British jihad

Many British women who leave to join the Islamic State group are being lured by British jihadi brides already there, according to report on radicalisation.

A 15-year-old, 17-year-old and 19-year-old from north-west London arrested at Istanbul airport and returned to UK, while an 18-year-old is arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of travelling to Syria.

Two brothers who were arrested in Calais trying to get back into Britain have been jailed after admitting to conspiring to attend a terror training camp in Syria.

The suspected Derby suicide bomber Kabir Ahmed told his mother in a phone call from Syria that he would see her in heaven, a family member tells Channel 4 News.

Another British Muslim from Portsmouth is killed fighting with Islamic State militants, in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.

The parents of Yusra Hussien, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Bristol thought to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State extremists, have made an emotional plea for her to return.

Twitter is investigating after an Islamic State user issued a direct call for the assassination of Twitter employees over the firm’s suspension of IS accounts.

With America’s most senior general calling for the military offensive against Islamic State to be broadened, some are asking if our enemy’s enemy – Syria’s President Assad – should now be our friend.

In his last article before he was kidnapped, James Foley reported on the “increasingly violent” Syrian opposition, which had been “deeply infiltrated by both foreign fighters and terrorist groups”.

Two men plead guilty to travelling to Syria to join al-Qaeda militants, after they were turned in to police by their worried parents. Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni reports.

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.

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”.

In a live Channel 4 News debate, a jihadi trainer says he is “looking into Isis” but his main aim is ridding Syria of Assad, while a British aid worker warns “someone’s going to lash out” in the UK.

Owen Jones tells Channel 4 News and Blair’s former advisor, John McTernan, that western intervention in Iraq would make things worse.

Counter-terror police launch an unprecedented campaign to persuade British Muslim women to inform on family members planning to travel to Syria to fight.