Islamic State: how western policy is scrambling to catch up
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.
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Last week, we spoke Abu Rumauysah about British citizens who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State. During the interview, we challenged him on the use of beheading videos by IS.
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”.
Islamic State, the jihadi group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria, releases a video showing missing US journalist James Foley being beheaded – in what it calls a “message to America”.
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.
Police use tear gas against protesters and make 31 arrests in another night of violence in Ferguson, Missouri, as President Obama sends the attorney general to meet with investigators.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis have fled for their lives from Islamic State fighters through the northern Iraqi desert – Kurdish photojournalist Zmnako Ismael recorded their perilous journey.
The human tragedy of refugees fleeing Mosul includes a new mother and a pregnant woman frightened of what will happen when her baby comes, writes Anna-Lisa Fuglesang in Irbil.
The advance of Islamic State extremists poses a “clear danger” to the future safety of Britain’s streets, David Cameron says as he explains his decision to arm Kurdish fighters.
Radical Muslims are demanding the security services allow them to leave Britain to live under Sharia law in parts of Syria and Iraq controlled by the Islamic State, so why can’t they leave?
The Sinjar mountain range is over 45 miles long. Are the Americans saying that the refugees are not spread out any more but have been moved into a concentrated area where they can be counted?
President Obama says a mission to rescue trapped Yazidi refugees from Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq is no longer necessary as aid drops have allowed thousands to escape the militant threat.
It appears there are fewer civilians trapped on Mount Sinjar than previously feared, and Channel 4 hears they may be intending to stay there. So where have thousands of other displaced Yazidis gone?
Heirs to a fascinating and idiosnycratic religion, the Yazidi community of Iraq has faced countless attempts at oppression, but its current plight could be the most dangerous yet.
Islamic State Twitter accounts report a major victory in Syria, bringing the jihadist group closer to the Turkish border – and an ancient town associated with the countdown to Armageddon.
The west’s actions in Iraq have a dual agenda, says International Editor Lindsey Hilsum: one, to protect the people threatened by the Islamic State, the other to safeguard American interests.