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.
Jonathan Rugman
Ibrahim Hassan Al-Asiri can lay claim to being the most world’s most dangerous man. And he has been linked to bomb fears which have seen the US step up airport security.
The leader of an al-Qaeda faction in Yemen has urged Muslims to back rival Islamist faction Isis – evidence of a deep split in the ranks of the extremists.
US Ambassador Robert Ford says people who say it’s impossible to tell the between good and bad rebels in Syria are being “intellectually lazy.” “We should be supporting moderate groups,” he says.
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”.
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.
Iraqi forces are gathering north of Baghdad, aiming to strike back at Sunni Islamists whose drive toward the capital has prompted the United States to send military advisers to the country.
Volunteers who fight alongside Iraq’s security forces will be given 750,000 Dinars (£375) per month, the country’s prime minister says, as battles rage for control of the country’s largest oil field.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum charts the origins of crisis in Iraq – from the ousting of Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, through the consolidation of Shia power, and resulting in more bloodshed.
“Military intervention? Not again please”: Lakhdar Brahimi, former UN representative in Iraq, disputes Tony Blair’s analysis of the conflict there and says before the 2003 invasion Isis did not exist.
Violent insurgency in Iraq is the “predictable” result of the west’s failure to intervene in Syria, not of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair declares in a renewed call for military action.
Islamist militant group Isis makes further gains in Iraq, seizing Tikrit – the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein – 95 miles north of Baghdad.
Islamic militants take control of Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, prompting the country’s prime minister to call for a state of emergency to be declared.
On Saturday, suspected suicide bombers struck a restaurant popular with westerners in Djibouti. Three people died and more than a dozen were injured, including European nationals.