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UK’s Iraq deployment – thin end of wedge?
A few dozen UK soldiers are going to train Iraqis, but if a third country can be found to host a bigger training programme, many more might be heading abroad to boost Iraqi expertise.
The wife of the Japanese journalist being held hostage by the Islamic State group releases her first plea to the governments of Japan and Jordan as a deadline for his release approaches.
The latest deadline set by IS regarding the fate of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian pilot passes, but there is no news about either of them.
The leader of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group calls for international help as a snowstorm strikes, killing at least five people and bringing misery to thousands.
Islamic State militants say they have shot down a plane in Syria and taken the Jordanian pilot prisoner. Jordan confirms that one of its pilots is being held.
A few dozen UK soldiers are going to train Iraqis, but if a third country can be found to host a bigger training programme, many more might be heading abroad to boost Iraqi expertise.
British Tornado fighter jets fly into Iraq ready to carry out air strikes against the Islamic State group, but the Ministry of Defence says no targets were hit in the first approved combat operation.
Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic preacher deported from Britain after an eight-year legal battle, is released from prison after being found not guilty of terrorism offences.
In the early hours of the morning, US air strikes targeted Islamic State and other Islamist groups in Syria for the first time. Channel 4 News asks whether it is legal, and where it might end.
The threats from Islamic State and the Russian intervention in Ukraine have changed the mood at the Nato summit as leaders face a dangerous new world reality.
Radical cleric Abu Qatada is acquitted of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism – but the verdict has not been seen as a surprise in Jordan.
Jordan’s state security court acquits radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says the US will not delay in helping Iraq defeat the Isis insurgency.
Loathed by Palestinians and a divisive figure in Israel, Ariel Sharon played a part in six decades of conflict in the Middle East.
As Egyptians get deja vu at the trial of another deposed president, a Channel 4 News interactive graphic looks at what has happened more than two and a half years on from the Arab Spring.
As Barack Obama says he is “confident” congress will vote in favour of military action in Syria, Channel 4 News explores the relationships between Syria, her Middle Eastern neighbours, and the west.