Islamic State Articles

Last week British members of parliament visited a Christian suburb of Mosul where Iraqi officers told us of the unprecedented unity between the Iraqi and Kurdish armies which once fought each other but are now closing on the common enemy of the Islamic State. That...

Last week I was fifty miles from Mosul in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq where life was fairly normal and safe although its calm was occasionally pierced by the sirens of ambulances speeding wounded soldiers to hospital and American helicopters...

The first priority of a government is defence of the realm, protecting the public from threats at home and abroad. In order to achieve, this maintaining an effective army, navy and airforce is essential. Britain currently faces two major threats: first is the rise of...

On Syria, Labour has been here before Next July marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. Over three years, General Francisco Franco’s nationalist army unleashed what became known as ‘the white terror’ as it sought not simply to conquer...