Alibaba Bigger Than Facebook On Market Debut

Alibaba Boss Like A Rock Star At 'Epic' IPO Updated: 7:22pm UK, Friday 19 September 2014 By Hannah Thomas-Peter, New York Correspondent As Jack Ma swept past me on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, I asked him how he was feeling. He smiled...

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Kerry Says Iran Has A Role in Defeating IS

The Day I Came Face To Face With Islamic State Updated: 7:53am UK, Tuesday 16 September 2014 By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent I was told to wait on the side of a road outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Aleppo. An Emir speaking in the...

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Islamic State Releases Turkish Hostages In Iraq

Forty-nine Turkish hostages seized by Islamic State militants in Iraq have been freed in what Turkey's President described as a covert rescue operation. The hostages - including diplomatic staff, special forces soldiers and children - were taken from...

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New IS Video Shows Another British Hostage

British Muslims Plea For 'Mercy' For UK Hostage Updated: 8:39am UK, Thursday 18 September 2014 British Muslim leaders have united to call for the Islamic State extremist group to release the UK hostage Alan Henning. They have urged the militants to...

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Cantlie Video: New Tactic From Islamic State

I've never seen a hostage video like this before. Neither have the people I've spoken to with experience of these things. It is surreal and it represents a new tactic from Islamic State. As we have come to expect from this organisation, it is professionally...

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Obama's Syria Plan Clears Sceptical Senate

President Obama's plan to train and equip "moderate" Syrian rebels has passed Congress, despite misgivings among lawmakers. Syrian refugees crowd a Turkish border fence on Thursday The Senate backed the measure by 73 votes to 22, a day after it was...

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Obama Again Rules Out Iraq Combat Role For US

President Barack Obama has reiterated there will be no US combat troops in Iraq, a day after his top general raised that very possibility. Mr Obama spoke upon receiving an update from military chiefs at US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, about the...

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US General: Half Of Iraqi Army Not Capable

Around half of Iraq's army is incapable of working with the US to recapture territory from Islamic State (IS) in western and northern Iraq, according to the top US military officer. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said...

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IS Planned Beheading In Australia, PM Says

Fears supporters of Islamic State were planning to kidnap a random person and carry out a "demonstration killing" prompted Australia's largest ever anti-terror raids, the prime minister has said. Asked about reports that the planned attack involved...

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The Day I Came Face To Face With Islamic State

I was told to wait on the side of a road outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Aleppo. An Emir speaking in the mosque would see me after prayers. As hundreds of worshippers streamed through the open doors, a young man with long, black hair emerged...

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Syrian Politician Warns US Over IS Action

The Day I Came Face To Face With Islamic State Updated: 7:53am UK, Tuesday 16 September 2014 By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent I was told to wait on the side of a road outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Aleppo. An Emir speaking in the...

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General: US Ground Troops Possible In Iraq

America's top military leader has said US ground forces could be deployed again in Iraq, three years after they left the country. Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate panel that he would make the recommendation...

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The Day I Came Face To Face With Islamic State

I was told to wait on the side of a road outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Aleppo. An Emir speaking in the mosque would see me after prayers. As hundreds of worshippers streamed through the open doors, a young man with long, black hair emerged...

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US Takes Fight To Islamic State Militants

American warplanes have struck an Islamic State target southwest of Baghdad as the US stepped up the offensive against the terror group. The US military said it carried out two airstrikes on Sunday and Monday in support of Iraqi forces being attacked...

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Ebola: US Sending 3,000 Troops To West Africa

The US is sending up to 3,000 troops to West Africa to co-ordinate the response to the ebola outbreak. The virus has claimed more than 2,200 lives this year - mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. US President Barack Obama is set to outline measures...

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Australian Special Forces Join Fight Against IS

Australia will send 600 troops - including special forces - and 10 military aircraft to the Middle East to bolster international efforts to fight the "death cult" of Islamic State. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the commitment comes after a formal...

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PM: We Will 'Hunt Down' David Haines' Killers

David Cameron has vowed that Britain will "hunt down" those responsible for the murder of British aid worker David Haines and bring them to justice. Speaking from Downing Street after chairing a meeting of Cobra, Mr Cameron described Islamic State extremists...

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Global Push To Combat IS After UK Beheading

International efforts to combat Islamic State militants have taken on added urgency after the beheading of a British aid worker and the threat to kill a second UK hostage. The brutal murder of David Haines comes amid moves to form a broad coalition...

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