hauled…
As the number of countries embroiled in the Syria conflict rises, it is easy to think the situation could well spiral out of control.
Sir John Chilcot, who heads the much-delayed inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war, has consistently turned down extra help to speed up proceedings, says the cabinet secretary.
At least 100 people are killed by a suicide bomb blast in a town just 20 miles from Iraq’s capital Baghdad. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Helly Luv sings for peace in the Kurdish conflict against Islamic State, but her music videos are rife with weapons and images of war – so how does she reconcile the two?
David Cameron says there is a danger from people who “quietly condone” groups such as Islamic State. The prime minister made the comments at a security conference in Bratislava, Slovakia.
There’s an update from Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry – but you may feel it doesn’t shed much light…
The Iraqi government begins a counter-offensive against the Islamic State group after its fighters capture the city of Ramadi.
It has been a bad week for the American-led “strategy” against militants from so-called Islamic State – a strategy with the US president himself views with great qualms and some reluctance.
Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq, in the latest advance by the jihadist group against Bashar al-Assad’s struggling military.
Graffiti sprayed last year on the ruins of Cyrene, in Libya, reads: “Destroy the Idols”. Islamists, including Islamic State militants, see such pre-Islamic structures as sacrilege.
Iraq’s armed forces, backed by Shia militia, begin a a campaign aimed at driving Islamic State militants out of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.
The Ukip leader travelled to Washington to speak at right-wing conference CPAC – but was placed bottom of the bill, after most of the delegates had left.