Iraq war

Sir John Chilcot tells MPs his long-awaited report on the Iraq war will be released as soon as possible and denies he was put under pressure to delay publication because of the election.

Sir John Chilcot tells MPs on the foreign affairs committee his inquiry’s report into the Iraq war will be published as soon as possible, but not before the election.

Plaid Cymru’s Elfyn Llwyd says the ongoing wait for the Chilcot report is an “expensive farce and an affront to democracy” in a Westminster debate over the inquiry’s delays.

The long awaited Chilcot report into Britain’s role in the Iraq war – intended to be published at the end of 2012 – will now not be released until after the general election, government sources say.

Sir John Chilcot, the chairman of the inquiry into the Iraq war, provokes controversy after saying his report will not be published until after the May election – six years after he began his work.

The lawyer for a Guantanamo inmate says fear after the Paris attacks risks giving governments a licence to implement the sort of anti-terror legislation that saw her client wrongly detained.

Investigators deliver a damning indictment of CIA interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks. Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein calls the findings a stain on America’s history.

MPs meet to debate whether to accept the Iraqi government’s request for air strikes to support operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq.

The UK is on the path to war with Islamic State militants as David Cameron recalls parliament to debate military intervention in Iraq, and warns Britain must not be “frozen with fear”.

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.

Last week, we spoke Abu Rumauysah about British citizens who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State. During the interview, we challenged him on the use of beheading videos by IS.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari tells Channel 4 News friends of the country should support its battle against the Islamic State by carrying out air strikes against the militants.

The west’s actions in Iraq have a dual agenda, says International Editor Lindsey Hilsum: one, to protect the people threatened by the Islamic State, the other to safeguard American interests.