Britons in Syria

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.

Amer Deghahes, who is fighting in Syria with an al Qaeda- affiliated organisation, tells Channel 4 News he does not understand why the UK views British fighters as a threat.

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.

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.

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.

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, adviser to Syrian Presidency tells Channel 4 News that western reactions to Isis “are coming too little too late.” “The whole world should be against Isis,” she says.

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”.

Another young British Muslim has reportedly been killed fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, after an apparently normal life in the UK.

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.

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.

The scale of the crisis in Iraq has led many to wonder what was once unpalatable: would the country be more stable if Saddam Hussein had remained in power?