Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine: what happens next in a world without framework?
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
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What message should imams give young British Muslims who want to travel to Syria for jihad? This was the debate at Birmingham Central Mosque by a group of scholars and counter-terrorism unit officers.
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
US Secretary of State John Kerry says the US will not delay in helping Iraq defeat the Isis insurgency.
Sunni insurgents led by al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), capture three towns in Iraq’s western Anbar province, security sources claim.
A car bomb in Syria’s western Hama province kills 34 and wounds more than 50, Syria’s state news agency SANA reports.
In the UK for a three-day visit, Premier Li failed to kill off his ambassador’s insult suggesting Britain was behind Germany and France in Beijing’s estimation.
They have been called state sponsors of terrorism – but now the United States is considering working together with Iran, as both countries try to stop Iraq disintegrating into chaos.
The scale of the crisis in Iraq has led many to wonder what was once unpalatable: would the country be more stable if Saddam Hussein had remained in power?
Violent insurgency in Iraq is the “predictable” result of the west’s failure to intervene in Syria, not of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair declares in a renewed call for military action.
Grinning from ear to ear, Syrian extremist rebel commander Abu Omar al-Shishani climbs out of a US-made Humvee – freshly delivered from Iraq where his extremist group is making gains.
Barack Obama pulled American troops out of Iraq more than two years ago – but Washington is being pulled back into a war that Obama thought he had already brought to a close.
Islamist militant group Isis makes further gains in Iraq, seizing Tikrit – the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein – 95 miles north of Baghdad.
Islamic militants take control of Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, prompting the country’s prime minister to call for a state of emergency to be declared.
Ireland has been rocked this week as another horrific scandal linked to the Catholic church emerges in Galway, where a mass grave with the bodies of 800 children was uncovered.
Writing about Syria’s election gives it a legitimacy it does not deserve. But the Syrians who vote are mourning the loss of the regime they once knew.