Syria’s Descent

Prime Minister David Cameron says it “looks increasingly likely” that US journalist James Foley was murdered by a British citizen, but the killer has not been identified.

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”.

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.

Dozens of people are killed, including at least two children, when a car bomb explodes in the Syrian town of Douma just north east of the capital Damascus, according to activists.

The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog tells Channel 4 News it is an “open question” if hidden chemical weapons remain in Syria, two days after the last shipment was supposed to have left.

Sunni militants seize an Iraqi crossing on the border with Syria after a day-long battle in which they killed some 30 Iraqi troops, security officials claim.

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?

President Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to win a third seven-year term in office, as Syrians head to the polls in the middle of a civil war that has killed more than 160,000 people.

Rebels begin withdrawing from the city of Homs – a central battleground in the Syrian civil war, once known as the “capital of the revolution” – in a major symbolic victory for Bashar al-Assad.

William Hague says reports that chemical weapons have once again been used against the people of Syria are “utterly sickening”.

Hundreds of foreigners could unknowingly be fighting for President Assad following reports of a deal struck between the regime and extremist group Isis.

Counter-terror police launch an unprecedented campaign to persuade British Muslim women to inform on family members planning to travel to Syria to fight.

Channel 4 News speaks to a couple from Essex who say they have left their old lives behind to become charity workers on the front line in Syria’s civil war.

Two Spanish journalists kidnapped by an al-Qaeda-linked militant group for more than six months have been reunited with their families.