Iraq

Beheaded US journalist shares childhood memories and hoped to be freed by Islamic captors.

SAS and Special Reconnaissance Regiment troops are hunting Isis in Iraq and Syria using hi-tech equipment.

Foreign Secretary says Sunni insurgents could use areas in Iraq and Syria to launch terror attacks on the West.

Isis is reportedly selling stolen crude oil at less than half the global market rate in black markets.

Weekly prayers targeted by suicide bomber and gunmen in Diyala province

Irish intelligence officers closely watching 30 jihadi fighters travelling to Iraq and Syria

First known case of stoning by terror group takes place in Iraq

Al-Baghdadi forced to escape from Mosul after US airstrikes kill several top IS commanders.

Freed French journalist Didier François speaks of beatings and fake executions at hands of Isis.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono calls on Islamic leaders to unite against Islamic State terror group.

Pentagon admits it had carried out a failed rescue operation to rescue journalist James Foley and other hostages in Syria.

US to continue fight against terror group despite murder of James Foley.

US drones and aircraft launch dozen strikes in northern Iraq, says official.

German development aid minister Gerd Mueller accuses Qatar of funding Isis.

In video message, Sunni insurgents warn US against raids in Iraq as Obama vows to press ahead with offensive.

Public support for RAF air strikes in Iraq only 40% while 36% disapprove.

Brent crude is back near a thirteen-week-low as Kurds in Iraq have recaptured most of the big oil sources from the Islamist militants, easing supply worries.

CIA and elite soldiers search for 'The Ghost' in biggest terror search since Bin Laden

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon made the announcement as RAF makes surveillance flights and troops deployed in Erbil.

Without directly mentioning US, Iraqi government takes objection to violation of its territorial sovereignty.

Kurdish forces reclaim nearly all of Iraq's largest dam from Islamic State militants, Kurdish officials reported.

Islamic State Sunni insurgents massacre 80 Yazidi men near Sinjar Mountain after deadline to convert Islam expires.

Maliki paves way for successor, Haider al-Abadi, in order to 'preserve unity' in Iraq.

Doubts cast over Australian station's 'exclusive' interview with Islamic State military chief talking about 'caliphate'.

President Francois Hollande announces arms supply to Kurds "in the coming hours".

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says this is not military intervention but an effort to assist Iraqi forces.

Isis brainwashing people with female vigilante squads and 'Osama bin Laden Cub Camps'

Yazidis flee across Iraqi-Syrian border despite civil war which has claimed more than 170,000 lives.

Supporters of radical Islam split between love of actor's films and dislike of his hertical stand-up.

With the dam in their control, the Islamic State can flood Baghdad if it wants to.