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Have we learned from 9/11? From my own experience reporting sporadically across the region for over three decades, my fear is that we have not.
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World leaders back military measures to help defeat Islamic State fighters in Iraq – but make no mention of the tougher diplomatic challenge in Syria.
Have we learned from 9/11? From my own experience reporting sporadically across the region for over three decades, my fear is that we have not.
Islamic State releases a slick new propaganda video showing the massacre of Bashar al-Assad’s 93rd brigade in Raqqa in August.
It began as an offshoot of Al-Qaeda barely 18 months ago. Now Islamic State are more successful than Al-Qaeda ever were, with over 10,000 men under their command – and a self -declared caliphate in which to fight.
Amid the rise of and widespread exhibition of the vile inhumanity of the Islamic State, has been the tender opening of dialogue between two vast regional enemies – Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The timing of the release of the latest Islamic State video, showing Steven Sotloff’s murder, suggests the lives of other western hostages could be at risk.
To America, the Middle East is like a balloon. If you squeeze it in one corner it will bulge in another. You just can’t be sure where.
The barbarians are inside the property. The task is urgent, but the changes needed will take many months and years. Haider al-Abadi has an all but impossible task.
The European Union welcomes moves by member states, including the UK, to supply arms and ammunition to Kurdish fighters trying to halt the advance of Islamist militants in Iraq.
David Cameron says “detailed plans are now being put in place” for an international mission to Iraq but will they be enough to help the thousands of Yazidi refugees still stranded on Mount Sinar?
A suicide bomber attacks a checkpoint near the home of new Iraqi prime minister designate Haider al-Abadi, as he begins his efforts to unite the country against jihadi militants.
There are so many different power blocs and interest groups in Iraq and Syria that it is almost impossible to predict where events might lead.
Star-gazers take selfies of the phenomenon known as the “supermoon” – an unusually large and bright moon when its orbit point is closest to the earth.
Iraq’s president asks Haider al-Abadi, deputy parliamentary speaker, to form a new government – a move that will be resisted by incumbent prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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.