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Iraq: why this isn’t 2003 all over again
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
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The Pakistani Taliban is reported to have pledged to send fighters to support the Islamic State group in the fight against the “enemies who are united against you”.
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
The kidnap and threatened murder of British aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State (IS) militants is not permissible under sharia law, prominent Muslim clerics have warned.
Isis is urging followers to carry out public beheadings, says Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. How did the country become a target and how do counter-terrorism officials respond?
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.
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.
A US man was left gasping for air for almost two hours after his lethal injection execution went wrong, leading to calls for the return of the firing squad.
Al-Shabaab militants, who threatened to step up attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, say they were behind a blast that killed four people near the Somali parliament building.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the self-styled leader of a new global jihad. On Tuesday he urged followers to “embrace this change” in a recording posted online. So what do we think we know about him?
Isis fighters in Iraq have declared themselves masters of a new caliphate. But their vision of a medieval-style religious state is based on false view of early Islamic history, according to experts.
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.
Islamic extremists release a recruitment video which features British fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham calling for UK Muslims to join the “ranks of the mujaheddin” in Iraq.
Pakistani fighter jets bomb suspected Taliban hideouts in the tribal North Waziristan region after the attack on the country’s busiest airport a week ago, according to reports.
Fifa President Sepp Blatter is under pressure in Brazil and at home in Switzerland to prove that his organisation is fit for purpose.