Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.

Iraq faces an uncertain future as the last US military units hand over control to local forces, amid continuing political uncertainty and sectarian violence.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the uncertain future facing Iraq and the wider region as US troops prepare to withdraw from the country at the end of this month.

A petition calling for a UK trial for a terror suspect who has been detained without charge for seven years reaches 100,000 signatures, meaning the case can be debated in parliament.

"After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over." President Obama has announced all US troops will be brought home by the end of this year.

Exclusive: The army's top lawyer during the Iraq war tells Channel 4 News his superiors blocked him when he tried to make British forces treat prisoners in a lawful way, writes Callum Macrae.

The man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day 2009 by detonating a bomb in his underpants pleads guilty to all charges against him.