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Air strikes on little-known group alleged to be al-Qaida affiliate raise questions about expansion of US air war in Syria and Iraq
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Syrian resistance groups criticise Obama administration’s ‘Iraq-first’ strategy as a de facto alliance with Bashar al-Assad while Isis consolidates influence in Anbar province
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Saleh, believed by some to be orchestrating Houthi rebel uprising, rejected purported demand to leave country by Friday or face international sanctions
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UN report suggests decline of al-Qaida has yielded an explosion of jihadist enthusiasm for its even mightier successor organisations, chiefly Isis
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Jaffar Deghayes described as ‘an honourable man helping fight an oppressive tyrant’
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He tells of prolonged torture in his Syrian cell
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