A mobile phone video has emerged online that appears to show Islamic State (IS) militants torturing and abusing a 14-year-old Syrian boy.
The leader of Jabhat al-Nusrah, al-Qaeda’s official offshoot in Syria, has ordered his network of Islamic militants not to use Syria as a base from which to launch attacks on the West.
A video has emerged online where the chief of Tajikistan special forces, Gulmurod Khalimov, claim to have joined the Islamic State (IS).
Islamic State (IS) militants have taken control of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra.
As ever more young Britons head to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State, the government is left desperately seeking a strategy to combat the lure of recruitment to jihad.