‘Out on the mountain right now, it is genocide’
From everyone here, tales of how the IS come into your town or village and offer you the chance to convert to Islam, get out of town and your home – or be killed by bullet or beheading.
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Holding up severed heads, carrying guns and declaring that non-believers will be “butchered” – Channel 4 News examines what life is like for children in the Islamic State.
Watch the dramatic scenes as a military helicopter rescues Yazidis fleeing Islamic State forces in northern Iraq. Report by Jonathan Rugman, filming by Philippa Collins.
Another young British Muslim has reportedly been killed fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, after an apparently normal life in the UK.
From everyone here, tales of how the IS come into your town or village and offer you the chance to convert to Islam, get out of town and your home – or be killed by bullet or beheading.
US President Barack Obama authorizes targeted air strikes in Iraq to prevent an ‘act of genocide’ against some 40,000 religious minorities trapped in a remote mountain area.
As the US announces it has launched two more airstrikes on Islamic State forces on Friday, there are reports that the religious extremists in Iraq have taken 500 women captive.
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
You don’t expect LOL moments from Isis – the extremists who declared an Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. But the group’s propaganda message is not all about death and jihad.
Now 103, the last survivor of the German army’s most notorious WWI war crime remembers her father’s words: “If you don’t obey, the Germans will kill you.”
Militants from the Islamic State have embarked on a campaign of religious destruction in the “caliphate”, erasing shrines and mosques connected to the Shia Muslim and Christian faiths.
Europeans may think WWI is history, but people in the Arab world are still living with the fury and violence the conflict caused.
A letter from a Tory MP to the foreign secretary, seen by Channel 4 News, shows the first signs of serious unease emerging in Conservative ranks about the government’s stance on the conflict in Gaza.
“Why the world hate Israel?” the soldier whispered. There was genuine confusion in his eyes. He whispered again: “Why the world hate us?”
As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.
Islamic State, which controls of a third of Iraq, orders all girls and women in and around Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the UN says – but there are claims the edict is a hoax.