Jonathan Rugman
First film from ground level of RAF strike in Iraq
We don’t know if there were civilian casualties: the peshmerga said they feared the jihadists had forced women to accompany them as human shields.
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Devout Shia Muslims self-flagellate on holy day
Shia Muslims in Pakistan, Iraq, and Lebanon take part in a self-flagellation ritual on the holy day of Ashoura. (Warning: graphic images)
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British soldiers train Iraqi Kurds to take on IS
The first footage is released of British troops in Iraq. A 12-strong team from the Yorkshire Regiment trains Kurdish peshmerga fighters how to use heavy machine guns against the Islamic State group.
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FactCheck: should jihadis be tried for treason?
Ministers are talking about reviving the ancient laws of treason to deal with jihadis. What is treason and should it make a comeback?
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Could IS really have its own air force?
Iraqi pilots are defecting and training Islamic State to fly MiG fighter planes, observers say. But how real is the prospect of an IS air force?
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Damascus to Aleppo: a roadtrip through war’s wasteland
The world is watching Islamic State group: but the war in Syria between rebels and President Assad is as being waged as fiercely as ever, as Lindsey Hilsum reports from the shattered city of Aleppo.
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Halting the Islamic State advance
US President Barack Obama meets military leaders from 20 countries to tackle Islamic State in Iraq, after recent IS gains in Anbar province where an Iraqi military base was seized.
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IS militants in Kobani: ‘people are living in total fear’
A Kobani activist tells Channel 4 News that thousands are trapped inside the Syrian Kurdish town being attacked by Islamic State group, and will be “massacred” if the militants are able to enter.
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Kobani about to fall to Islamic State, says Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani is about to fall to Islamic State militants.
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Islamic State moves to take Kobani on Syria-Turkey border
More than 2,000 Syrian Kurds are evacuating the Kurdish town of Kobani, near the border between Syria and Turkey, as Islamic State militants advance towards the city centre.
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‘There is an effeminacy in the western world’
Mike Scheuer, a former senior CIA operations officer and Jonathan Powell, chief negotiator on Northern Ireland under Tony Blair, debate how to deal with the Islamic State group.
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‘We are with you’: new allies for Islamic State
The Pakistani Taliban is reported to have pledged to send fighters to support the Islamic State group in the fight against the “enemies who are united against you”.
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Jonathan Rugman
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Theresa May’s comments on IS and WMDs ’embellish the threat’
The Home Secretary warns that if they are not disrupted, the Islamic State group could acquire weapons of mass destruction – but has that threat been ‘sexed up’?
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Watch the missiles fall: British jets hit IS in Iraq
Channel 4 News witnesses RAF fighter jets carry out an air strike in Iraq as part of the US-led mission against the Islamic State group, as British forces ramp up their campaign.
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Jonathan Rugman
British strikes on Islamic State group begin: the view from Iraq
As RAF Tornados carry out their first strikes against Islamic State militants, I report on what this means on the ground from Dohuk, northern Iraq.
