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.
Iraqi militant leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man and a key force behind the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq, has been killed.
During the US war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands died the sort of deaths that, if broadcast in an Islamic State video, would have inflamed international opinion.