Coalition's Plans For IS Fight Look Cowardly

America has succeeded in putting together a 37-nation coalition against the Islamic State (IS). Who does what within it is to be confirmed. All signatories to the agreement struck in Jeddah, at the Nato summit in Wales, and in phone calls over the last...

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Islamic State May Have 31,500 Fighters, Says CIA

The Islamic State (IS) may have as many as 31,500 fighters in Syria and Iraq - three times higher than previously feared, the CIA believes. A review of intelligence reports from May to August estimates the militant group can muster between 20,000 and...

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Family Of UK Hostage Tell IS Captors: Contact Us

British Aid Worker Held By IS Militants Updated: 6:10pm UK, Thursday 04 September 2014 David Cawthorne Haines is an aid worker with more than a decade of experience in areas including South Sudan, Libya and the former Yugoslavia. A father-of-two,...

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Islamic State May Have 31,500 Fighters, Says CIA

The Islamic State (IS) may have as many as 31,500 fighters in Syria and Iraq - three times higher than previously feared, the CIA believes. A review of intelligence reports from May to August estimates the militant group can muster between 20,000 and...

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US Campaign Against IS A Work In Progress

Key Arab allies of the US have pledged to "do their share" to fight the Islamic State group. But, strikingly, the country with the biggest border adjacent to Islamic State-conquered territory is not on board. Turkey's unwillingness to sign up to the...

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Oscar Pistorius Set To Hear Homicide Verdict

Oscar Pistorius is in court to hear whether he will be found guilty of culpable homicide for killing his girlfriend. The double amputee broke down in the Pretoria courtroom yesterday as he was cleared of two murder charges over the shooting. But he...

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Ukraine 'Regrouping' Forces To Defend East

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says his forces are "regrouping" in the east of the country after provocation from Russian "terrorists". The move does not amount to a new offensive against pro-Moscow separatists, but is simply a move to defend...

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US Strategy Risks Pushing Sunnis Into IS Arms

US To Lead 'Broad Coalition' To Destroy IS Updated: 8:06am UK, Thursday 11 September 2014 Barack Obama has authorised airstrikes in Syria for the first time in a major escalation of the military campaign against the Islamic State. In a live televised...

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US Threatens Airstrikes In Syria To Fight IS

Barack Obama IS Strategy: Speech In Full Updated: 2:20am UK, Thursday 11 September 2014 Barack Obama has outlined his strategy to defeating Islamic State in a televised address. Here is his statement in full: My fellow Americans - tonight, I want...

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Ukraine 'Regrouping' Forces To Defend East

Ukraine Residents Trapped Between Battle Lines Updated: 11:01pm UK, Tuesday 09 September 2014 By Katie Stallard, in Mariupol, Ukraine We met a 78-year-old woman pulling a small cart piled with belongings. She told us they had been hiding in a...

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Bribes Of Cash And Guns To Tackle IS Jihadis

Washington is on the move. From dither to decision to deliberation and even direction, it's been a frustrating process to behold. But it may, in the end, provide a map through the minefield of the Middle East that is at least navigable. Past failures...

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UK To Send Machine Guns And Ammo To Iraq

Britain is sending £1.6m of military kit, including heavy machine guns, to Iraq to help fight Islamic State militants. Announcing the decision in a written statement, Michael Fallon, the Secretary of State for Defence, said the equipment would be used...

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Ukraine Conflict 'Impossible' To Win Militarily

By Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told Sky News the conflict in his country cannot be solved by military means alone. Speaking in the southern city of Mariupol, close to the frontline between his forces...

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Obama In Iraq Talks Over IS 'Common Enemy'

Barack Obama has held talks with Iraq's new Prime Minister to discuss the country's fledgling new government's fight against Islamic State militants. In a telephone call on Monday, the US President and Haider al Abadi spoke about the need to address...

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Report Into Downing Of MH17 Set For Release

Dutch authorities are expected to publish a preliminary report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 later. The Netherlands is co-ordinating criminal investigations into the July 17 disaster by multiple countries, including Ukraine,...

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Obama Vows To Defeat IS Amid New Airstrikes

President Barack Obama has vowed to defeat the Islamic State hours after the United States launched fresh airstrikes against the militant group in Iraq. The latest aerial raids were around Haditha Dam, the first time the US has targeted the IS insurgents...

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Fresh Fighting Threatens Ukraine Ceasefire

Residents Fearful Amid Fragile Ukraine Truce Updated: 12:15pm UK, Sunday 07 September 2014 By Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent, in Mariupol On the outskirts of Mariupol you could see the remains of Ukrainian artillery still smouldering. We...

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Has Prostate Surgery

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is recovering in hospital after having prostate surgery, state media has said. The country's official news agency, IRNA, described the operation which took place this morning as "routine" and said it was...

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Residents Fearful Amid Fragile Ukraine Truce

Deep Divisions Amid Fragile Ukraine Peace Updated: 12:27pm UK, Saturday 06 September 2014 By Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent in Mariupol Ceasefire is a temporary state. It's not the same as lasting peace. What has been agreed so far is a...

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Shelling Heard Near Donetsk In East Ukraine

Shelling has been heard near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine despite a ceasefire, witnesses report. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the area on Sunday morning, threatening the fragile truce. Explosions have also been heard on the edge...

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Iraq: US Launches Airstrikes Around Vital Dam

The US has launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam, targeting Islamic State (IS) militants in the area for the first time. IS, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL, is trying to capture the vital dam in the west of the country. US officials say that...

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