Iraq
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Senior Iranian official says attacks were carried out in conjunction with Baghdad government and not US
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Two car bombs in the Shia district of Sadr City in Baghdad killed at least 15 people dead and injured 50
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Vulnerable Bijan Ebrahimi allegedly complained to police days before he was mistaken for a paedophile and killed
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Jamie Read reportedly felt compelled to act after jihadis killed aid volunteer from the UK
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Ambassador Stuart Jones says Iraq’s prime minister has given ‘the assurances that we need from the government’ on privileges for growing number of troops
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Commentary condemns western countries for arming anti-government movements fighting against Syrian government
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John Kerry insists international coalition’s strategy is working as Iran joins air strikes against Islamic State fighters
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The US military intelligence agency, the Pentagon, says Iran's airforce has carried out air strikes against Islamic State (Isis) targets in eastern Iraq
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Washington and Tehran deny coordination as part of US-led coalition against Islamic State
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Iraq says woman is sister of man convicted of bombings in south of country, not wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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After 20 years, murder still haunts journalism in the Middle East
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Kerry Drewery asks why there is an Iraq shaped void in teen and YA fiction and calls for more teen and YA books to be set in the Middle East to help young people understand the complexities of conflict
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Letters: Does this mean that people are being imprisoned now simply for thought crimes, for sharing an extremist ideology, rather than for what they do?
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Agreement will see share of military budget given to peshmerga fighters and boosts hopes of closer cooperation against jihadists
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State and Defense appear to differ on idea of creating buffer zone along Syria-Turkish border after reports cited possible concession to Turkey
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Missing soldiers explains rout of Iraqi forces in Mosul by Isis and city’s collapse in face of jihadis’ advance in June, say officials
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Gill Rosenberg reported to be among female fighters taken prisoner after former Israeli military pilot went to fight alongside Kurds
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Pontiff wraps up Turkey visit by addressing plight of Christians in Syria and iraq and calls for ‘constructive dialogue’ with Islam
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Series of US military air strikes hit Isis in Iraq and Syria as Syrian minister says Turkey must tighten border controls
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Pontiff calls for greater tolerance on visit to Turkey’s President Erdoğan, who has been criticised for authoritarian policies
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Analysis of 2m online posts found those originating in Europe were more favourable to Isis than those from frontline of conflict
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From King Abdullah down, officials are blunt about strategy to target supporters of movement wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria
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Letters: With the proposed counter-terrorism and security bill in the news it is surprising that the most effective and obvious way of curbing terrorism is rarely mentioned. That, of course, is to stop killing Muslims
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Opposition’s concerns over security bill focus on powers to seize passports of terror suspects and temporary exclusion orders
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Leo Benedictus: Last week he won the Save the Children legacy award, to the dismay of a number of the organisation’s staff. It’s not the first time he’s been a controversial winner
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Intelligence committee chair calls Facebook a ‘safe haven for terrorists’ but rights groups warn of creeping state surveillance
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Additions to the foreign fighters bill would also allow the sharing of intelligence on Australians fighting in Iraq
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Rumours abound that Hagel was forced out because his job of winding down US military engagement was rapidly becoming one of winding it back up again
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Former infantryman James Hughes, from Reading, and Jamie Read, from Lanarkshire, understood to be in Rojava, northern Syria
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Arms include AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds in plan to spend $24.1m, a fraction of $1.6bn requested to Congress
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Bodies were discovered after Iraqi army launched counter-offensive against Isis near capital of Anbar province
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Unconcerned with the wider facts, this gripping but incurious film of the ‘Devil of Ramadi’ decides to print the legend instead
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Though the Iraqi capital’s past as a cultural center is a distant memory, the music and ballet school has remained a cultural safe haven for its 500-odd students
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Thousands of tribal members from Iraq's Sunni heartland of Anbar train at an army camp in preparation for fighting Isis
First thoughts Britain and the US must help mend the Syrian refugee crisis they helped create