Syria’s Descent

It was an attack that was shocking in both its scale and ruthless targeting.

Syrian State TV says at least 39 people have been killed in what it claims was a suicide car bomb attack on buses evacuating families from towns and villages under rebel siege.

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has cancelled a planned trip to Moscow tomorrow, saying Russia’s continued defence of President Assad after the chemical weapons attack was “deplorable”.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of an “act of aggression against a sovereign nation” after its missile strike on Syria.

A Briton who was a leading developer of the online currency Bitcoin and projected as a future billionaire, has been under police investigation for going to Syria to fight against the Islamic State group.

David Cameron says the government has kept its promise to resettle 1,000 people fleeing war-torn Syria before Christmas.

In footage exclusively obtained by Channel 4 News, Mohammed Emwazi is pictured at school in 2004, as people who knew him reflect on how he became Jihadi John.

The Kray twins, Bond-style spy capers, scandalous MPs and the threat of imminent nuclear destruction all feature in previously classified documents from the 1950s released by the National Archives.

Anti-Assad rebels being trained and supplied by America have handed over some of their equipment to Islamists affiliated to al-Qaeda, according to the US military.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad admits his forces are suffering from a “shortfall in human capacity” as Turkey launches airstrikes against the Islamic State group.

Australia’s government is trying to confirm that an Australian teenager was among Islamic State suicide bombers in central Iraq. PM Tony Abbott called the reports “absolutely horrific”.