The beheading of journalist James Foley by an IS militant with a British accent as renewed calls for greater anti-terror powers, but these laws are yet another affront on basic human rights in the UK.
Britain will not work with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to fight militants from Islamic State (formerly ISIS), the foreign secretary has said.
The US have launched a series of new air strikes against Islamic State (formerly ISIS) militants in Iraq, despite threat from the group that they will execute another US captive.
There are believed to be around 500 British jihadi fighters in Syria and Iraq – what makes some British Muslims turn to jihad?
Over the past 12 hours Twitter has suspended dozens of accounts that had been disseminating the Islamic State propaganda video showing the beheading of US journalist James Foley.