The US and five Arab states have launched the first air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets within Syria.
The US has negotiated support from ten Arab states to help them tackle the threat of the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been found not guilty of conspiracy to carry out 1998 terrorist plot by a Jordanian court.
Aid workers are struggling to understand fluctuating Syrian refugee flows into Jordan in recent weeks. The government insists the border remains open, but refugees tell harrowing stories of being turned back.
The Court of Appeal has rejected the home secretary Theresa May’s attempt to overturn the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision to block radical cleric Abu Qatada’s deportation to Jordan.