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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?
Jonathan Rugman
So far today I have only seen one Iraqi helicopter take off; the others were deployed on bombing missions against IS jihadists. Instead of being loaded with water, they were armed with rockets.
Lindsey Hilsum
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.
Lindsey Hilsum
As long as Nouri al Maliki refuses to step down, the Iraqi government is doing no governing at all, let alone getting a grip on the military disaster to the north.
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.
Another young British Muslim has reportedly been killed fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, after an apparently normal life in the UK.
Barack Obama says airstrikes in Iraq destroyed arms and equipment that Islamic State insurgents could have used to attack Irbil, but warns the current operation could take some time.
US military aircraft conduct their first airstrikes against the Islamic State – the militant jihadi group that controls much of Iraq, as stranded refugees beg for international assistance.
Alex Thomson
Thousands of Iraqis, predominantly from the minority Yazidi ethnic and Christian groups, have fled to mountainous regions to escape an advance by Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq.
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.
Religious leaders call on British Muslims not to go to Syria or Iraq for jihad, amid rising fears of radicalisation in the conflicts which could spread across the globe.
Iraqi troops battle to dislodge an al-Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state across the Syria-Iraq border.
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
Sunni rebels in Iraq claim they have fully captured the country’s main oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad.
Lindsey Hilsum
Sheikh Mustafa Jboori has seen enough strife in Iraq, but thinks the current crisis is worse than 2006 – and Saddam Hussein.