Islamic State

Loretta Napoleoni, an expert on terrorist financing who advises several governments and international organisations on counter-terrorism, and the journalist Graeme Wood, who has written extensively about the motivations behind IS.

Iraqi troops backed by the United States have siezed control of Mosul university from so-called Islamic State militants.

The three-month battle to recapture the city of Mosul, the last major stronghold of Islamic State militants in Iraq, is gathering pace.

A British man has been killed fighting the Islamic State group in Syria.Twenty-year-old Ryan Lock, a former chef  with no military experience, travelled to the country to fight alongside Kurdish militia known as the YPG.

Sixteen suspects have now been arrested by Turkish police following the attack on an Istanbul nightclub, but the gunman who killed 39 people remains at large.

Islamic State militants say they were responsible for the new year gun attack that killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub – calling it revenge for Turkish attacks on IS targets inside Syria.  Turkish police say they’ve made eight arrests in connection with the shootings, but that the gunman himself is still at large.

Photographer Issa Touma watched and filmed from a window as young, armed men dragged sandbags to block the end of the narrow road alongside his Aleppo apartment. It was August 2012 and the beginning of the uprising that turned into a bloody civil war. Now his footage, compiled under the title “9 Days from my…

Two explosions have killed at least 28 in a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.  The so-called Islamic state say their combatants targeted shoppers in the Shia district with a car bomb followed by a suicide bomber.

Jon Snow interviews journalist Rania Abouzeid, who has reported extensively on the Syrian conflict, former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, and Dr David Nott, a British surgeon who has been working with medical teams to save the lives of the seriously wounded in Aleppo.