Jonathan Miller
Iraq: why this isn’t 2003 all over again
The legality of any future British air strikes on Iraq may be clear – but the justification for US intervention in neighbouring Syria is much less obvious.
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FactCheck: another illegal war in Iraq?
British pilots could be in action over Iraq again soon. Is the legal case for military action stronger than the last time around?
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Jonathan Miller
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Kylie Morris
IS top of the agenda at UN
President Obama arrives at the UN to deliver nothing less than a call to war against extremism. Exhorting nations to join the United States in its campaign against the jihadists of the Islamic State.
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Kylie Morris
US air strikes: Obama lured into Syria’s civil war
The expansion of the US-led air war to Syria is a powerful display of America’s bona fides to the allies it says it needs for the fight against Islamic State.
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Kylie Morris
US seeks ‘bandwidth’ to deal with IS, Ebola and the Ukraine crisis
Achieving a unified approach in dealing with the threat from Islamic State is one of several challenges facing the US at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
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Jonathan Rugman
Does new IS video offer some sort of grim good news?
The latest Islamic State film, of Briton John Cantlie, does not show his last moments. Is this a major change in the jihadist group’s tactics?
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Second British hostage held by Islamic State named
The second British hostage held by Islamic State militants is named as Alan Henning by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Cameron promises to tackle Islamic State after David Haines murder
The UK will take whatever steps are necessary to combat the Islamic militants responsible for the murder of British aid worker David Haines, the Prime Minister David Cameron says.
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Jon Snow
Our obligation to the memory of the victims of 9/11
Have we learned from 9/11? From my own experience reporting sporadically across the region for over three decades, my fear is that we have not.
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Kylie Morris
A monumentally important moment in the Obama presidency
With US public opinion increasingly favouring intervention against Islamic State militants, how far is President Obama prepared to go in his speech to the nation tonight?
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Matt Frei
Why there are fewer jihadis from the US than Britain
The authorities think that America has spawned several dozen jihadis as opposed to Britain’s several hundred. This is because America has a totally different relationship to its ethnic minorities.
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Lindsey Hilsum
James Foley: the danger is this murder will not be the last
Nothing is happening by chance. If we characterise militants from Islamic State as simply barbaric and savage we are failing to understand their strategy or the extent of the danger they pose.
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Why we shouldn’t share – or view – the video of James Foley’s murder
We don’t need to see the brutal footage of the murder of journalist James Foley to know that his death was wrong. But by refusing to share it, we can diminish its propaganda value.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Islamic State: how western policy is scrambling to catch up
Some say the US and Europe should, while holding their noses, embrace Assad. That may not only be distasteful but also self-defeating: Assad has engineered this situation.
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Iraq’s Christian refugees: ‘They are bewildered’
I’ve been down to the St Joseph Church in Irbil, where Christians from Mosul and Qaraqosh are seeking sanctuary. They told us how the mere sound of the Islamic State made them flee their homes.