A 25-year-old woman has been arrested at Luton airport on suspicion of Syria-related terror offences.
A freighter intercepted while heading towards the Italian coast on autopilot with almost a thousand migrants on board was sold to a Syrian citizen two weeks ago, Channel 4 News has learned.
Kurdish peshmerga forces fight back Islamic State militants from Mount Sinjar on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, freeing hundreds of Yazidis trapped by IS.
Turkish police make at least 23 arrests during raids on a newspaper and TV station with close ties to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. The chief editor of the Zaman daily is among those held.
Former British soldiers are reportedly in northern Syria battling the Islamic State group alongside Kurdish fighters – but who are they? And what happens when they come back?
Alex Thomson
The need for proper investigation of Serena’s death is obvious and pressing and should happen at once. Conclusions without evidence are wrong, stupid and distasteful.
Why has Russia radically increased military flights on Nato’s borders – and how worried should we be?
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.
The defenders of the Syrian Kurdish town claim to have repulsed waves of attacks by Islamic State militants, as pressure grows on Turkey to intervene.
Turkish anarchists, who made headlines around the world during the battle for Taksim Square, have decamped to the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani to support the fight against the Islamic State.
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.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani is about to fall to Islamic State militants.
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.
Jonathan Rugman
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.
Jonathan Rugman
The controversy over bombing inside Syria has left one town appealing for foreign help. Kurdish militia defending Kobane say they need coordinated air strikes to stop the IS advance.