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• Asio knows what will raise the terror threat level: sending Australia to war

  12 Sep 2014: Kellie Tranter: Whatever the prime minister and Asio director-general say in public, the intelligence agency’s own reports show they know foreign wars are a real cause of radicalisation

• Seven key points from Obama's Isis speech and what they actually mean

  11 Sep 2014: US national security editor Spencer Ackerman breaks down the omissions, inversions and problems of Obama’s Isis speech

• Congress shrugs off legal concerns to support Obama over Isis offensive

  11 Sep 2014: John Boeher says president’s plans may not go far enough but insists ‘We ought to give the president what he’s asking for’

• A tale of two speeches: emboldened Obama moves from dove to hawk

  11 Sep 2014: A year ago, Obama told the nation he was stepping back from military intervention. On Wednesday, he made a starkly different announcement: what amounted to a declaration of war

• The last thing Iraq needs is more misguided military action by the west

  11 Sep 2014: Sami Ramadani: Past interventions helped create Isis and al-Qaida. Have Britain and the US not learned the lessons?

• Illegal? Irrational? Irrelevant? Obama's Isis address falls down on every front

  Interactive, 11 Sep 2014:

  Barack Obama's announcement last night about the war against the Islamic State (Isis) – which he prefers to call Isil – was filled with euphemisms, questionable statements, caveats, omissions and even the occasional truth. Here's an annotated version of the speech to serve as a guide to the fine print

• The Guardian view on President Obama’s plan to contain Isis

  11 Sep 2014: Editorial: The president offers a plan couched in terms of defending America and degrading Isis but he needs to add to it a diplomatic effort to help settle the Shia-Sunni conflict

• David Cameron overrules Philip Hammond on air strikes in Syria

  11 Sep 2014:

  Spokesman says Cameron hasn't ruled anything out after Hammond insisted that UK won't be taking part in strikes

• How the US targets Isis in Syria will reveal Barack Obama's true goals

  11 Sep 2014:

  Battling the jihadis in Syria without giving aid to Bashar al-Assad's regime will be a hugely complicated undertaking, writes Martin Chulov

• Barack Obama authorises air strikes against Isis militants in Syria

  11 Sep 2014: President announces in televised address that US will target Islamic State militants in Syria for the first time

• Obama puts Isis firmly in US sights but peace in Syria looks harder than before

  11 Sep 2014:

  Ian Black: Air strikes mean more support for rebels fighting to overthrow Assad but consequences of intervention are hard to predict

• Army's press team locked in an embrace with the 'dark arts' squad

  11 Sep 2014:

  Radical change as military seeks to control reporting

• Obama’s strategy to fight Isis cedes too much control

  11 Sep 2014: Afzal Ashraf: Involving regional countries in the conflict represents the most immature part of a risky US plan

• Australia would consider joining US air strikes in Iraq, says Tony Abbott

  11 Sep 2014: PM says ‘a specific request for military assistance hasn’t yet come’ but that if it does it would be considered

• Obama announces expanded air strikes against Isis in Iraq and Syria – speech live updates

  11 Sep 2014: President to outline new offensive to defeat jihadist group after meeting with advisers to consider air strikes inside Syria

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