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Fear and loathing in Baghdad
I was in Baghdad in 2003, filming “shock and awe”. Despite the violence, it was a time of hope. But now the Iraqi capital is riven by terrorism and state-sponsored violence.
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Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, regarded as the most influential voice in Salafist Islam, forcefully rejects the Islamic State’s declaration of a new caliphate and brands them a “deviant group”.
Osama bin Laden’s dream is declared a reality, as the Islamic caliphate is announced by the militants of Isis today, who also demand all other jihadi groups pledge allegiance.
I was in Baghdad in 2003, filming “shock and awe”. Despite the violence, it was a time of hope. But now the Iraqi capital is riven by terrorism and state-sponsored violence.
With Jean-Claude Juncker confirmed as European Commission president, he is attracting attention – from claims about his drinking to a spying scandal that drove him from office.
Radical cleric Abu Qatada is acquitted of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism – but the verdict has not been seen as a surprise in Jordan.
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
The Foreign Secretary William Hague tries to persuade Iraqi political leaders to form an inclusive government to fight Isis, who control much of the north of the country.
It was all too easy to imagine the carnage and devastation if the extremists of Isis try to carry out their threat to attack the most holy place in Shia Islam.
The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog tells Channel 4 News it is an “open question” if hidden chemical weapons remain in Syria, two days after the last shipment was supposed to have left.
A man who claims to have been friends with one of the ‘Isis Britons’, Abdul Raqib Amin, tells Channel 4 News that he was “obsessed with jihad”.
Paraic O’Brien confronts the Saudi cleric who spoke at the al-Manar centre in Cardiff, where one of the ‘British jihadis’ worshipped.
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.
A man who claims to have known one of the Britons featured in a promotional video for Isis tells Channel 4 News he talked about jihad “all the time”.
The third ‘British jihadi’ who featured in an Isis recruitment video has apparently been identified, as details emerge of a hardline Islamic sect linked to recruits.
New pictures emerge showing the happy teenager who, only around a year later, would become a militant Islamic extremist.